FRANKEL’S six yearlings sold averaged almost €425,000 and the best of the week at €700,000 was Ecurie des Monceaux’s daughter of a Cape Cross half-sister to Group 1 winner Plumania and to the dam of the Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Left Hand. She was Lot 4 and agent Michel Zerolo was frustrated in his efforts to secure the filly, described by her purchaser Shawn Dugan as “stunning, impossible to fault”.

Another American buyer signed for Frankel’s daughter of listed winner Ascot Family. This time it was Justin Casse who paid €535,000 for the filly, a half-sister to Group 2 Prix Robert Papin winner Family One, from Haras des Capucines.