Lot 169: the only filly in the sale by Highland Reel makes €42,000 bought by Tom Malone from Clononeen Stud, the property of Boleyn Bloodstock.

Malone said: "She is a lovely filly and I fell in love with her when I saw her. I have been involved with a few Highland Reels and they seem to be putting their best foot forward now and starting to roll. I have a couple of youngsters at home, fillies too, that I really like.

"This is fine big filly and is out of an Authorised mare which helps. She is for Tom Malone and will be for sale once I get her home."

Dam Verchinina (Authorized) is a half-sister to the Ascot Gold Cup (G1) winner Big Orange, and the pair's dam Miss Brown To You (Fasliyev) is a half-sister to Military Attack, winner of the Singapore Airlines International Cup (G1), the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1) and the Jockey Club Cup (G2).

Miss Brown To You is also a half-sister to Almaty, who won the Molecomb Stakes (G2), and to Artisia, the dam of the Hong Kong Vase (G1) winner Red Cadeaux and the Listed winner Amazing Red.

Fourth dam is Al Bahathri, the champion three-year-old filly in Ireland in 1985, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner and the dam of Haafhd, the European champion three-year-old of 2004 and winner of the 2,000 Guineas.

Highland Reel has had three-year-old hurdle winners in England and Ireland, as well as the first three home in a juvenile hurdle at Tipperary. (16:15)

Lot 252: this three-year-old gelding is already named Mon Coeur and sells for €42,000. He was bought by Charlie and Francesca Poste.

He is by Manatee, a son of Monsun who stands at Whytemount Stud at a fee of €3,000.

Consigned by Arglo House Stud, the gelding is out of the two-time French winner Do Something Love (Chichicastenango) and was bought by Arglo as a yearling in France for €5,500.

Bred by Darley, Manatee was trained by Andre Fabre for Godolphin and won two Group 2s over 1m4f in France. He also twice finished fourth in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) run over the same distance.

His oldest crop are three-year-olds of this year and he has had a few runners in France. He stood until 2021 at Haras du Hoguenet. (19:22)

Lot 293: Six lots from the end of the session, trainer Nicky Richard spent the same amount on Yakaleo, the already-named son of Buck’s Boum. Consigned by Liss House, the gelding is out of Implora, an Early March full-sister to the Grade 3-placed hurdler Desinvolte.

“He is a lovely looking horse, a good loose walker,” said Richards. “He is by a great stallion, I just hope he is lucky. Ger Hannon, who helps me out, liked him. He is a probably a horse I won’t have to wait that long for – he won’t be five-year-old before he hits the track.”

As for future ownership plans, Richards laughed: “He is for the first man who rings me up! I will be able to pull him out in front of anyone, he is a cracking horse. He looks a runner and I hope he is one.” (21:47)

Part 1 statistics: (+/- compared to 2021)

Catalogued: 324 (255)

Offered: 270 (209)

Sold: 190 (143)

Total Value (€): 2,841,100 (90%)

Median Value (€): 11,750 (+47%)

Average Value (€): 14,953 (+43%)

% Offered Sold: 70% (68%)

Top lots

Lot 1A: Blue Bresil (FR) / Jessber's Dream (IRE) 2019 B.G. (IRE), Rathbarry Stud >>Tom Malone / Paul Nicholls >> €65,000

Lot 293: Yakaleo (FR) 2019 B.G., Liss House >> Nicky Richards >> €65,000

Lot 269: Network (GER) / French Girl (FR) 2019 B/Gr.G. (FR, Wood Hall Stables >> Hugo Merienne >> €60,000

Lot 14: Walk In The Park (IRE) / La Sarrazine (FR) 2019 B.G. (IRE), Railstown Stud >> Sam Curling >> €55,000

Lot 155: Affinisea (IRE) / Tasitiocht (IRE) 2019 Br.G. (IRE), Castletown Quarry Stud >>Johnny Hurley >> €46,000 (21:53)

Lot 609: the repatriated stallion Workforce, who stood in Japan at Shadai Stallion Station until 2016, has enjoyed a good time of it with his first Irish-bred runners, four-year-olds of this year, and his store horses have correspondingly been popular this spring.

