FILLIES and mares are a small part of the annual cull at the Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale, the better bred among them usually being kept for the December Sale which attracts breeders from all around the world to Park Paddocks.

This year’s sale topper, a record maker, was one, the Marco Botti-trained Aljazzi. The Group 2 winning daughter of Shamardal was knocked down to Newsells Park Stud’s Julian Dollar for 1,000,000gns. Dollar was delighted to get her, saying: “She is a lovely, talented filly. She is for Newsells and we are looking for high-end performing fillies. She has speed and could perform at the highest level over seven furlongs.

“She will be retired now, she has done her racing. She has an outcross pedigree - she is by the exciting young broodmare sire Shamardal - and we will have to think about a stallion, but there are many options. I have to thank the boss for being so brave with the bidding.”

Tony Nerses of Blue Diamond Stud represents the filly’s owner-breeders Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar and he had mixed emotions afterwards. “She was my beauty queen! It is sad to see her go - to have bred a filly of her calibre from a second generation purchased pedigree is quite something.

“We offered her in this sale so that she would be a stand out; I am happy with the price. I am delighted that she has been bought by Newsells, she couldn’t have gone to a better farm. I wish them all the best of luck with her. She will be difficult to replace, but we will have to find another like her now.”

Aljazzi gave trainer Marco Botti his first Royal Ascot winner. “She has been a great filly for us and is an honest straightforward filly,” he remarked. “I have to thank the owners for keeping her in training this year - it paid off for them and us. She will tick all the boxes as a broodmare - she had talent, has a pedigree and is a good model.”

Nerses had earlier invested, with the assistance of trainer John Butler, in a blue-chip filly when he purchased, for Blue Diamond Stud, a two-year-old Dansili half-sister to the Gimcrack Stakes winner Ajaya. From the family of Group 1 winner Cityscape and leading young sire Bated Breath, she cost 320,000gns and was bred by Al Homaizi and Al Sagar, Nerses having bought Lady Rasha’s dam Nessina for 300,000gns in 2012.

Jousi, a winning three-year-old daughter of Dubawi, won for her breeders Al Homaizi and Al Sagar and she too was listed as having being sold to Blue Diamond Stud for 100,000gns. She was offered for sale on behalf of trainer Hugo Palmer by The Castlebridge Consignment.

The two-year-old Bated Breath filly Feel Glorious was placed in a listed race in Germany after the catalogue for the sale went to press, and this made a significant contribution towards her ring price of 130,000gns when she was sold to Stephen Hillen. Raced from the stables of George Baker and winner of a maiden over six furlongs at Goodwood, she now heads to the USA to join the yard of Christophe Clement.

Gerry Burke has had ownership of Check Your Pockets for longer than he might have liked, but it all came good when she sold to Saudi Arabian owner Abdulrahman Fahad M Albawardi for 115,000gns. She was trained by John Kiely to win three times.

Bought for 30,000gns as a yearling and twice a winner for Roger Varian this year as a two-year-old, the Kodiac filly Thriving heads stateside to continue her racing career after selling for 110,000gns to Red Baron’s Barn and Rancho Temescal.