ALMOST 18 million guineas was spent on foals at Tattersalls on Friday but there was further evidence of a correction in the market, as the day's aggregate (-11%), median (-9%) and average price (-13%) were all significantly back on last year's numbers.

The well-named Group 1 Oaks winner Talent is already the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet runner-up Ambition, and the new owners of the mare’s St Mark’s Basilica filly foal, purchased on Friday, will have to find an equally appropriate name for their purchase, who sold for 575,000gns and was bought by Jill Lamb Bloodstock on behalf of Newsells Park Stud.