This May-born gelding out of Killua Lady (Desert Sun) is sold by Mr. Thomas Keane to C H Thoroughbreds for €18,000.

The three-year-old is a full-brother to Scenic Look, one of those by the sire who impressed last season, his performances headlined by a fourth placing in the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle (G2) at Leopardstown in December. (11:01)

Lot 398: the first in the ring today by young Zamindar stallion Pillar Coral, whose first crop are three-year-olds of this year, fetches €24,000.

Offered by Kereen Stables for Pat O'Donovan, the gelding is bought by Eoin McDonagh of Shanaville Stables.

"He goes point-to-pointing," said McDonagh. "He is a good strong sort, I like the sire and I have seen a few by him and I like them. He has a nice pedigree, his half-brother was a bumper winner, and he looks like a horse who will come to hand quick."

The half-brother is called Monteip, won his bumper in December 2021, and holds his first hurdle entry next Tuesday for trainer Barry Fitzgerald.

Dam Riltree (Apple Tree)7y won over hurdles and is out of Fil Tiepy, a half-sister to Pomme Tiepy (Apple Tree), winner of the Ten Up Novice Chase (G2), the Naas Novice Chase (G2) and the Lombardstown Chase (L). She was also a runner-up in the Ellier Champion Novice Chase (G1).

Pillar Coral was bred by Juddmonte Farms. He did not race but is a half-brother to Coastal Path, Reefscape and Martaline. His dam Coraline was a half-sister to the Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight.

He stands at Kilbarry Lodge Stud at a fee of €1,500. (13:08)

Lot 534: "He will be for resale and we might go down the bumper or the point-to-point route," said Steven Crawford, who signed under the Crawford Bros, banner, after going to €25,000 for the Affinisea gelding from Moyfinn Stud.

"I thought he was the nicest horse today, and he has a good back pedigree – I have had a few from the family before. I have ended up as underbidder on couple this week, including yesterday's Buck's Boum."

The gelding is the first foal out of Blue Epona (Stowaway) and his third dam produced the Grade 2-placed Highway One O One, while fourth dam is High Board, the dam of Morley Street and Granville Again. (17:02)

Lot 33: Grove Stud's €60,000 pinhook, a bay filly by Mehmas, returns to the sale ring today and adds to her valuation – this time around she fetches €80,000, bought by Ed Sackville, the agent always a keen supporter of this sale. The filly has been bought for John Dance's Manor House Farm.

The filly is a half-sister to five winners, three of them successful as juveniles.

Dam Lisfannon (Bahamian Bounty) is a half-sister to the Listed winners Stunned and Dazed and Amazed, as well as to the dam of Yulong Gold Fairy, twice a winner of the Concorde Stakes (G3).

It is the further family of the fast-running Bishops Court, a Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) and the Listed-winning sprinter Astonished. (11:26)

Lot 46: by this year's first-season sire sensation Havana Grey, this colt from Mount Eaton Stud makes nearly ten times his foal purchase price – he was bought for 5,500gns at the Tattersalls December Sale signed under the George Mullins banner and sells today for €50,000.

"I am delighted to be back here after two years away!" smiled Phil Hore of Mount Eaton Stud. "I always love this sale, it has been lucky for me and suits the horse that I bred or buy.

"I was surprised that I got him for what I did! The yearlings last year had stood out, the way his sire Havana Gold has gone with his first-crop I really wanted a foal from the second-crop of Havana Grey. Plans don't usually work as well as that!"

Bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, he is the first by the sire offered at the sale and there are another nine lots (five fillies) due through the ring over the next two days.

The January colt is out of the dual winner Madame Paco (Paco Boy) and she is a daughter of Grade 2 winner Spotlight (Dr Fong) and a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Projection (Acclamation).

