THERE was no evidence of post-Brexit blues at Park Paddocks in Newmarket this week when the large catalogue for the annual July Sale was put under the hammer. Records fell like bowling pins and as trade continued before racing on Friday, and with more than 100 lots still to sell, turnover had already surpassed 11,000,000gns. The 2006 record of almost 12,200,000gns was in sight.

WEDNESDAY

With the exception of dispersal sales, Tattersalls will have had very few days in their 250 year history when one vendor dominated to the extent that Godolphin did on Wednesday.

They sold the top 10 lots on the day, and were responsible for 15 of the 19 that sold for 100,000gns or more. With a total of 72 lots selling for an average of 61,021gns, their extensive draft totalled receipts of 4,393,500gns and will account for a third or more of the entire week’s takings.

For a few hours it appeared that a pair of in-foal mares that sold for 250,000gns each would be the stars of the draft, but then along came a three-year-old unraced daughter of Street Cry, a half-sister to the champion miler Raven’s Pass. Eamonn Reilly of BBA Ireland was not going to be denied for the impeccably-bred filly and when the hammer fell at 270,000gns he revealed that she had been purchased for Maurice and Patricia Regan’s Newtown Anner Stud in Tipperary.

From the immediate family of another champion in Rainbow View and out of a Grade 3 winning daughter of Lord At War, Carte De Visite will be a fascinating mare to mate in 2017 and she is part of a programme by the farm to upgrade their resident broodmare band.

She will be joined on the farm by the stakes-placed Teofilo mare Desert Snow and this three-time winner was sold carrying her first foal by the new sire Night Of Thunder. The son of Dubawi stood his first season at Kildangan this year for €30,000. It was a bid of 250,000gns from Reilly that secured the five-year-old daughter of Teofilo and the mare comes from a family famously associated with Kirsten Rausing.

Desert Snow is a half-sister to Parish Boy and they are two of the eight winners produced by the Rainbow Quest mare Requesting. Her siblings have between them bred the Group 1 winners Aussie Rules, Allegretto, Albanova, Alborada, Yesterday and Quarter Moon.

Minutes after Desert Snow sold, it was the turn of another from the Godolphin draft to reach 250,000gns. The stakes winner Zuhoor Baynoona, a daughter of Elnadim, is the first winner for her Shamardal dam Spasha and she was sold with a covering by Muhaarar who commanded a fee of £30,000 this year at Nunnery Stud. Cormac McCormack signed for her and the mare is scheduled for export.

McCormack was to purchase another six-figure lot from the draft later in the day, giving 100,000gns for the four-time winning Street Cry mare Travel, in foal to Night Of Thunder. The six-year-old is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Eight Belles who ran second in the Kentucky Derby.

Oliver St Lawrence was acting for a British breeder when he paid 220,000gns for Zoella, yet another mare in foal to the 2000 Guineas and Lockinge Stakes winner Night Of Thunder. A winner at three and a half-sister to a pair of stakes winners, this daughter of Invincible Spirit is out of a half-sister to the Queen’s Carlton House who won the Dante Stakes and was placed in the Derby.

The sale of Lake Mamana for 210,000gns was the most expensive of the lots sold to Yulong Investments. With interests in China and Australia, the company’s chief Zhang Yuesheng was accompanied by Melbourne bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills. Their new acquisition is an unraced daughter of Shamardal and the stakes winner Lake Toya. The latter is a Darshaan granddaughter of Doff The Derby, dam of the dual Derby winner Generous.

Another daughter of Shamardal to feature among the top lots was Satiriste and she is carrying her first foal by Iffraaj. Placed twice last year in France, the four-year-old is out of the Group 1 winner Satwa Queen, gained when she landed the Prix de l’Opera. She cost Broadhurst Agency’s Laurent Benoit 180,000gns.

Eamonn Reilly was especially busy on the day and another notable sale to him was the Medaglia D’Oro three-year-old Kamakura. This full-sister to Saratoga stakes winner Bay Of Plenty and from the family of Mineshaft will make her way back to the land of her birth after her sale for 150,000gns.

