HALF a dozen fillies sold for 200,000gns or more at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale and Godolphin ended up with a pair of them. They included the top-priced of the sex, the 500,000gns daughter of More Than Ready from Greenhills Farm. This is the trading name of Katie Walsh and the Kildare woman consigned the filly on behalf of Corduff Stud’s David Egan, He purchased her privately after she failed to sell in the ring at $45,000.

She is by one of America’s leading stallions and out of the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes winner Sis City. In addition, she is a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner Second City. Walsh commented after the sale: “She is a gorgeous filly. She is strong with a lovely pedigree and has always been straightforward to do - she just has it, just is a natural.”

Egan added: “She did not sell and I was just there by the ring - I guess it was just luck! She was broken in and went to Katie in January - everyone involved in producing her have done a fabulous job.”

Having purchased her as a foal for €52,000, Tally-Ho Stud was not prepared to trade at €40,000 just 10 months later when they offered the daughter of Dandy Man and the Bushranger mare Lauren’s Girl at last year’s Orby Sale.

Their judgement was spot on and this week she joined the Godolphin team following her sale for 280,000gns. Her unraced dam is a half-sister to group-winning juvenile Perugina and to the dam of the Group 1 performers Bocca Baciata and Topeka.

An €80,000 investment in a daughter of Kodiac at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale by Roger Marley’s Church Farm paid handsome dividends when he and John Cullinan sold her to SackvilleDonald for 360,000gns.

The first foal of the listed-placed Dutch Art mare Graphic Guest will now join Richard Hannon to be trained. Alastair Donald faced stiff opposition for the filly from Jake Warren.

One of six Scat Daddys sold over the two days, Yeomanstown Stud’s daughter of the winning Speightstown mare Tipping Point transformed from being a $130,000 yearling into a 240,000gns breezer. Chris Dwyer was acting for Sheikh Rashid, owner of this year’s UAE Oaks winner Rayya. The filly will return to the USA to race.

Last year Ed Vaughan Racing paid just 17,000gns for a filly by Exceed And Excel out of the stakes-placed Haafhd mare Imperialistic Diva in Book 3 of the Tattersalls October Sale. She returned to the same ring and sold this time to Jake Warren for more than 13 times that valuation, realising 230,000gns.

Failing to sell at Arqana last August, Grove Stud’s Dark Angel half-sister to stakes winner Kassia and Mill Reef Stakes runner-up Rufford found favour this time, with BBA Ireland securing her for 200,000gns.