TRALONG Bay starred at a low-key edition of the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot July Sale on Tuesday, the two-year-old daughter of Showcasing crossing the Irish Sea from Baroda and Colbinstown Stud to sell and she returns to Ireland in new ownership.

Her sale price of £37,000 resulted from some active bidding in the ring and it was Geoffrey Howson who had the final say for the half-sister to three winners, out of a group-placed half-sister to the Group 2 winner and sire Moss Vale.

Howson revealed that she was purchased by an Irish breeder who will likely try to win a race with her before she heads to the paddocks.

The Craigsteel gelding The Bonny Boy was runner-up on his second start at Ballingarry in early June and was sold by William Costelloe for £24,000 to agent Tom Malone and Thomas Costello.

The latter, a grandson of his famous and legendary namesake Tom, will point-to-point the new purchase. The gelding comes from the family of Grade 2 winning chaser Heltornic.

Three lots sold for £17,000 and the first to do so was four-time winner Oriental Lilly. She was sold to trainer Jim Goldie and returns to the yard from which she came up for sale, catalogued as the property of a partnership. The daughter of Orientor is out of a winning half-sister to British Champions Sprint Stakes runner-up Jack Dexter.

Matching that price was Godolphin’s Epaulette three-year-old Effervescence who was placed three times this year from James Tate’s yard. She now heads to Kuwait following her purchase by Peter Harper.

The third lot to achieve a price of £17,000 was the four-time winning King’s Theatre mare Innocent Girl and she looks set for stud duties after her sale to Riverview Farm.

Innocent Girl was sold from Harry Fry’s stables and so too was the 10-year-old Henryville, winner in April 2017 of the Grade 2 Silver Trophy Chase at Cheltenham and seven other races. He cost trainer Peter Bowen £15,000.

Urbanist, a winner at Punchestown last December for Shane Nolan and from the immediate family of Commanche Court, will now race for Dr Richard Newland after he sold for £16,000.

The 2014 Grand National-winning trainer bid by telephone for the six-year-old son of Black Sam Bellamy. This sale came minutes after Tim Syder’s Hidden Cargo, placed a number of times for Alan King, sold for the same amount to William Bryan and he will likely be seen point-to-pointing.