PART 2 of the Arqana Deauville Yearling Sale came agonisingly close to matching last year’s record totals, with the session topped by a daughter of Acclamation from the all-conquering Ecurie des Monceaux.

The filly is the first foal out of a Shamardal half-sister to Wild Wind. That daughter of Danehill Dancer won a listed race and was placed in the French 1000 Guineas for Aidan O’Brien before being sold for €1,175,000 as a four-year-old. This is the immediate family of Group 1 winners Rumplestiltskin, Tapestry and Real Steel, while the sale-topper’s fourth dam is Miesque, dam of Kingmambo.