USEFUL was an interesting entry recently for the Tattersalls August Online Sale, but was withdrawn and ‘didn’t come under the hammer’, so to speak.

Listed as being out of training, the three-year-old unraced filly Useful (Galileo) had been in the care of William Haggas, owned by Zhang Yuesheng, and she was purchased as a yearling by BBA Ireland for €430,000 at Goffs. This looked like it might well have been value, given that 12 months earlier, and in the same ring, her full-sister Starry Eyed (Galileo) was hammered down to M.V. Magnier for €1.5 million.