BELLA Veneta, a winning Belardo three-year-old filly, headed Thursday’s Tattersalls Ascot Sale when she was bought by Ben Pearson on behalf of owner Paramount Timber for £30,000.

The filly, who was previously in training with Rae Guest, was sold by Wayne Hawkins, and is now heading to trainer Frank Bishop in Worcestershire. “She has had a bit of a break, she will go back into training and hopefully she will win again,” reported Pearson, who was taking instructions from her new owner over the telephone.

He added: “She was recommended to us by the yard and that was the top end for us. The owners have a few yearlings in training and were looking for one to run for them over the winter.” Bred by Deerfield Farm, the filly is out of a half-sister to Motivator, the joint-champion three-year-old of 2005, winner of that year’s Group 1 Epsom Derby.

A three-year-old daughter of Telescope out of the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 Supreme Novices Hurdle third Amaretto Rose is heading to Ireland and the point-to-point field, having been bought by former jockey Darren O’Dwyer for Andy Pierce’s Blackhall Stud. She was sold by Shade Oak Stud on behalf of Sosb Ltd.

O’Dwyer was at Ascot on bidding duty and spent £22,000 on the filly. He said: “I like the sire; we have had a bit of luck with him and we have been lucky here before. She has a bit of size about her and they do a good job at Shade Oak. She has a pedigree and if she can get anywhere close to winning she will make her money back. Telescope has done very well.”

Amaretto Rose has already produced a winner in Belle Amis, and that daughter of Black Same Bellamy was also placed in a listed mares’ bumper.

Online bid

Sobegrand was sold to an online bid of £20,000 from Robert Brinkley. Offered by John and Thady Gosden’s Clarehaven Stables as a wildcard entry, the Decorated Knight three-year-old colt has run three times and has a BHA rating of 77. He finished second on his first career start and fourth last time out at Newcastle. He is a half-brother to Aljazzi, winner of the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes.

A pair of lots sold for 15,000gns each. Wildcard entry Wee Willie Nail, a four-year-old son of Yeats, sold to Richard Harper, and this four-year-old won over hurdles at Gowran Park in September for Gordon Elliot. A placed two-year-old son of Prince Of Lir sold for the same amount from Richard Hughes’ yard.