Lot 4: the bidding action heats up early, bloodstock agent Aiden Murphy and owner Trevor Hemmings, who flew in this morning, go head to head for this filly by Walk In The Park.

The opposing parties were standing on opposing sides of the sale ring, with Murphy on the stairs by the sale ring entrance, and he was the one who was proved victorious at €40,000.

Sold by Crohane Stud the bay filly is the second foal out of the placed Oscar mare Kalico Kalista, a full-sister to the Grade 2-placed pair of Coverholder and Not Many Left. It is the further family of Harbour Pilot, winner of the Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase and Grade 1 Supreme Novices' Hurdle runner-up Get Me Out Of Here.

Murphy signed for M K Bloodstock. (10:48)

Lot 28A: "He is a smashing horse, I really liked him and Telescope has been going well," reported Pierce Power after signing for Galgystown Stables at €30,000 for the first foal out of Mariet (Dr Fong).

"He is for a syndicate of uncles and cousins and is the first horse they have had together – hopefully we will get to Cheltenham next May."

Sold by Jossestown Farm, the gelding is from the family of Indigenous, a 16-time winner and a champion stayer in Hong Kong.

Gerry Hogan signed for the April-born gelding as a foal at €12,500 when sold by Ballincurrig House Stud.

Telescope (Galileo) stands at Shade Oak Stud at a fee of £3,000. He was a dual Group 2 winner of the Hardwicke Stakes and the Great Voltigeur, a Group 1 runner-up in the King George and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Group 1 third in the Juddmonte International. (11:58)

Lot 35A: William J Hunter pays €26,000 for this son of Mount Nelson sold by Sluggara Farm.

He is out of the Presenting mare Mrs Pharback, a half-sister to Toofarback, winner of the Slaney Novice Hurdle (G2). It is the further family of Egypt Mill Prince, winner of the Lanzarote Hurdle (L).

The late Mount Nelson had 18 lots sell for an average price of €45,429 at this year's Derby Sale. (12:59)

Lot 51A: another wildcard entry catches buyers' eyes, but it is Pat Collins of Dower House Stables, who is the successful purchaser at €42,000.

"He is smashing horse, I liked him a lot, it is good pedigree and he will go point-to-pointing," said Colins, who is based in Cork.

By Mahler, the April-born gelding is a half-brother to four winners, including Mala Beach (Beneficial), the three-time Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 placed in the Thyestes Chase and the Christmas Hurdle, and Bonny Kate (Beneficial), whose results included a Grade 2 novice chase win, a third in the Thyestes Chase (G1) and two third placings in the Troytown Handicap Chase (G2).

He was sold by Railstown Stud, the property of Peppardstown Stud. (13:18)

Lot 50: this gelding by Yeats, sold by Cabragh Lodge, goes to Highfort Stud's Gerry Murphy for €40,000. He was bidding alongside Aiden Murphy, who is on crutches today having had a hip operation two weeks' ago.

The gelding is out of Park Mist (Great Palm), a half-sister to graded race winners Gallant Oscar and Enterprise Park, and from the family of The Listener (Grade 1 winner), Offshore Account (Grade 1 winner), Distant Thunder (Grade 2 winner), Fork Lightning (Grade 3 winner), Dooneys Gate (Grade 3 winner) and Yorkhill (Grade 1 winner).

Yeats finished a best-placed third in last season's British and Irish NH sires' championship with 85 winners and £1,792,000 in earnings. The son of Sadler's Wells is currently leading the early proceedings for this season with 36 winners and £350,000 in earnings. (13:15)

Lot 64A: the brown gelding by Soldier Of Fortune from Greenham Stables, the property of Daniel O'Sullivan, makes €45,000, bought by Aiden Murphy.

He is a half-brother to the winner Pennyforapound (Winged Love), who won over hurdles in January.

The mare Recession Lass has had three runners – her 2015 filly also by Winged Love, Home Farm House, won a point-to-point in 2020, while her 2017 filly named Pen Apatite and by Notnowcato has run once in a point-to-point. (13:55)

Lot 82A: one of only three by Kayf Tara, who is now retired from stud duties, to be offered over this three days of selling is bought by Aiden Murphy for €48,000.

"He is a typical Kayf Tara, and I love him as a sire," said Murphy. "The mare has proven she can get winners, and at the moment the horse has been bought on spec by myself and Olly [Murphy Racing]."

