COOLMORE may have lost out on the top lot on Tuesday at Tattersalls but they made up for it during Wednesday's session of the October Yearling Sale Book 1 when buying four of the seven top-priced lots.

Three of the four were colts and were all bought by Coolmore's M.V. Magnier in partnership with Peter Brant's White Birch Farm. Top of the list was a Frankel colt bred by Anthony Oppenheimer who fetched two million guineas, the biggest price achieved so far this week.

Magnier, standing in the gangway, saw off opposition from Godolphin and Juddmonte to buy the colt out of Bizzarria (by Lemon Drop Kid). She is an own-sister to the Canadian International Stakes winner Cannock Chase and the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner Pisco Sour, and a half-sister to the three-time Group 1-winning filly Star Catcher (by Sea The Stars).

"He is lovely horse and from a very successful stud in Hascombe, which has bred very good horses in the past and are very good breeders," said Magnier. "This is a well-bred horse, Frankel is flying and everyone [from the Coolmore team] liked him – and he goes to Ballydoyle."

Oppenheimer, who was sat in the ring to see his colt sell, said: "So far we have done quite well, and sold four, and he have more to sell [over the whole of the October Sale]. There were no regrets at all when he was going around the ring. I did not think we'd get as much as that."

Baattash half-brother

Four yearlings on Wednesday made seven-figure prices, compared with two on Tuesday. Sheikh Mohammed was the top buyer on Tuesday and he made his presence felt again on Wednesday when paying 1.5 million guineas for a Blue Point half-brother to champion sprinter Baattash, consigned and bred by Paul and Marie McCartan's Ballyphilip Stud in Bruree, Co Limerick.

"I have not said it to many people, but I think he is the nicest horse I have ever had anything to do with, I really think that," Paul McCartan commented. "I had always put Battaash number one, but when this colt got here and did everything right and everything came together... I think he is an absolute belter. I am delighted that Godolphin bought him and that Charlie Appleby will train him. He is the image of his father and his grandfather, Charlie loved him and could see that, too."

Of the decision to send his brilliant broodmare Anna Law to the young stallion Blue Point, recently a Group 1 winner-producing sire, McCartan said: "It was probably an act of lunacy to take such a risk with a mare who is so important to us – I probably should have sent her to a proven horse rather than a first-crop horse. But I was there the day Blue Point beat Battaash in the King's Stand. I thought Battaash looked great that day but I saw Blue Point come into the parade ring and I had one look at him and one look at Charlie Appleby and I said, 'We are not going to be winning today!'"

McCartan was keen to thank his team for all the efforts at home and on the sale ground saying, "I want to pay particular thanks to all the people who work for me, everyone knows they are the best team on the sale ground. My head lad Denis Lawlor, he never comes to the sales and Dinny McCarthy, who led up, they have all done a fantastic job. It is one of the most enjoyable parts of this for me – that we can all share it, we are all good friends."

Updating on Anna Law's recent coverings, he said: "She has a filly foal by Dark Angel and is in-foal to Frankel. It is a different approach, but he is the best stallion probably of all time, so why not?

"She has been an incredible mare to us. She started off a pretty grumpy old girl, but now every time she sees me in the field she knows I always have a fistful of nuts for her so we are the best of friends!"

Anthony Stroud, buying for Godolphin, said: "He was one that we wanted. Paul McCartan has had Tiggy Wiggy, Profitable, Harry Angel and so many more, it is a great nursery and they do a fantastic job. He is the horse that we thought would enhance Godolphin. I hope that we are standing here in two years' time and agreeing that this is one of the best that Paul has bred."

Underbidders included Najd Stud and Juddmonte.

Kilkenny breeder

Another colt to sell for over a million was the son of Wootton Bassett bred and sold by James Cloney's Clara Stud in Higginstown, Co Kilkenny. A half-brother to Group 1 Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde, he was was bought by M.V. Magnier and White Birch Farm for 1.25 million guineas.

Cloney, whose father-in-law Micheál Nolan runs the stud, said: "The horse really sold himself, he is a lovely horse. It is a once in a lifetime to have such a beautiful horse, he is the right shape, the right size, has the right walk and the right pedigree.

Cloney, with BBA Ireland, purchased the dam Entreat for just 14,000gns at the Tattersalls July Sale in 2016 from Cheveley Park Stud. She was sold in-foal to Lethal Force, a covering that produced Golden Horde. She has since produced Line Of Departure to a covering by Mehmas in 2017 – he won the 2021 running of the Cathedral Stakes – as well as two further winners.

In total Entreat has had seven winners from eight runners.

"Entreat is a special mare and just really produces top quality stock. Entreat has a beautiful Dark Angel filly foal, but she is barren at the moment. We also have a daughter at home called Dutch Treaty.

Ballylinch sale

Another Kilkenny farm, Ballylinch Stud, hit the jackpot when selling a Lope De Vega full-brother to this season's Group 2 winner Iberian for 1.1 million guineas to owner Nurlan Bizakov. The colt is out of the listed winner Bella Estrella (by High Chaparral), a daughter of the Grade 2 winner Uncharted Haven, the dam of the Group 3 winner High Heeled and granddam of the 1000 Guineas winner Just The Judge.

Day two of the sale saw 134 (84%) of the 160 lots offered sell for an average price 265,664gns, which was 23% down on last year. Total spending on the day was back 28% but the median price of 195,000gns was just 3% lower than last year.

Godolphin remain the busiest buyers, snagging a total of 17 yearlings so far for a total spend of just over 10 million guineas.

The sale concludes on Thursday.