WITH no corresponding edition due to snow last year, the sales season at Tattersalls Ascot was another to draw to a close, and this year’s edition posted increased figures compared to 2016.

Richard Pugh was pleased with the day’s traded and commented: “Today’s sale saw demand for horses boasting form and it was pleasing to sell a top lot of £37,000 along with 19 horses making £10,000 or more, 10 more than the sales’ most recent edition. There was a diverse range of buyers with the top 20 lots going to 20 individual purchasers.”

Steven Crawford’s Newlands Farm sold the day’s best priced lot Gennady, a four-year-old son of Arakan who eventually fell to Tom Malone, in spite of stiff competition from a number of English trainers. Beaten into fourth on his only start in an Ayr bumper at the end of October, the gelding will now join Keith Dalgleish to race for Richard Gilbert.

Another Crawford entry who also ran fourth in a bumper at Ayr was Nothing Man, a four-year-old son of Ask. From a top notch female line, he sold for £26,000 to trainer David Dennis and the gelding was recommended to him by jockey Brian Hughes.

Trainer Ivan Furtado will train Kings Highway, a three-year-old son of Shamardal who was the best of the consignment from Godolphin at the sale. A winner over a mile in the autumn, he cost the trainer £32,000. The colt is out of a full-sister to Beat Hollow.

Another trainer with a new addition to his string is Michael Blake and he paid £22,000 for the four-year-old Hurricane Arcadio. This son of the Wexford-based Arcadio was placed in a couple of point-to-points and he will be next seen hurdling.

Four-time winner Sauchiehall Street sold from Sylvester Kirk’s Cedar Lodge Stables to Noel Williams who signed in the name of Stroud Coleman. The three-year-old son of Mastercraftsman will race on the flat and over hurdles for an unnamed racing club.