THREE days of sales, three days of a Dubawi heading the trade. The high of Tuesday was matched when Meon Valley Stud’s half-brother to dual Group 1 winner Izzi Top and Group 1 runner-up Jazzi Top attracted Sheikh Hamdan and he paid 2,600,000gns to secure the son of Group 1 winner Zee Zee Top, one of three Group 1 winners from the Irish Oaks heroine Colorspin.

Shortly afterwards the best-priced filly of the week was sold. Bred in partnership by Paul Shanahan’s Lynch-Bages and David Wachman’s Longfield Stud, this Galileo own-sister to three-time Group 1 winner Alice Springs may head to Ballydoyle or France after MV Magnier joined forces, as he had done all week, with Mayfair Speculators and Doyle Bloodstock to secure her. An opening bid of a million guineas did not deter bidders and she realised 2,100,000gns, contributing more than half of the four million turnover of the Glenvale Stud consignment this week.

Two sons of Frankel sold for seven-figure sums on the day, one to Shadwell and one to Magnier/Mayfair/Doyle, before Fiona Craig for Moyglare Stud gave 900,000gns for a daughter of the Juddmonte sire.

Denis Brosnan’s half-brother to Zoffany was first to cause a stir, the bidding stopping when Magnier’s 1,100,000gns offer saw off the opposition. Zoffany has enjoyed a great start to his stud career at Coolmore.

That price was overshadowed when Floors Stud, owned by the Duke of Roxburghe, sold the regally bred Frankel colt out of the European champion Attraction to Shadwell for 1,600,000gns. The dual 1000 Guineas winner won five Group 1 races and her first six runners are winners.

Last weekend the 2016 group-winning juvenile Toulifaut sold at Arqana for €1,900,000. Barronstown Stud offered her Frankel full-sister and she will now race for Moyglare after her purchase for 900,000gns. The filly’s first three dams won at group or graded stakes level and further back in the family is Group 1 winner and successful sire Zoffany.

Legatissimo has been a great standard-bearer for David Wachman, winning the 1000 Guineas, Nassau and Matron Stakes, and her Shamardal half-sister was one of the many stars in the Newsells Park Stud consignment that grossed 5.7 million guineas. She contributed 870,000gns of that figure and was bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

The same agency paid 750,000gns for another gem in the Floors Stud draft, a Dubawi half-brother to the outstanding Hong Kong runner Viva Pataca and the dual Grade 1 winning filly Laughing.

Minutes before that another Dubawi sold well, this time it was a filly from Watership Down Stud. A half-sister to three Italian Group 1 winners, she was another offspring of her sire to fall to John Ferguson, costing 825,000gns. Ferguson’s spend on 26 lots during the week cost just a bid less than 14,000,000gns and this was just less than five million more than the nine million spent by Magnier/Mayfair/Doyle. The latter’s dozen purchases averaged 750,000gns.

Six buyers spent four million guineas or more and accounted for more than half of the entire sale’s takings. Shadwell Estate spent just shy of nine million, Blandford Bloodstock’s 25 lots cost 6.5 million guineas, Roger Varian bought 13 lots for almost 4.5 million while Charlie Gordon-Watson’s bill for 17 lots will be just over four million. No other buying entity spent more than two million guineas.

SIGNIFICANT BUYS

Two further significant buys by MV Magnier and partners were both by the Coolmore star stallion Galileo. New England Stud consigned Triermore Stud’s daughter of the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes winner A Z Warrior and she sold for 750,000gns, while Sonia and Anthony Rogers’ Airlie Stud received 500,000gns for a half-brother to Group 2 winner Viztoria.

Dark Angel had two yearlings in the session sell for 500,000gns or more. Shadwell Estate paid exactly that amount for the first foal from the dual Group 3 winner Tickled Pink. Bred by Trevor Stewart, the colt’s dam is a daughter of the King’s Stand Stakes winner Cassandra Go, and a half-sister to triple Group 1 winner Halfway To Heaven.

A few lots later and Charlie Gordon-Watson gave 700,000gns for a full-sister to Midnite Angel, a group-placed filly, and the multiple winner Emman Bee. The Kilmoney Cottage Stud offering was the pinhooking success of the week, having cost Michael and Ciara Carty €145,000 as a foal.

John Ferguson’s significant buys on the day included colts by Oasis Dream and Invincible Spirit, both sons of Green Desert. The Castlebridge Consignment sold a son of the former, the second foal from the Hurricane Run mare Azanara, herself a half-sister to the Prix Ganay winner Astarabad and to the dam of Azamour. He cost Ferguson 600,000gns and the colt was bred by Matt and Lee Taylor.

Lady O’Reilly offered an Invincible spirit own-brother to stakes winning juvenile Beach Belle from her Hollyhill Stud and the colt sold for 525,000gns.

Kirsten Rausing’s Staffordstown obtained their best price of the week when selling a son of Breeders’’ Cup Sprint winner and leading sire Speightstown for 525,000gns to Shadwell. The colt is the first foal of the Galileo mare Albamara, a stakes-placed daughter of the triple Group 1 winner Albanova.

Shaun Dugan was acting for Al Shira’aa Farms again when she gave 500,000gns for a Shamardal half-sister to Australian stakes winner Arab Dawn. This was another big price for a yearling bred by the Cumani’s Fittocks Stud in partnership.