FRIDAY’S session at the December Foal Sale was only minutes old when Capital Bloodstock paid 220,000gns for a May-foaled Kodiac half-brother to Grade 3 runner-up Jeremy’s Legacy, sold by the Gleeson’s Mullingar-based Aughamore Stud. He has been bought for a family to race in Britain according to Capital’s Neil Gilchrist.

Mick Flanagan triumphed in his quest to secure the own-sister to recent Group 1 Champions Sprint Stakes runner-up Tasleet, a Group 2 winner, from her breeders Whitsbury Manor Stud for 220,000gns.

“It was more than we wanted to spend, plenty to give for her, but it is difficult to buy fillies with pedigrees such as this,” said Flanagan. “She is by a proven sire in Showcasing, out of Cadeaux Genereux mare, the dam sire of Harry Angel - she has it on the top and the bottom of her pedigree.

“We pushed the boat last year on a Kingman colt paying 180,000gns - we were going to sink or swim - and luckily we were rewarded with a €650,000 sale, so we had a little bit to put toward a purchase such as this. She will go back to Ireland and will be reoffered through Baroda and Colbinstown - hopefully for a profit!” Flanagan added.

The prolific Exceed And Excel was responsible for a colt from Ballylinch Stud which made 210,000gns and was bought by Jamie Railton Sales Agency. He is a first foal out of Falling Petals, a half-sister to the dam of dual group winner and Group 1-placed Cotai Glory, who is also a son of Exceed And Excel.

Falling Petals was purchased for €235,000 by China Horse Club last year.

Jamie Railton secured a second son of Exceed And Excel and again he cost 210,000gns. This time it was Norelands Stud’s own-brother to the multiple group-placed two-year-old Burwaaz, one of six winners for her stakes-winning dam Nidhaal. He followed The Castlebridge Consignment’s Golden Horn colt, the first foal of the American stakes-winning two-year-old She’s Complete, and he sold to Cormac McCormack for 200,000gns.