It is the family of the St Leger runner-up Berkshire Rocco, the Phoenix Stakes (G1) winner Zoffany, the Futurity Stakes (G2) winner Rostropovich and the Anglesey Stakes (G3) winner Wilshire Boulevard. (11:58)

Lot 57 and Lot 58: whatever his son can do, sire Havana Gold can do better – this colt by the Tweenhills Stud 12-year-old stallion and sold by Michael Tallon makes 95,000gns. He is bought by Kevin Ross having been pinhooked by Tallon for 19,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

"He is a smashing colt, he is our pick of the day," said Ross. "We bought Crack On Crack On at the breeze-up sales [Goresbridge Breeze-Up Sale, €70,000] and he turned out to be a good horse, and this is a three-parts brother and is very similar to the older horse, a lovely, athletic and good actioned horse.

"He is for the Rooneys."

Successful pinhooker Tallon, who is based just 20 minutes away, said: "I bought him at Newmarket on the Saturday, he was down in the Solario yard and I had seen him on Friday morning and I liked him.

"It was a very, very, wet afternoon on Saturday and I just remember looking across at him walking in the parade ring and he his walk was just unreal. He has a beautiful easy walk with a tremendous head on him and presence, I loved him."

For Tallon this is the most important aspect when he is selecting his pinhook investments.

"For me they have to have a good head and a good walk and be by a stallion that is 'known', no good coming here with an unknown stallion. He is the first by Havana Gold that I have had – this colt has such a beautiful temperament, I wouldn't mind another one."

Tallon keeps the pinhooked numbers to around five or six each year so that he and his wife Margaret can do the horses themselves, without having to rely on outside staff.

"Margaret has kept the lid on the whole things through the sales prep," he smiles, adding: "It needed someone to do that! She loved him, she handled him a lot – if every yearling was like him, it would be straightforward."

This colt is out of the unraced dam Meaning Of Time (Captain Gerrard), a half-sister to the July Stakes (G2) runner-up Lewisham and to Crack On Crack On. He won three races at three and achieved a BHA rating high of 98 when second in a Class 2 handicap at York. He was sold to Hong Kong where he has been placed in the Hong Kong Derby (L).

Ross then bought the consecutive lot in the ring, Lot 58, a filly by Phoenix Of Spain from Noralla Stud Farm, pinhooked by the farm as a foal for €22,000.

"She is lovely, attractive filly, good actioned as well," added Ross.

She is a half-sister to three winners, is out of the placed mare Meeting In Paris (Dutch Art) and is a grand-daughter of Sharplaw Star (Xaar), third in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2). (12:37)

Lot 91: offered by Lodge Park Stud and bought by trainer Ken Condon / RPG Bloodstock, this colt by Holy Roman Emperor makes €80,000.

He is out of the Sea The Stars mare My Twinkle from the immediate family of Night Style, the Group 1 winner of the Grand Criterium (G1), and from the further family of Grey Swallow, Moonlight Dance and Romanised.

Condon said: "He is a very nice colt, from a good farm, he has a lot of size and quality about him and an easy mover. He has been bought for Robert Ng, and he does come from the further family of Romanised so that was a big help, but he is a lovely individual in his own right.

"He handled himself well through all the proceedings. We will get him home, and our own people will break him in and he will come into the main yard in January."

Romanised, owned by Robert Ng, trained by Condon and also by Holy Roman Emperor, won the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) and the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1). He now stands in France at Haras de Bouquetot.

There are 15 lots by Holy Roman Emperor catalogued over this two-day September Sale. (13:45)

Lot 114: the Awtaad colt from Monksland Stables is bought by Peter and Ross Doyle and & Middleham Park Racing for €87,000, the February colt having been purchased for €36,000 last autumn by S & M Bloodstock.