The mare Silent Waters has produced six winners from 10 runners and 12 foals. Her progeny have been successful over hurdles and on the Flat, and her daughter Distant Waters is also a successful producer being the dam of four winners, including Flamingo Rose, who won a NH Flat race in 2021.

Silent Waters is a half-sister to Gower Song (Singspiel), winner of the Dubai City of Gold Stakes (G3), and to Faraway Waters, dam of the Epsom Oaks (G1) runner-up Something Exciting.

Kayf Tara was retired from duties in 2020 having had 20 years in the covering shed. His leading runners include Thistlecrack, who won over £700,000 in earnings, Special Tiara, Blaklion, Ballyandy and Carruthers. (14:47)

Lot 121B: "He is the one I really wanted today," said Aiden Murphy after spending €115,000 on the son of Blue Bresil offered by Rathbarry Stud. "He is a lovely horse and has a pedigree. He is a great advertisement for the sire, he goes to Olly [Murphy] and is for Diana and Grahame Whateley."

The pedigree so admired by Murphy features The Two Amigos, a half-brother to this gelding by Midnight Legend. He is a three-time winner over fences, but his best result came when second in the Welsh Grand National (G3) last winter. He is now BHA rated 142 and is one of three winners out of the dam As Was – her 2014 gelding by Malinas named De Forgotten One was a winner in 2020 and is rated 123.

Dam As Was did not race, but her dam Line As (Cadoudal) was a Grade 3 winner over fences. She is dam of a Listed winner and grand-dam of Sizing Pottsie, a Grade 2 winner over fences last winter.

This gelding was a £26,000 pinhook by Hamish Macaulay Bloodstock from Yorton Farm Stud, which stood Blue Bresil until he transferred to Glenview Stud in 2020. The son of Smadoun began his stallion career in France at Haras de la Croix Sonnet where he stood from 2011 to 2015. His highest-rated runner so far is Royale Pagaille, who finished sixth in this year's Gold Cup (G1) behind Minella Indo.

Macaulay said: "I bought him as a yearling for Rathbarry, who wanted some by the sire when they had just started to stand Blue Bresil. He was always very nice and has done well and everyone wanted him today!" (16:47)

Lot 97A: Syracus Du Houx, by Al Namix, makes €46,000 – he is another top purchase by Aiden Murphy and is a wildcard entry offered by Moanmore Stables.

The grey gelding's is the second foal out of Thiza Bere (High Yield), who was a five-time winner in France. She was also placed 13 times and is a half-sister to Happy Bere (Pedro The Great), a two-time Listed winner as a juvenile in France.

Their dam Miss Fine can boast of a 100 per cent record with her foals – 11 foals, 11 runners and 11 winners. (15:31)

Lot 128A: goes to Harold Kirk, who bid €50,000 for this filly by Soldier Of Fortune.

"She has been bought on behalf of Ross and Peter Doyle," said Kirk. "She is for a new client of the Doyles, but may well end up in training with Willie [Mullins]. She has size and scope and is the nicest filly here today. "

The April-born filly was sold by Peter Nolan Bloodstock for Mr Seamus McKeogh. She is the second foal out of Ballycorrigan (Flemensfirth), who was a winner over hurdles and is a half-sister to Gold Present (Presenting), a Listed winner and Grade 2 placed over fences. (17:08)

Lot 137A: the third lot by Kayf Tara offered as part of the wildcard catalogue makes €40,000, bought by Tom Keating.

He is a out of the black-type mare Blaeberry (Kirkwall), the dam of two winners from four runners, including Smarty Wild (Fair Mix), placed fourth in the Listed December Hurdle at Sandown and a winner over fences in January. He is BHA rated 135.

It is the Classic family of Finsceal Beo, a champion two-year-old filly in 2006 and dual 1,000 Guineas winner, and Frozen Power, winner of the German 2,000 Guineas.

He was sold by Oneliner Stables, who purchased as a foal from Lady J.M. Bland and Stephen Kemble Bloodstock (Agent) at the Tattersalls Ireland November Sale in 2018. (18:08)

Lot 171: bids were raining in even as the auction for the well-bred Malinas gelding offered by Rathbarry Stud began to reach its conclusion at €49,000 when purchased by Harley Dunne.

The gelding is the first foal out of Diamond Gesture (Presenting), a half-sister to the black-type winners Dunhallow Gesture and Me and Ben. Third dam Monumental Gesture is dam of the talented Grade 1 pair of Rhinestown Cowboy and Wichita Lineman, as well as the dam of Coney Island.

