LADY Aurelia shone like a beacon at this year’s Fasig-Tipton November Sale, staged a day after the Breeders’ Cup meeting concluded at Churchill Downs. Brilliant winner of the Group 1 Prix Morny at two, she went on to capture the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes. Bidding stopped when it reached $7.5 million and made a significant contribution to the night’s record turnover of over $89 million.

Cartier Award winner Lady Aurelia returns to her breeder and co-owner Barbara Banke who made the purchase under Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and adds the European champion juvenile filly to her outstanding band of mares.

Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm made a number of significant purchases on the night, headed by a winning bid of $4.4 million for Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Stopchargingmaria.

The daughter of Tale Of The Cat was sold carrying her second foal, this time by three-time leading sire Tapit. Pope also paid $1.9 for Stopchargingmaria’s foal, a daughter of Pioneerof The Nile, almost double the sale’s previous best.

Another on Pope’s shopping last was the dual Grade 1 winner American Gal. The best runner sired by Tapit’s son Concord Point, she is out of a half-sister to Group/Grade 1 winners Seventh Street and Reynaldothewizard and cost Pope $3 million.

Coolmore’s love affair with Scat Daddy continues and M V Magnier won the day when his bid of $3.5 million was enough to secure Daddy’s Lil Darling, the Grade 1 American Oaks half-sister to Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Mongolian Saturday.

That $3.5 million price tag was matched by Stroud Coleman’s Anthony Stroud on behalf of Godolphin when he purchased Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes winner Pretty City Dancer, a daughter of Tapit, carrying her first foal by Medaglia D’Oro. She is one of a pair of Grade 1 winners from the unraced Pretty City.

Don Alberto Corporation made two high-price purchases, giving $3.15 million for Constellation and $3 million for Salty. The former won the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes and is carrying her first foal by Curlin, while the four-year-old Salty, a daughter of Quality Road, won this year’s Grade 1 La Troienne Stakes.

John and Leslie Malone’s Bridlewood Farm was listed as purchaser of Song Of Bernadette for $2.3 million and Drumette for $1.85 million. The first named is dam of this year’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes winner Catholic Boy and was sold in foal to War Front. Drumette was sold by Brendan and Olive Gallagher and Michael Hernon and she received a massive boost when her daughter Monomoy Girl won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff a day earlier. Drumette is in foal to first season sire Mastery.

A number of the high-priced lots were bought by Japanese interests, headed by last year’s champion Caledonia Road who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and was acquired by Narvick International for $2.3 million.

Haruya Yoshida gave $2 million for the Mastercraftsman mare A Raving Beauty who annexed a pair of Grade 1s in the USA and was third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Katsuma Yoshida made two purchases for $1.5 million each, recent Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes winner Fourstar Crook and 2018 Grade 1 Madison Stakes winner Finley’sluckycharm.

K I Farm in Japan paid $1.5 million for La Coronel and her five career victories included last year’s Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Stakes. Shadai Farm also appeared on the buyer’s list when giving $1.2 million for 2018 Grade 1 winner Fault who won the Santa Margarita Stakes.

Happy Like A Fool was runner-up last year in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and she is a dual Grade 3 winner in the USA. Blandford Bloodstock paid $1.45 million to acquire this daughter of Distorted Humor. The exploits of Alpha Centauri ensured plenty of interest in her Galileo sibling Galileo Gal, a winner at three in Canada. Craig Bernick secured her for $1.4 million.

David and Diane Nagle’s Barronstown Stud made two notable purchases. They paid $1.2 million for Appealing Zophie, the dam of 2017 Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit and in foal to his sire Tapit.

So Perfect’s exploits this year include winning a Group 3 at the Curragh and being placed in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, Cheveley Park Stakes and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. The Nagles now own her dam Hopeoverexperience, in foal to Into Mischief, after paying $1 million.

“We had a remarkable night of sales this evening,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “It’s a testament to the men and women who own the horses and the men and women who consign the horses.

“They entrusted their best with us. We’ve got a really good team, a group of people that work really hard, care about customers, and care about the business. I think everyone is kind of proud tonight. I know I am.”