AS ever, there were plenty of whoops of delight in the aftermath of some juicy pinhooking successes this week.

Chief among them was the 410,000gns sale of Yeomanstown Stud’s Sea The Moon colt out of an own-sister to recent Group 1 winner Pearls Galore. He was sourced last year at the December Sale for 110,000gns from Dermot Dwan’s Kellsgrange Stud.

Another 110,000gns foal buy, this time from Norelands Stud, was Church Farm and Horse Park Stud’s No Nay Never colt out of the Galileo mare Bright Sapphire, already the dam of six winners. MV Magnier spent 360,000gns to buy the colt, bred on the same cross as last week’s impressive group-winning juvenile, Midnight Mile.

The incredible year being enjoyed by Havana Grey was a huge help to Michael Fitzpatrick’s Kilminfoyle House Stud. That operation received 325,000gns from Karl Burke for the first foal out of a winning Swiss Spirit mare from the family of Broome. The colt was sold by Whitsbury Manor Stud as a foal for 56,000gns.

Saxon Warrior colts were popular with Jake Warren’s Highclere Agency and trainer Roger Varian, who respectively spent 320,000gns and 300,000gns to buy sons of the classic winner. The more expensive of the pair, a half-brother to stakes winner Hikmaa, cost Redpender Stud’s Jimmy Murphy just €72,000 last year at Goffs, while Glenvale Stud’s son of a winning Dansili mare was bought for €60,000 last November.

Two value pinhooks, both sold for 270,000gns, were Sakheer’s Exceed And Excel half-brother from Tom Brickley’s Ard Erin Stud, a 50,000gns foal, while the Hanly’s Ballyhimikin Stud turned their €56,000 foal purchase of a Night Of Thunder filly into a sale highlight.

A special word of congratulations to the all-female team behind the sale of a Havana Grey colt, the first foal of an unraced Xtension mare, who rose in value from a 21,000gns foal to a 150,000gns yearling. The colt was bought by Oceanic Bloodstock for White Birch Farm. The team consists of Alice Kavanagh of Kildaragh Stud, Florence Cain, Nicola Short and Fay Cort.