HYDE Park Stud’s John Bourke knows value when he sees it, and last year he paid a mere €4,500 at the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale for a yearling filly from the second crop of Sands Of Mali (Panis), bred and sold by Rathbride Farm.

With her yearling daughter making so little, and her second foal only winning in Serbia, No More Thrills (Dutch Art) was sold at Goffs shortly afterwards for just €4,000 to an Italian buyer. She was covered by Space Traveller (Bated Breath). A few days before No More Thrills was moved on, her filly foal by Dandy Man (Mozart) was purchased by Fernham Farm for €9,000. None of these amounts were significant, but can all be seen as bargains now.