THE Derby Sale top lot came late in the second session on Thursday when Timmy Hillman’s Castledillon Stud offered a handsome Kayf Tara gelding.

A number of bidders made a play for the son of the three-time winner Miss Bailly, including Ian Ferguson and Matt Coleman but it was Eddie O’Leary, standing alongside Gordon Elliott, who won the battle when the hammer dropped at €265,000. It was the highest price paid for a store horse at public auction this year.