"It is a great result and we are thrilled," said Clodagh Hassett of Monksland. "We are just a small team – just myself and Tom [husband] and the kids, Orla, Maebh and Richie, and my daughter led him up today. "

Of the colt, she said: "He just always did very well, he is a very forward type and he had a very good prep. He was very well behaved in the ring, he has a good attitude and is a lovely loose mover and is an uncomplicated horse; he really is what you look for in a yearling. It is a great result"

Asked what stood out for the family team when they went to €36,000 to buy him last year, without hesitation Hassett said: "We bought the walk – they have to have it from day one, it is not something you can give them."

Since the colt's purchase the family has been active and his half-brother Ancient Times (Exceed And Excel) has enjoyed a good 2022 – he has won twice, finished second twice from five starts. He is now BHA rated 93.

And in addition, Free Step (Muhaarar), this colt's 2019 half-sister, won her first race at the beginning of September.

"People like to see something new on the page, and recent updates alway help," said Hassett. "It is the best result we have had at this sale. he is a grand horse, but you never know what is going to happen until you go up to the ring and come out the far side."

Of the decision to come to sell at this sale, she said: "We thought he might stand out here as a real commercial type, and I think we have justified giving him the money we did as a foal." (15:06)

Lot 122: Sioux Nation, now the sire of 34 European first-crop winners, gets a result in the Fairyhouse sale ring – the Weir View Stud-offered colt, a €12,000 pinhook investment, makes €75,000, bought by R O'Ryan / R Fahey.

He is a half-brother to two winners and out of the Green Desert mare Pencarrow. She is a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 2 placed Tenenbaum (Authorized), and the Listed winner Aischa (GIant's Causeway), the dam of the Group 2 winner Princeipe Adepto

It is the family of Lady Blackfoot, who is the dam of Labeeb, winner of the Hollywood Derby (G1), and the grand-dam of the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) winner Spinning World.

Today's sale colt was bred by Patricia Casement and Dr Dean Harron. (15:16)

Lot 150 and Lot 152: two good pinhook results come in succession.

Lot 150, a Nathaniel colt bred by Newsells Park Stud and bought as a foal by JD Moore for 8,000gns at Tattersalls December, makes €75,000, sold by Wood Hall Stables.

Lot 152, a Due Diligence filly, is bought by Joe Foley. She was bred by Gwyn Meredith and was sold last year for €6,000 by Rathasker Stud to Tradewinds Stud, who in turn sold her today for €78,000.

Rathasker purchased the mare Riot Of Colour (Excellent Art) from Car Colston Hall Stud at the 2021 Tattersalls December Breeding Stock Sale for 14,000gns in-foal with this pregnancy.

Riot Of Colour is out of Riotous Applause, a half-sister to four black-type performers, headed by Crowded House, winner of the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy and runner-up in the Pacific Classic (G1). It is also the family of Reckless Abandon, champion European sprinter in 2013. (16:10)

Lot 176: the first lot to a six-figure sum at this year's sale is this colt by Footstepsinthesand, sold by Coole House Stud and bought on one bid of €100,000 by trainer Sheila Lavery's brother John Lavery.

The delighted trainer said: "He is a stand out for us – he has a lovely attitude, he was up here watching everything with his ears, looking around but going forward the whole time. He is a very straightforward horse. He is for John to own, and I will train for him. We will know this time next year if he is value!"

Lavery added: "He is a big horse, but he looks forward enough, but until you put he saddle on their backs and start to canter them you don't know whether they will be early sorts or not."

The March-born colt is out of the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Sciolina (Oratorio), and a brother to the Listed winner Some Respect (Gleneagles), and the recent Group 1 Flying Five Stakes runner-up Erosandpsyche (Sepoy).

He was bred and sold by Mark Dreeling and Barbara Fonzo's Coole House Farm, no strangers to selling highly priced young horses at Flat and NH Tattersalls sales at both Newmarket and Fairyhouse.

"He is going to brilliant trainer – Sheila Lavery is a top-class trainer," said Dreeling. "She loves him, she came to see him four or five times. The Danehill-Footsteps cross is a very successful proven cross which is why we decided on the stallion for the mare – and we are also huge fans of Footsteps, we have been so lucky with him.

