JOSEPH O’Brien on Tuesday paid €750,000 for a half-sister to State Of Rest, the top price during the opening session of the Goffs Orby Book 1.

State Of Rest won four Group/Grade 1 races for O’Brien before retiring to stand at Rathbarry Stud. The trainer also handled State Of Rest’s Group 3-winning half-sister Tranquil Lady. Repose, their dam, was sold last year by Dermot and Meta Cantillon of Tinnakill House Stud to Juddmonte, but they retained her then Sea The Stars filly foal.