Malinas, a son of Lomitas, stands at Rathbarry's Glenview Stud, and this year was advertised with a private fee having been available to breeders at €4,000 in 2020. His leading son Mister Malarky won the Listed Silver Cup Handicap Chase at Ascot last December, having beaten Black Corton in a Grade 3 Chase at Kempton in February 2020. (18:48)

Lot 189: the Glen Stables-offered daughter of Soldier Of Fortune sells for €33,000. T

The sale was maintaining the Coolmore sire's strong performance today – he is the sale's leading sire with 11 lots sold for an aggregate of €308,000. His average of €25,708 also heads the average for sires with three or more lots sold today.

This filly is out of the Listed NH Flat race winner Gaillimh A Chroi (Flemensfirth). (19:33)

Lot 204A: The second best was saved for last when Lot 204A by the late Adlerflug and from the family of the leading German pedigree of In Swoop, last year’s European joint-champion three-year-old and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) runner-up, was sold for €72,000.

He was offered by Elms Bloodstock for Boleyn Bloodstock and Tom Malone was the successful buyer.

“I have been waiting all day for this horse, he is a lovely type,” said Malone. “I think Alderflug’s will do well at this NH game. I have not got a client as yet – I am just about to make a call to Paul Nicholls!” (20:36)

Lot 209: Ian Ferguson starts early, the trainer going to €15,000 for a bay gelding by Snow Sky (Nayef) and sold by Nianda Stables, the property of Nigel Drought.

The gelding is out of Ever Again (Turtle Island), a half-sister to Iconoclast, a Listed winner over fences.

The stallion, who won the Hardwicke Stakes (G2) and the Yorkshire Cup (G2), stands at Ballycurragh Stud, and his first crop are four-year-olds of this year. He has had a handful of runners so far. (10:44)

Lot 253: Ballyboy Stables goes to €17,000 for the Lakeview Stables-offered son of Jet Away, who stands at Arctic Tack Stud and is listed with a private fee for this year.

His first crop are now five-year-olds and his leading performer to date is the filly Brandy Love, third in a Grade 2 mares' bumper in February. He had seven wins in the point-to-point field this spring finishing up as a top ten sire.

At the Derby Sale, the sire's three lots sold averaged €40,333. (12:26)

Lot 268: the Getaway filly out of Lisdaleen (Saddlers' Hall) and from Vinesgrove Stud sells to Jim O'Neill for €18,000.

Lisdaleen is a half-sister to the dam of Blackbow, sixth in this year's Marsh Novices Chase (G1), third in the Irish Arkle Novices Chase (G1), runner-up in the Grade 1 Conyngham Cup in 2018 and winner of the Future Stars (G2) bumper. He was a €32,000 Tom Lacey Derby Sale purchase in 2017 and won a UK point-to-point on his debut for Sophie Lacey in March 2017.

The family's other headline stars are the multiple graded race winners Go Roger Go and Apache Stronghold. (12:57)

Lot 284: the daughter of Saint Des Saints had interest all around the sale ring, but it was agent Matt Coleman, standing on the balcony and involved in the bidding from the outset, who was successful at €45,000.

"She is for Semore Kurdi, who is in the north of England," said Coleman. "She will go back to his farm and be turned out for a year before coming in to be broken.

"He was after a Saint Des Saints filly as a long term racing and breeding prospect, and this is a lovely, good moving and racy filly. Her dam Milanteea is a half-sister to Identity Thief and Saint Des Saints is a phenomenal sire and is becoming a very good broodmare sire, too," added Coleman.

Identity Thief's leading performances included two wins at Grade 1 level in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle and the Liverpool Stayers' Hurdle. He also won and placed a further four times at graded level.

Milanteea is also a full-sister to Not Available (Milan), who won his first race from his fourth start over fences in July. He is rated 125, is trained by Henry De Bromhead for Robcour, and cost €135,000 at the Derby Sale in 2018.

It is also the family of the talented performers Arteea, Merry Masquerade, Merry People and Over The Bar.

The filly was sold by Springhill Stud. (13:22)

Lot 312: Colin Bowe, signing as Milestone Bloodstock, pays €43,000 for the point-to-point prospect. The gelding is already named I Will Be Baie by Crillon and was sold by Boardsmill Stud.

