WHEN Islanmore Stud’s Starspangledbanner (Choisir) filly lit up the sale ring on the second day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday, selling for 900,000gns to Godolphin, she became the second highest-priced filly ever sold at Book 2 and the equal third highest-priced lot.

While her appeal was obvious, it was no harm at all that on the previous Friday, just up the road at Newmarket racecourse, a daughter of the same Coolmore sire, added the Group 1 bet365 Fillies’ Mile to her win a month earlier in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. Precise has won all her four starts since a second-place finish in a Fairyhouse maiden on her debut in early July, and she was victorious at Glorious Goodwood too in the Group 3 Prestige Stakes.