"This will help pay the bills and keeps the operation going!"

Dreeling, who owns the Group 1-placed half-sibling Erosandpsyche, updated: "He will run once more this season before being put away for the year. Paddy [Twomey] might step him up to 6f to see if he will handle that before the season is out and there are two Group 3 s to come. We leave it all entirely up to Paddy, he is a genius and absolutely gifted." (17:35)

Lot 187: makes €110,000.

He is by Inns Of Court, whose first crop are yearlings of 2022 and this is his first yearling colt through the Fairyhouse sale ring.

Inns Of Court is a son of Invincible Spirit. He won the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene and was a runner-up in the Prix de la Foret. He stands at Tally-Ho Stud.

Consigned by Mountain View Stud, the bay colt was bought by agent Ed Sackville on behalf of John and Jess Dance's Manor House Farm.

Sackville said: "He is a lovely stamp of a horse and a really big, strong imposing type. I have never seen so many people bid on one horse!

"Inns Of Court is an unproven stallion, but he is by a proven sire of sires in Invincible Spirit. If he is anything like Tally-Ho Stud's recent first-season sires then he is going to have a very good chance of being successful. I would hope we are safe hands.

"He has been bought for John and Jess Dance, they will decide a trainer once the horse has got back to England and they have seen him."

Bred by the Silk Fan Syndicate, the colt is out of Silk Fan (Unfuwain), the winner of three races and placed twice at Listed level. She is dam of seven winners, including Haikbidiac (High Chaparral), Group 3 third in the Prix d'Arenberg.

Silk Fan is a half-sister to Gutaifan (Dark Angel), winner of the Flying Childers Stakes (G2), the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and runner-up in the Prix Morny (G1).

It is also the family of Maraahel and Ventura Storm (18:02)

September Yearling Sale statistics: Day 1 (% compared with 2021)

Catalogued: 240 (276)

Offered: 230 (254)

Sold: 202 (225)

Aggregate (€): 6,436,000 (-5%)

Median (€): 27,000 (+15%)

Average (€): 31,861 (+5%)

% Sold: 88%

Top Lot: Lot 187 by Inns Of Court ex Silk Fan (IRE) B.C. (IRE) from Mountain View Stud to Manor House Farm for €110,000

Top purchasers: 1. Joe Foley, 2. Manor House Farm, 3. SackvilleDonald

Top consignors: 1. Baroda Stud, 2. Castledillon Stud, 3. Tally-Ho Stud

Top sires (by agg): 1. Inns of Court, 2. Sioux Nation, 3. Invincible Army

Top sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Mehmas, 2. Caravaggio, 3. Awtaad. (21:16)

Lot 243: gets the Day 2 trade off to fabulous start, becomes the top-priced lot so far at the 2022 September Yearling Sale, selling for €115,000.

The colt by New Bay, pinhooked for €24,000 by Windlestone Investments, is bought from Tradewinds Stud by agent Alex Elliott, who confirms that he is a "New Bay addict"!

"The sire has been very good to me, this is my favourite horse of the sale," smiled Elliott. "His sister by Make Believe [All Lies Ahead], and so a three-parts sister, won a maiden this year, and bounced into the pedigree.

"I think New Bay is a superior sire and I can't get enough of him. It can be hard to get one by the sire as good looking as this horse, but they all look as though they will run through a brick wall. This is the one I wanted to buy and I think he has a chance of being a good horse."

The colt won't be in Europe for much longer – as soon as the paperwork is ready he is shipping to Australia.

Elliott outlines: "He is for Spicer Thoroughbreds, and will go to Australia. I have been doing business for Brad Spicer for two years, since Covid hit really. He has had a lot of success with European-bred horses, Camelot, Sea The Moons and, hopefully, now this New Bay. This horse will go to George Peckham to quarantine and then will head down.

He added: "Brad is planning to come up in October for Book 1."

The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale has been good to Elliott, and his graduates have achieved some good results in the sales race, in particular.

