THE two-day Goffs Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster wrapped up on Wednesday evening with a clearance rate of 86% and total turnover of £16,262,000.

The average price of £45,809 was up 4% on last year and the median remained steady at £35,000.

Tuesday's top price of £200,000 was not matched on Wednesday, the biggest price on day two coming when Godolphin paid £180,000 for a son from the first crop of their champion Pinatubo.

The colt was sold by Eugene Daly's Longview Stud in Chester and is a half-brother to Al Raya, a Group 3 winner for Simon Crisford in 2019.

On Tuesday Longview sold a Blue Point colt to agents Sackville Donald for the amount - £180,000.

Godolphin's buying team of Anthony Stroud and David Loder liked the Pinatubo colt during inspections, and it was the operation’s Jono Mills who signed the docket.

“Just a lovely individual, who Anthony and David loved,” was Mills’ verdict.

Oliver St Lawrence signed for a son of Yeomanstown Stud’s Dark Angel for £170,000. The colt, a full-brother to Rockfel Stakes winner Juliet Capulet, was consigned by Yeomanstown Stud themselves.

“The page says it all,” said St Lawrence. “The mare has done well with Dark Angel covers time and time again. This looks a ready-made two-year-old and is hopefully one for Royal Ascot.”

Alex Elliott revealed that the Mehmas colt he and Billy Jackson-Stops signed for at £95,000 on Tuesday, and the Mayson full-sister to listed winner Dance Diva the pair bought for £120,000 on Wednesday, are for a new partnership of two owners who will have their horses with Andrew Balding, Ralph Beckett and George Scott.

“This filly was our pick of the sale,” said Elliott. “She has a brilliant page and the physical to match, so she should make a decent racehorse, but even if she stubbed her toe she’s still got serious residual value.

Agent Mick Flanagan had a busy day, having the final say at £120,000 on a Starspangledbanner filly from Redpender Stud, acting on behalf of Cormac McCormack, and buying a Kodiac filly from Lynn Lodge Stud for himself for £90,000.

The daughter of Starspangledbanner, out of a half-sister to the sire’s Balanchine Stakes winner Aloha Star, was bought for a partnership and will go into training with Fozzy Stack, who oversaw the career of that filly. “The stallion is doing it in both hemispheres and with both colts and fillies, and this lot was a lovely example of his stock,” reported Flanagan.

As for the Kodiac filly, a half-sister to stakes winners Artistic Rifles and Balty Boys, he added: “I just bought her on spec, as she’s a lovely sharp sort and very well related. We’ll have to come up with a plan for her now!”

Folland-Bowen Bloodstock celebrated their best result at this sale on Wednesday, with the Mohaather filly out of Blue Geranium sold to Johnny McKeever and Charlie Hills for £105,000 eclipsing the £85,000 they received for a Land Force colt at last year’s auction.

Natalie Folland, who runs the operation out of Fonthill Stud near Salisbury with her partner Matt Bowen, said: “She was sold on behalf of her breeder Jane Keir, our former landlord at Elkington Stud, and we’re delighted for her. She’s a very loyal client. When we left to set up at Fonthill Stud she said she’d close up and send her mares to us as she didn’t want anyone else looking after them.

“The filly prepped beautifully and we thought she might make 40 or 50 thousand, but you never really know what you’ve got until you bring them to the sales, and she’s been showing well all week; she’s never put a foot wrong. In fact, the more shows she did, the better she got."

Clive Cox spent £100,000 on Kildaragh Stud’s Harry Angel colt out of the winning Dutch Art mare Anna Of Lorraine.

Cox, who trained Harry Angel, said: "It’s extremely exciting and fills me with great pride to see horses in the catalogue that I’ve trained. It’s a wonderful feeling as it’s all very much a dream in the early stages. To see horses that you’ve trained developing into stallions of such regard is a source of real pride and I’m very proud that there’s seven horses standing in Europe that I trained.”

Paul Winters, who played as a forward on Dublin's senior hurling team from 2014 to 2019, made a successful start to consigning under his own name in Doncaster this week, with both pinhooks he presented to market selling for solid profits.

His Tasleet half-sister to Brocklesby Stakes winner Doddie’s Impact sold to Fionn McSharry, Tim Stottard and Ralph Hadley for £36,000 on Tuesday, and his Inns Of Court half-sister to smart pair It Just Takes Time and Wejdan sold to John Kilbride for £40,000 on Wednesday.

“I’m pleased with that,” said Winters, who still plays with St Brigid's in Castleknock. “The Tasleet sold really well and the Inns Of Court doubled her money, so I can’t complain. All the money will be going back into reinvesting at the foal sales, don’t worry about that!”

Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent commented: "It’s been a fantastic few days in Doncaster with an incredible atmosphere generated by the huge number of people who’ve visited our vibrant sales complex.

"Vendors have been quick to say that we are missing no one, the car park has been full since the weekend, and our party on Sunday night set the atmosphere nicely for the week ahead.

“In the ring it has been great to see the sale make advances in turnover and average, with the latter growing 4% to £45,809 which is the third highest figure achieved in the history of this sale.

"The number of six-figure lots also grew on last year, moving to 28 for the two days and, despite not having an obvious standout lot, the top of the market was very strong with plenty of bidders looking for what they believed to be the best horses on offer and frenzied bidding at the very top."

DAY 2 STATISTICS

Offered: 193

Sold: 162 (84%)

Aggregate: £7,020,500 (0%)

Average: £43,337 (+1%)

Median: £34,000 (+6%)