ON Thursday the yearlings section got off to a positive start when the fifth horse into the ring sold for €60,000 to Hamish Macauley.

The Boherguy Stud offered colt is by Darley stallion Blue Point who will have his first runners in the coming months and who is considered a potential leading first season sire.

This colt, from the high class German family of Eagle Rise and Eye Of The Tiger, received a timely update when his three-year-old half-sister Ermesinde made a winning debut at Lingfield last week for trainer Kevin Philippart de Foy.

Clare Manning’s Boherguy Stud was back in action soon after with another sought-after yearling, this time a filly by Too Darn Hot who was knocked down to Jill Lamb for €52,000.

Out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Galician, she is a half-sister to the French stakes performer Battle Of Toro from the family of Australian Group 1 winner Allow.

Lamb said: “I’ve bought her for Mike Watson of Trebles Holford Farm Thoroughbreds who are based in Somerset. She has a nice page, vetted well and a decision over whether to offer her for resale or to race her will be made later in the year.”

Dandy Man filly

The same buying team of Lamb and Watson struck again a while later when going to €56,000 for a Dandy Man filly offered by Tom Whelan’s Church View Stables. She is out of Maraaseem, a half-sister to juvenile winner Encosta from a pedigree that traces back to Group 1 winners Pearly Shells and Pearls Galore.

“She was bred by a close friend Brian McDonald and we are thrilled with that price,” Whelan said afterwards. “She just wasn’t quite ready for the foal sale here last November, so we decided to wait for this and it has worked out well.

“She showed herself off very well since she got here and I’m delighted she has been bought by Mike Watson who is a good friend of mine and she will go to a good home in the West Country,” Whelan added.