INTRICATELY was the outstanding offering on the first day of the 2017 Tattersalls December Sale and she lived up to expectations, commanding a value of 1,700,000gns when the hammer fell in favour of John and Jake Warren.

The three-year-old daughter of Fastnet Rock provided trainer Joseph O’Brien with his first Group 1 success in last year’s Moyglare Stud Stakes, and this year ran fourth in the Irish 1000 Guineas.