A €310,000 daughter of Kapgarde, who is the highest priced lot to come under the hammer at this sale in four years, stole the show on day one of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale when selling to Gordon Elliott to head an excellent day’s trade.

Recent portents in the store market boded well for this sale and such optimism was realised by a session which yielded 16 six figure transactions and a turnover of just over €8.6m which was a 13% progression on last year.