WHOEVER buys the horse is the maddest person on the day, or so said Stuart Williams, after going to 190,000gns for Andrew Balding’s improving three-year-old Humam on the opening day of the Tattersalls July Sale.

A two-time winner on the all-weather early in the year, the Kodiac half-brother to Vadream was last seen making all in a seven-furlong handicap at York last month, which saw his rating rise to 92. Tuesday’s price was a drop down from the 260,000gns Al Shaqab paid for him at the venue’s Book 1 Sale, and the €230,000 Tally-Ho Stud pinhooked him for.