"I really like this sale, I have been for the last four years, it has been very lucky for me, " he says. "I bought Stone Circle, who won the sales race in 2019, Star Of Orion, who was beaten by the smallest margin in the race in 2020 and he is now a 100-rated horse, and Dandy Alys who finished third this year.

"That €300,000 incentive is massive – for this sort of horse it is a huge pot to run for, you have got to be rated in the mid-80s to have a fighting chance."

The most expensive of the Elliott-trio was Star Of Orion who cost €50,000 in 2018. (10:51)

Lot 279: another by Inns Of Court catches the buyers' eyes, this time it is a filly by the young Tally-Ho Stud-based stallion.

The March-born filly, bred by Mr Robert Norton out of Ziggy's Secret (Sakhee's Secret), was offered by Tally-Ho, who spent €30,000 on her as a foal and sold her today for €100,000. She was bought by Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock, with underbidders including Eddie Linehan and Archie Watson.

"She has been bought for Simon Munir and Isaac Souede," said Anthony Bromley. "We bought three yesterday and we also tried on the top lot colt.

"I have been very taken by the stock by Inns Of Court and she was definitely more than the budget I had proposed, but she was a three-star horse all week and stood out. We weren't necessarily looking for a filly at the sale but she was my pick. Simon was on the phone and we had to go that little bit more than expected, but hopefully she is a nice filly. She goes to Joseph O'Brien."

Of the Munir and Souede Flat string, Bromley continued: "They have a nice three-year-old filly who is called Seisai, she is a Listed horse and Group 2-placed and is with O'Brien. We were beaten two inches in the Weatherbys £300,000 sales race with Alpha Capture, who is trained by William Haggas.

"There is a few on the Flat, and we have got a few yearlings this summer, and we will see how it goes. It is only very small at the moment, but we are looking to get a few more."

Ziggy's Secret was a winner at two and four and has produced three winners from three runners – all are winning juveniles with the latest success story Iato's Angel (Footstepsinthesand) coming after the catalogue was printed.

Two lots earlier Lot 277, also by Inns Of Court and sold by Tally-Ho, made €65,000 and was bought by Nick Bell. (11:45)

Lot 316: another strong sale for Tally-Ho, and for another good sale for a homebred yearling by one of the farm's sires – this Cotai Glory colt makes €65,000, bought by Gary Halpin and Sean Davis.

The bay colt's dam Asrafairy (Zebedee) was unraced, but she is a half-sister to the dual Group 1 Fairyland and to Now Or Never, a Group winner in Ireland and Australia.

Third dam Land Of Dreams, winner of the Flying Childers Stakes (G2), was dam of the champion two-year-old and champion three-year-old sprinter Dream Ahead, as well as the Listed winner Into The Dark. (13:16)

Lot 355: Coole House Stud is due to offer three lots through the two-day September Yearling Sale – three have gone through the ring with two making €100,000 – yesterday's second top lot (Lot 176) and today's Lot 355, the fifth horse to make €100,000 or more at this year's September Sale.

By Bated Breath and out of the unraced Cape Cross mare Caped Lady, the colt was bought by Joe Foley on behalf of Clipper Logistics.

"He was our pick of the sale," says Foley. "We have had three Bated Breath colts – Space Traveller, now a Grade 1 horse in the US, Fresh and Victory Day, who was unbeaten and was sold to Hong Kong. We have had three really good Bated Breath colts and he is the fourth one we have bought.

"This is a lovely colt from a fantastic farm, the Dreelings are great breeders. It is a pleasure to buy one from them, I underbid Larchmont Lad [September Sale €110,000 graduate and subsequent G2 winner] so it is a pleasure to buy one from them.

"We will pick a trainer later, and he will run in the Clipper colours and is our first purchase for Clipper this year."

Barbara Fonzo of Coole House was all smiles after the sale.

