After the heights of the Derby Sale trade was of an altogether different variety at the Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale on Thursday whose final returns dropped well off the results of both 2018 and 2019.

The second day of last week’s Land Rover Sale indicated that this sector of the market would feel the effects of the current situation more acutely than others and this was borne out by a clearance rate which dropped from 74% to 57%.