"I have had two by the sire and they have both been very lucky for me," said Bowe. "They are not making Crillon's anymore, so let's hope this lad goes on ok."

The May-born gelding is out of the Poliglote mare Passion De Berlais, a daughter of the Grade 1 winner Psychee Du Berlais. She was a half-sister to Marcus Du Berlais, a Grade 1 winner of the Pierse Leopardstown Handicap Chase, and a runner-up and third placed in the Irish Grand National (G1).

Crillon stood at Haras de la Baie and his top performer is the Champion Hurdle winner Buveur D'Air, the winner of over £1 million in prize-money earnings. (14:10)

Lot 325: Michael Tobin had to go to €50,000 to secure the daughter of Flemensfirth from Sunnyhill Stud, but the successful buyer, who was standing on the balcony, achieved his aim with just one bid.

"She is for the Flynn family, who have Colreevy, and she has been bought as a racing and breeding prospect," explained Tobin. "She is a lovely model with a good mind, a good Flemensfirth. The pedigree speaks for itself and the first dam is still breeding so there is more to come, hopefully. A trainer has not yet been decided."

Sold by Sunnyhill Stud, the filly is out of Princess Gaia (King's Theatre), an own-sister to Voler La Vedette, the winner of 11 races over hurdles, including the Hatton's Grace Hurdle (G1). Princess Gaia is also a half-sister to Hennessy, winner of the Gold Cup Handicap Chase (G3) at Sandown, and to the dam of Shishkin, the dual Grade 1 Festival winner of the Supreme Novices Hurdle and the Arkle Trophy.

The Flynn family enjoyed the heights of racehorse breeding and ownership this spring when their eight-year-old mare Colreevy, a homebred and also by Flemensfirth, won the Cheltenham Festival Mrs Paddy Power Mares Chase (G2). She followed up that success with Grade 1 victory in the Champion Novice Chase at Punchestown. (14:34)

Lot 337, Lot 343 and Lot 348: it has been a busy half an hour for Matt Coleman, the agent buying three lots for three different clients.

Lot 337 from Dromod Stud is a gelding by Mahler and cost €20,000. He is the second foal out of a full-sister to Winter Escape and from the family Black Jack Ketchum and Fota Island. He has been bought for Jonjo O'Neill, a trainer who knows the family well – he trained Black Jack Ketchum to his nine career wins – the Oscar gelding winning or placing in 11 of his 14 career starts.

Lot 343, a Soldier Of Fortune filly, has been bought for trainer Noel Williams. She is a half-sister to three winners, from the family of 10-time winner Sir OJ and the Grade 2 winner Creepy. She was a €21,000 purchase.

The Ballyhast House-consigned gelding by Golden Lariat (Lot 348) cost Coleman another €20,000. He is an own-brother to the five-time winner Dingo Dollar, runner-up in the Scottish Grand National in April for trainer Sandy Thompson. (15:26)

Lot 360: the British-based NH jockey and bloodstock agent Jeremiah McGrath goes to €32,000 for the Mount Nelson filly from The Paddocks, the property of Sean Murphy.

"She is going to England and into training, though no plans have been made yet," said McGarth. "She is cracking filly and for me was a close second to the Flemensfirth sold earlier today. She is very athletic and has a good step."

The April-born filly is out of Tatispout, a seven-time winning daughter of Califet. She is dam of one runner – French Bumper, winner of a point-to-point in 2020. She has a four-year-old gelding by Ocovango and a yearling colt by Kingston Hill. (15:44)

Lot 374: Gavan Kinch/Liam Kenny go to €24,000 for the Westerner gelding out of Topathistle (Broadway Flyer), a half-sister to Hilltopper, who was a Listed winner over jumps in Germany. Third dam is the Listed winner Tarthistle, ancestress of the Rendlesham Hurdle (G2) winner Restless Harry.

Topathistle has had won winner from four runners, Gennady, a two-time winner over hurdles and rated 120. She has a yearling by Beat Hollow. (16:35)

Lot 397: Ballyboy Stables goes to €31,000 to buy this gelding by the late Mount Nelson from Rathturtin Stud. The gelding's dam Apple Trix is the dam of one winner from one runner.

