ON the day it was announced that Enable would be covered by Kingman, a yearling colt by the same stallion fetched the top price of 400,000gns during the opening session of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in Newmarket.

The statistics for the session were very strong and not far off last year’s numbers. Some 214 of the 253 lots offered were sold at an average price of 71,030gns. Today’s clearance rate of 85% was actually higher than the same day last year (82%) and the average price was just 9% down. The median price of 52,000gns was a mere 5% off last year’s figure.