DAY one of the two-day Tattersalls October Book 3 Sale on Thursday produced a set of figures so remarkably like those of 12 months earlier that I had to double-check I was not making a mistake. As the yearling sale season goes on it would have been reasonable to expect that the demand for stock would reduce. However, the appetite of buyers appears to be just as great.

Last year’s sale produced a trio of six-figure yearlings, while there were four through the ring on Thursday when the sale got under way. Incredibly, the four lots this year all sold for the same amount, 130,000gns, a phenomenon I don’t recall happening before. The quartet were by four different sires, from four different vendors and were sold to four different buyers.