Denis Murphy's stables has spent €69,500 on four lots today at an average spend per lot of €17,375. He is the day's leading purchaser under one name, though Matt Coleman of Stroud Coleman Bloodstock along with various various clients has bought four lots for a spend of €106,000 (average €26,500). (17:12)

Lot 411: Hamish Macauley Bloodstock goes to €28,000 for this chestnut gelding from Dromod Stud. He is by Sans Frontieres and out of a Glacial Storm half-sister to the World Hurdle (G1) runner-up Time For Rupert.

Sans Frontieres is a son of Galileo and stands at Vauterhill Stud at a private fee. He won the Irish St Leger (G1), the Geoffrey Freer Stakes (G2) and the Princess Of Wales's Stakes (G3). He also finished second in the Craven Stakes (G3) and third in the Dante Stakes (G2).

His leading progeny is JasonThe Militant, a seven-year-old in training with Henry De Bromhead. He won the Red Mills Trial Hurdle (G3) at Fairyhouse in February and finished third in the Morgiana Hurdle (G3) at Punchestown last November. (18:07)

Lot 431: today's busiest buyer Monbeg Stables buys a fifth lot today, the point-to-point team going to €23,000 for the Affinisea bay gelding out of Carrigbuck from Railstown Stud.

The sire, who is by Sea The Stars, stands at Whytemount Stud at a fee of €2,500. He has had two lots sell today for an average price of €18,250.

He had seven lots sell at the Derby Sale for an average of €33,571, and a top price of €65,000, which was given by Aiden Murphy.

A half-brother to Soldier Of Fortune, Affinisea only ran twice and his oldest crop are three-year-olds of this year. (19:00)

Today's withdrawals (at 9.20)

464, 465, 468, 479, 483, 485, 488, 490, 495, 505, 506, 508, 509, 511, 522, 524, 527, 532, 533, 535, 537, 541, 543, 553, 561, 566, 568, 577, 590, 595, 597, 598, 599, 600, 607, 608, 610, 614, 622, 634, 635, 636, 637, 640, 646, 652, 654, 656, 657, 662, 669, 671, 673, 674, 681, 683, 684, 686, 689, 690, 695, 717, 719, 721, 724, 725, 742, 743, 748, 755, 757, 763, 770, 771, 773, 777, 782, 783, 787 (09:19)

Lot 514: the only lot offered this week by the French-based sire Davidoff catches all the eyes in the sales ring, and the competition was strong for the Haras des Loges-offered May gelding.

Shark Hanlon, standing in the gateway, made a strong play, but the hammer was knocked down to Bobby O'Ryan standing on the balcony and taking instructions over the telephone.

"He is just a very nice horse, a lovely athlete," said O'Ryan. "He is a full-brother to a good horse and he goes to Gordon Elliott."

The full-brother is called Intrinseque, is a 10-time winner and has been placed 16 times, including when second in the Listed Prix Rose Or No Handicap Hurdle at Auteuil.

The buying team also had particular reason to buy this gelding – the sire's best runner Abacadabras , this year's Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle winner, is trained at Cullentra House.

The only other lot by the sire sold at Fairyhouse this spring was the Derby Sale's Lot 323. Already named Rainbow Trail, he was sold by Moanmore Stables to Monbeg Stables for €80,000.

Of NH trade this spring, O'Ryan added: "It has been strong – a good horse will always sell well, this is just an amazing game."

Ian Hanamy of Haras des Loges said: "I bought him as a foal from a neighbour, we only arrived on Sunday evening and he was vetted straight away – he is a tough horse to do all that within 25 hours of leaving home and not turn a hair.

"We usually sell as two-year-olds, but from an early stage we knew this horse would need the May grass so we targeted this sale for him. He is a super walker and has a great head on him, there is everything to like about him and he stood out. I think this is a really good horse, and the thing about this horse is he will be able to run next year.

"He is only the third horse I have sold to Bobby and the first two have won – hopefully this horse will keep up the perfect strike rate!" (11:54)

Lot 519: the daughter of the popular Champs Elysees sells for €50,000 and she is now making her way to Newmarket to be trained by Lucy Wadham.

She was sold by Nina Carberry's Broad Meadow Stables and was purchased by Jeremiah McGrath, who bought yesterday's July Sale's Lot 360, a filly by Mount Nelson.

"Like yesterday's purchase this is a well-bred filly," said McGrath after finishing his call with Wadham. "Lucy has the Fame And Glory half-sister Game On For Glory, who finished second in a bumper at the Cheltenham April meeting and they think a lot of her.

"This is a cracking model with some size and scope. I have ridden a few by the sire, but they were mainly the types bred for the Flat who went jumping."

