WHILE the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale may lack the high-profile horses that hit headlines at recent breeze-up sales, Thursday’s renewals produced a number of feel-good stories.

The top lot, a Calyx filly bought by Middleham Park Racing for 155,000gns, was one of those; a perfectly executed plan two years in the making. As Donal Commins, whose family’s Albany Stud bred and consigned her, explained: “When this filly was a foal we decided to breeze her; we never entered in a foal or a yearling sale. The second she was born my father said she was fast! He fell in love with her and almost lived inside her stable.