“SHE would grace any paddock in the world.” With these words auctioneer Alastair Pim introduced what he suggested, correctly, was the star of the show.

As darkness fell on the sales yard at Tattersalls late on Friday afternoon, Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Kingman half-sister to Chaldean, himself a 550,000gns foal and winner of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, Group 2 Champagne Stakes and Group 3 Acomb Stakes, and the favourite for next year’s 2000 Guineas, strode into the sale ring.