ELSEWHERE on this page I have written about the mare Xaloc, carrying a three-parts sibling to Foundation and she is catalogued as Lot 444 on Thursday at Goffs.

The very next lot due into the ring is the Sadler’s Wells mare Precious Gem, carrying an attractive covering by Kodiac. She received a timely sales boost when her second foal, a three-year-old colt by Sea The Stars, won last week on his debut. Owned and bred by Lady Bamford and trained by Sir Mark Prescott, Flymetothestars could be a horse to watch for and some blacktype might even be his before the year is out.