THE fourth lot in the ring in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale on Tuesday was a son of Frankel and the listed winning Diktat mare Dash To The Front. Bred by Meon Valley Stud, he realised 500,000gns when selling to Shadwell Estate.

His prospects were not harmed when the James Fanshawe-trained Speedy Boarding agonisingly denied Jim Bolger’s Godolphin-owned Pleascach in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera Longines.