REDICEAN, a fluent Redcar winner for David O’Meara a day before going to the sales, was snapped up by Alan King for 85,000 guineas on behalf of Apple Tree Stud.

This may prove a bargain, given today’s inflated prices, and the three-year-old, by Medicean out of the Galileo mare Red Halo, started well enough with a clear-cut victory in the opening 32Red Casino Introductory Juvenile Hurdle.