Street Cry sired the sale topper and two more of his daughters sold well from the Godolphin consignment. Brian Grassick Bloodstock paid 150,000gns for Aaraamm and she is an own-sister to the Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Saamidd. This is the family of Barathea, developed for generations by the late Gerald Leigh.

McKeever Bloodstock acted for Aquis Farm when laying out 140,000gns for Street Cry’s Main Chance, an unraced half-sister to the Group 1 Nassau Stakes winner Favourable Terms. The same purchasers bought a second six-figure lot from Godolphin. The Authorized three-year-old Gwenella cost them 120,000gns and she was placed since the catalogue was printed. She is a half-sister to the Australian Group 1 winner Allow.

Dream Child won five times and was placed in a trio of listed races. The daughter of Pivotal was sold with her first covering by New Approach and Elwick Stud acquired her for 130,000gns. One of the first mares to be sold in foal to Slade Power was Wanting and this three-time winning daughter of Acclamation is a full-sister to the listed winner and Group 1 Prix Morny third Parliament Square. She cost Stroud Coleman Bloodstock 115,000gns.

Completing the list of six-figure lots in the Godolphin draft were Forest Maiden and Puzzler and both sold for 100,000gns. The unraced New Approach four-year-old Puzzler is in foal to Raven’s Pass and she is a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Ocovango. Forest Maiden on the other hand is a four-time winner and this daughter of Invincible Spirit and the Group 1 winner Lady Marian is due next March to Night Of Thunder.

Expensive Date did not initially live up to her name, being led out of the ring unsold. A private sale afterwards for 125,000gns saw her purchased by Emerald Bloodstock and in so doing she became the most valuable non-Godolphin lot of the day. A stakes-placed three-time winner, she is due her first foal next January by Dark Angel. She was sold by Stratford Place Stud.

The Australian based Aquis Farm teamed up again with McKeever Bloodstock to pay 120,000gns for Lieoftheland. Bought for 17,000gns by Andy Oliver as a yearling, this Canford Cliffs three-year-old is now a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Magic Hurricane. She is also from the family of German Derby winner Lucky Speed.

Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock paid 120,000gns for Cheveley Park Stud’s Duet, a Pivotal own-sister to Group 3 winner Humouresque and a half-sister to Group 2 winner Danehurst. She was in foal to Nathaniel. On Location, a well-named winning daughter of Street Cry and Grade 1 winner Film Maker, sold with a Kodiac covering for 100,000gns from Brook Stud to BBA Ireland.

THURSDAY

Having sold for a straight 12 hours on Wednesday, the sale on Thursday fitted around racing at Newmarket and consisted of morning and evening sessions. After the fireworks that accompanied the opening day’s sale, this was back to a more regular scene, though three more lots realised 100,000gns or more, and a larger catalogue produced an increase in turnover.

Purchasers from Qatar have been making their presence felt at sales in Europe in recent years and they were to the fore again at Newmarket. The two most expensive lots on the day were sold to leading trainer Gassim Ghazali and they both topped their respective sessions. He paid 115,000gns for Juddmonte Farms’ Perigee, a three-year-old son of Cacique who won and was placed again after the catalogue was printed. John Gosden’s task in getting a winning bracket for him worked a treat and he sold in the evening session.

Before racing Shadwell’s draft included Altarsheed, a three-year-old gelded son of Lilbourne Lad who won last year for Richard Hannon. The gelding added a further success in the weeks leading up to the sale and this increased his appeal for Ghazali who went to 110,000gns to secure him for the Middle East.

The only other lot to bring six-figures was Open ‘N Shut who won on his debut recently for Roger Varian and the three-year-old son of Kyllachy will head to Ibrahim Al-Malki’s tables to race for Faisal Al-Thani. He sold for 100,000gns.

FRIDAY

Victory two days before his appearance in the sale ring meant that there was plenty of interest in the three-year-old New Approach colt Generalship and so it proved, the colt selling from John Gosden’s yard to Gassim Ghazali for 120,000gns. The Qatari trainer had to fend off his countryman Ibrahim Al-Malki. This mark was almost twice that of the next best lot in the morning session.

Final report on Friday evening’ session and figures will appear next week.