AT the Tattersalls July Sale in 2018, just 17 months ago, the three-year-old filly Deadly Reel was sold for a mere 1,000gns. This daughter of Pour Moi (Montjeu) had been placed six times for trainer Archie Watson, while previously she was sold for €60,000 as a foal and again as a yearling.

At the time of that sale she was the second offspring but the first-named foal from Lady Ederle, a placed daughter of English Channel (Smart Strike). Her then two-year-old sibling, a filly named Nay Lady Nay (No Nay Never), was unraced, though she had sold as a breezer in March for $210,000. On the ground was a yearling own-brother to Nay Lady Lay, and a filly foal by Tara Stud’s Estidhkaar (Dark Angel).