REDHOTFILLYPEPPERS. Remember the name as this most impressive point-to-point winner at Necarne in mid-May will now join the all-conquering team at Willie Mullins following her sale on Thursday at the Tattersalls Ireland Cheltenham May Sale for £200,000. Harold Kirk signed for the four-year-old daughter of Robin Des Champs and she was his only purchase on the day.

The sale represented a major profit for Donnchadh Doyle who bought her as a store at last year’s Goffs Land Rover Sale for €29,000. By the sire of Quevega and out of a half-sister to the dam of On His Own, the filly was perhaps always destined to join Mullins.

Last year’s renewal of the sale also saw a mare sell for £200,000, then a record price for a point-to-point mare.

Doyle’s Monbeg Stables had a bonanza of a sale and under Donnchadh’s banner sold five lots for £625,000. Sean Doyle also sold one of the top lots at £88,000.

Three of the half a dozen lots to realise six-figure sums were sold by Donnchadh Doyle and the others were Secret Investor and Super Follo. The first of these, a four-year-old son of Kayf Tara, won his only start at Athlacca at the beginning of the month and he was sold to Tom Malone on behalf of Paul Nicholls for £175,000. He had come from last year’s Derby Sale when he cost Doyle €38,000.

Secret Investor is a son of Kayf Tara and is out of Silver Charmer who was twice successful in listed hurdles at Cheltenham.

Super Follo was another Doyle purchase at the 2015 Derby Sale when the son of Enrique cost €30,000. Third to Lough Derg Spirit on his debut at Athlacca, he followed up the following weekend with a victory at Bartlemy and Noel Meade will now train him after his sale to Mags O’Toole for £150,000.

Sean Doyle sold Searching For Gold to Highflyer Bloodstock and Charlie Longsdon for £88,000 and this Ballindenisk winner was leaving profit on his £37,000 DBS Spring Sale price last May. The four-year-old son of Gold Well is out of a six-time winning dam. Highflyer bought a total of 13 lots, a fifth of the catalogue, in their own name or with trainers.

Donnchadh Doyle may have grabbed the headlines but there was also an exceptional sale for lots consigned from Denis Murphy’s Ballyboy Stables. His five lots sold averaged more than £100,000 and included three of the top 10 prices. Leading the group, and the second highest price at the sale, was the aforementioned Lough Derg Spirit who landed a maiden at Athlacca on his second start.

A half-brother by Westerner to Sizing Machine, he cost Highflyer Bloodstock’s Anthony Bromley £190,000 and left his purchase price of €45,000 by Pat Coffey at the Derby Sale last June well in the shade. He will now join Nicky Henderson’s yard.

Murphy also sold the Oscar four-year-old Drovers Lane for six-figures on behalf of Coffey, Rebecca Curtis’ bid of £135,000 securing the Necarne winner by eight lengths. The gelding came out of the Goffs Land Rover Sale last year when he cost just €21,000. Minella Rebellion, another from Murphy’s yard, was beaten a neck on his only run at Dawstown and this son of King’s Theatre was knocked down to Highflyer Bloodstock for £90,000.

Bloodstock agent Tom Malone bought four lots in his own name and the five-year-old Milan gelding One More Hero was one of these. Winner on his second outing at Dromahane in late April, he was consigned by Denis Ahern’s Ballyknock Stables and comes from the family of the dual Whitbread Gold Cup winner Topsham Bay. Ahern also bred the gelding.

Two other five-year-olds made their mark at the sale. James Motherway paid €14,000 for a then three-year-old son of the Mtoto horse Coroner at the 2014 Land Rover Sale and this recent bumper winner at Tipperary, named Westendorf, now joins Jonjo O’Neill after his sale for £85,000.

Victory in a maiden at Ballindenisk at the start of the month ensured a great deal of interest in Glen Rocco, a son of Shirocco sent to the sale by Paul Cashman’s Glenview Stables. Nick Gifford signed for him at £80,000.

The aggregate increased by 23% to £3,206,000 while the median grew by 13% to £40,000. The average declined by 11% from £57,191 to £50,889 and there was a much improved clearance rate of 89%.