ON Monday and Tuesday the sales focus will be very much on Japan and the select sale of yearlings and foals. A total of 248 of the former are catalogued to go under the hammer on Monday, followed the next day by 243 foals.

Trying to select possible sale toppers is somewhat of a lottery, but it is also fair to say that any shortlist of contenders will include offspring of the sire phenomenon that is Deep Impact. His fee for the 2016 season was three times more than the next stallion with stock at the sale, King Kamehameha. The champion stallion has 21 yearlings and 16 foals catalogued,