A WELL-BRED breeding prospect offered by Kiltinan Castle Stud topped the Tattersalls Online January Sale at 49,000gns. Blandford Bloodstock’s Richard Brown provided the highest bid for Gleaming Crown, an unraced three-year-old filly by Wootton Bassett, out of the listed-winning Galileo mare Dazzling.

Blandford Bloodstock bought Dazzling herself as a yearling for 925,000gns on behalf of Coolmore partners, and she went on to place in two Group 3s, as well as gaining a stakes win. Resold for 300,000gns last month, the own-sister to dual Group 1 winner Roderic O’Connor is the dam of a graded performer in the US.