The winning dam Jeunopse boasts a Grade 2 fourth placing, and to date has had two winners from four foals, with Game On For Glory looking a surefire future winner.

The third dam Youthful (Green Dancer) was a dual Group 1-producing mare as dam of Jeune, a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia and a champion in 1994-95, and Beneficial, who won the King Edward VII (G2) at Royal Ascot, finished third in the Washington D.C. International Stakes (G1) and was a leading NH sire. (12:09)

Lot 528: another that will be making his way to a training stable in the UK is this Milan gelding consigned by Gourneen Stables. He was bought by trainer Nicky Richards for €15,000.

Out of the Snurge mare Kinnard True, he is half-brother to two winners – the seven-year-old Global Fame (Fame And Glory), a winner in 2020 for Fergal O'Brien, placed twice this spring over hurdles and now rated 126, and Rob The Getaway (Getaway). He was a winner last-time-out in April for trainer Sam Allwood, has run eight times under Rules and has won or placed on six of those outings. (12:21)

Lot 571: the Yeats filly from Grange Stables has an immediate future in the point-to-point field, bought for €34,000 by Tommy Redmond.

She is a half-sister to three winners, including Royal Moll, whose only runner to date Sir Jackschiaparel won a point-to-point in April for Ellmarie Holden. He was subsequently sold via the Tattersalls Online June Sale for 29,000gns, bought by Richard Ford Racing.

The filly's second dam produced the black-type winners Ottowa, third-placed in the Feltham Novice Chase (G1), and Calling Brave, runner-up in the Challow Hurdle (G2).

Last season was a landmark for Yeats, with a best third-placed finish on the British and Irish NH sires' table. He sired 85 winners, and his progeny won over £1,700,000 in prize-money earnings. He also sired a notable treble, two of the winners successful at Grade 1 level, at the Cheltenham Festival. (13:38)

Lot 663: Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins are still busy buying – the team goes to €28,000 for the named gelding Icare Desbois. He is by Triple Threat and out of the mare Sologne, sold by Liss House.

Triple Threat is a son of Monsun and stands at Haras du Mont Goubert at a fee of €2,500. His first crop are three-year-olds of this year and he has had two winners on the Flat. He won at Grade 2 in the US and a Group 2 in France. His best result came when third in the 1m4f Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes at Woodbine. (17:24)

Lot 678: the Mahler ex Stratosphere (Selkirk) from Glen Stables sells to Colin Motherway for €20,000.

Stratosphere is out La Strada (Selkirk), the 1992 champion two-year-old in Spain and 1993 champion older mare in Spain. She is dam of Bow Strada, a 13-time winner and Grade 2 Adonis Juvenile Hurdle third-placed. It is the further family of Overstrand, winner of the listed William Hill Handicap Hurdle. (17:29)

Lot 709: trainer Seamus Mullins spends €16,000 on the Mahler gelding offered by Clonmult Farm. He is a first foal out of Vicky Milan (Milan), a half-sister the black-type winner Ballyegan Hero and Grade 1 runner-up Rhyl Accord.

The sire has sold 11 lots today for an average price of €9,473 and an aggregate of €104,200. He is currently the only sire with aggregate sales over €100,000. (17:40)

Lot 788: trainer Nicky Richards, always a strong supporter of the August Sale, goes to €31,000 for the son of Flemensfirth, the only lot catalogued at this sale by the former champion NH sire, sold by Shanaville Stables.

"We'll get him home, break him in and hack him about," reported Richards. "If the weather stays good this autumn, we might put him out in a field for a time. I have not got a client for him as yet, but I don't think I should have too much trouble selling him."

Richards' patience waiting to the end if the sale was rewarded, as he said "you've got to wait and something will drop into place."

The gelding is out of a dual winning Bertolini mare named Dazza, who is an own-sister to Violet Dancer, winner of the Betfair Handicap Hurdle (G3) at Newbury and third-placed in the Champion Finale Juvenile Hurdle (G1) at Chepstow. She is also an own-sister to the seven-time Flat winner and Listed placed Smokey Ryder, and a half-sister to Chris Pea Green, who collected a third place in the National Spirit Hurdle (G2).

It is the further family of Mr Brooks, winner of the July Cup (G1) and Prix de l'Abbaye (G1) and the Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner and sire, First Trump.

Richards is heading home tomorrow morning, looking at a few horses en route back to England. (19:36)