TWENTY-FIVE million-dollar yearlings. Turnover exceeding $100 million. They’re the headlines from a record-breaking Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, appropriately dubbed ‘The crown jewel of the North American yearling sales calendar’.

While the prize money and sales prices in America seem a world away from us, the buyers of the top lot were familiar, with the $4.1 million Into Mischief colt knocked down to Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier and Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm.