ONLINE sales offer vendors a chance to sell with reduced expenses and simpler logistics, which will have been appreciated by many consigning in the Tattersalls Online February Sale. Just 39% of 126 lots offered found a buyer, including four of the top 13 lots.

Last month’s impressive Naas winner, The Other Mozzie, was an expected highlight, but the highest bid of 145,000gns failed to meet the reserve set for Gavin Cromwell’s charge. Top lot status instead went to the five-year-old mare Red Maids, who sold to Billy Jackson-Stops and Moigne Comb Stud for 64,000gns.

“Moigne Combe Stud are well-known on the polo scene,” Jackson-Stops later said of his Dorset-based client. “It’s a family we can watch improve and, as an Invincible Spirit mare, she could work well with the Dubawi line, which has produced the likes of Notable Speech.”

The next highest price of 62,000gns was bid by a vendor and, following a private sale to Mildmay Bloodstock, a breeding right to Kameko was credited as the second-highest priced lot of the sale at 60,000gns.

The Tweenhills Stud stallion made a bright start with his first runners last season, led by Grade 1 Summer Stakes victor, New Century and Futurity Trophy third, Wimbledon Hawkeye.

Another breeding right garnered the next highest price of 23,000gns, paid by Childwickbury Stud for a breeding right to Ardad, the sire of Perfect Power.

On the same afternoon of the sale, Solomon Coop advertised the value that can be found at Tattersalls Online sales when winning a Dundalk maiden on his first start for Eamon O’Connell. The Twilight Son gelding had been bought by Eoin O’Connell for just 1,400gns in December.