"He is a gorgeous horse, he sold himself, he did not need much help from us," she said. "It was a big adventure producing him because we took the mare to England on a 24-hours walk-in to Juddmonte, which we had not done before. Some friends helped us out and travelled the mare because we were busy foaling.

"Everything went like clockwork – she went in-foal straight off, he is correct and he can walk for Ireland. You can't buy those things."

Of the decision to send the mare to Newmarket for a cover by Bated Breath, she said: "We had liked the Bated Breaths we had seen – nice sharp types, he gets great and consistent results. We try and produce the individual and we thought he was good value for money."

She added: "We are happy with that price, and we are delighted Joe got him – we have been trying to sell him a horse for a long time!" (15:09)

Lot 354: Tradewinds Stud, which earlier today sold the session's and the sale's current leading lot for €115,000 (Lot 243), gets another good pinhook result – this colt by Sioux Nation out of the Manduro mare Can Dance selling for €50,000.

The April 30th born colt had been purchased by Interactive Bloodstock for just €7,000 as a foal.

"He is a lovely straightforward colt and the stallion's first crop has gone extremely well and we are very pleased," said Shane Power of Tradewinds Stud.

Reflecting on the sale of the New Bay colt in the first half an hour of selling this morning, Power said: "New Bay has really stepped up to the next level this year and is into that top end of stallions now – amongst the more commercial stallions here it meant the yearling stood out.

"The colt was a very good moving correct sort with a lovely outlook – he was definitely a bit of stand out here."

He added: "Alex [Elliott] has been a good supporter of us over the last few years and has bought a number of horses from us, hopefully this is good one for him."

When asked what caught Power's eye when he bought the colt as a foal last year, he said: "His walk stood out for him as a foal, he is particularly a good mover."

Of course selling horses is often about timing, and both New Bay and Sioux Nation have had good summer seasons on the racecourse.

"The timing for him was right for him, and for Sioux Nation – he has come forward this year with a couple of stakes horse in his first crop. Stallion power is a big driver at these sales, it is the first thing people look at in page."

Tradewinds has a draft heading to the October Yearling Sale in Newmarket – in Book 1 a Caravaggio colt out of a Galileo mare (Lot 383), three in Book 2 (Lot 567, Lot 678 and Lot 1312 by Magna Grecia, Blue Point and Twilight Son) and one in Book 3 (Lot 1655 by Ribchester). All five are pinhook investments. (15:32)

Lot 390: this Sioux Nation colt hits the six-figure mark, the son of the Danehill Dancer mare Decorative making €100,000.

He was sold by by Tom Burns, who has previously sold pinhooked yearlings through Tally-Ho Stud but has now branched out on his own and bought a farm near to Mullingar. And he has got off to a flyer – this is the first pinhook he has sold under his new Gibbonstown Stud banner.

"I liked this horse last year as a foal – he looked athletic and strong, and I took a chance that Sioux Nation would have a good year," he recalls. "We paid €20,000 for him, I am delighted with this result."

Burns hopes to expand the equine business from Gibbonstown – and he has certainly set up a fine launch pad to do just that.

The colt was bought by Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock on behalf of Andrew and Jane Megson, owners of the recent May Hill Stakes (G2) winner Polly Pott.

"He is a big scopey horse, and is by a red hot stallion in Sioux Nation," said Bromley. "The Megsons own Severance, who is one of the five winners out of the mare. This colt will be given lots of time and will be joining trainer Ben Pauling."

He will be joining his older half-brother Severance, who is also trained by Pauling. The Nathaniel six-year-old was rated 91 on the Flat and has now gone hurdling – he finished second in the Grade 2 Swinton Hurdle last time out.

Their star juvenile filly Polly Pott will also be heading to the Pauling yard once her current trainer Harry Dunlop retires at the end of this season, but the Lambourn-based trainer is currently still busy making plans for the Group 2-winning daughter of Muhaarar.

"Harry today did an entry for her in next year's Irish 1,000 Guineas," reported Bromley. "She will have another run this season and Harry is targeting the Group 1 Fillies' Mile." (16:32)