AT 4,800,000gns, Barnavara topped a historic day at Tattersalls on Tuesday, which became the highest-grossing day in European auction history, with total sales of 57,695,415gns. A mysterious online bidder signing as Sugar Whiskey Trading delivered the final bid for Jessica Harrington’s Prix de l’Opera heroine, who became the highest-priced filly in training in the world this year, beating the 4,500,000gns record set by Porta Fortuna earlier in the night.

The Irish-trained fillies were the most expensive of 11 lots to sell for a million or more on the night, matching the previous record set at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. The session’s average price of 287,042gns marked a 4% increase on last year’s figure, while the median dropped by 8% to 110,000gns.