THE sale’s top two fillies both emerged late in the sale, and sold within minutes of each other. First to the mark was Kilcarn Park’s Zoffany filly out of the Galileo mare Curtsy. She sold for 350,000gns to Thady Gosden who was with his father John. The obvious attraction for Team Gosden was that she is out of a half-sister to the dam of their dual Group 1 winner Mishriff.

“She is a brilliant moving filly; she has some class about her,” said Gosden junior. “She is an exceptional type and it is a happening pedigree that we know well. She is for a new client and hopefully she will do well for them. This filly has a very nice pedigree and so she will have some residual value too.” The filly’s Group 3 winning grandam is a daughter of the French Oaks winner Rafha, the dam of Invincible Spirit.