WHILE Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s agent Angus Gold was busy spending just over seven million guineas of his boss’s money in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on 19 lots, he upped the spend this week to add a further 51 lots to the Shadwell team.

They averaged 166,765gns and cost Sheikh Hamdan 8,505,000gns, bringing his total spend by Wednesday evening to just short of £16.5 million over two weeks. Last year Sheikh Hamdan bought 40 lots in Book 2.

In addition to the top lot, Shadwell acquired three others of the 18 lots to realise 250,000gns or more at the sale. Heading the trio was Tom and Gill Bostwick’s son of Siyouni and the listed-placed Exceed And Excel mare Moonlit Garden. A half-brother to three winners, the dam’s three previous foals, the colt was prepared for the sale and consigned by Barton Stud where Moonlit Garden resides.

Edward Player’s Whatton Manor Stud turned an 85,000gns Kingman foal buy into a 280,000gns yearling sale when the half-brother to Italian stakes winners Faciascura and Finidaprest sold to Shadwell. Player was quick to wish the new owner well. “This colt is a gorgeous horse; we didn’t think we’d afford him last year. We wish Sheikh Hamdan, who is a great supporter of this sale, the best with him. We hope he becomes a great horse.”

Earlier the same vendors sold a son of Sea The Stars for 260,000gns and he is set to join John Gosden.

Tony O’Callaghan was in promotional mode when he sold a home-bred daughter of Kodiac to Shadwell for 260,000gns. “This season Kodiac has had two Group 1 winners, 42 individual winners, the most runners, the most winners of any stallions – he is tipping away well,” was his immediate reaction, while also revealing that he paid 50,000gns for the Dansili dam Airfield. The foal she was carrying at the time, the Sir Percy filly Flighty Lady, was third recently in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.