FRANKEL’S six yearlings sold averaged almost €425,000 and the best of the week at €700,000 was Ecurie des Monceaux’s daughter of a Cape Cross half-sister to Group 1 winner Plumania and to the dam of the Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Left Hand. She was Lot 4 and agent Michel Zerolo was frustrated in his efforts to secure the filly, described by her purchaser Shawn Dugan as “stunning, impossible to fault”.

Another American buyer signed for Frankel’s daughter of listed winner Ascot Family. This time it was Justin Casse who paid €535,000 for the filly, a half-sister to Group 2 Prix Robert Papin winner Family One, from Haras des Capucines.

Within the first hour of selling David Redvers, acting for Sheikh Fahad, spent €700,000 for another Monceaux offering, a son of Fastnet Rock and the Galileo mare Starlet’s Sister. The colt is a half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Sistercharlie and this year’s Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby winner Sottsass.

The daughter of Siyouni out of listed winner Apple Charlotte sold for €650,000 to Jason Litt for LNJ Foxwoods. The hammer also fell at €650,000 in favour of Morten Buskop for a half-sister by Galileo to juvenile group winner Peace Envoy and Scandinavian juvenile champion Our Last Summer. The new owner is Lone Kaj-Nielson who won this year’s Swedish Derby.

Sackville Donald struck within the first hour of the sale for a Kingman colt, a full-brother to a winner in 2019, out of the group-placed Galileo mare Spin. He cost €600,000. A colt from the first crop of Shalaa was another who sold for €600,000, Bought by Satomi Horse Company and signed for by Narvick International’s Emmanuel de Seroux, he will race in Japan.