SEVEN of the eight yearlings bought in Book 2 this week by Sheikha Hissa’s Shadwell Estate were fillies, at an average price of more than 190,000gns, and the purchasers were welcome participants at the sale.

The most expensive of their purchases was a Siyouni filly out of the stakes-placed New Approach mare Dancing Breeze. She cost Angus Gold’s team 350,000gns. The filly was bred by Merry Fox Stud and sold by The Castlebridge Consignment, and Bill Dwan said: “Craig Bennett and Merry Fox Stud has been a great supporter of ours; I am really pleased for him. She is a lovely filly, she looks fast and I am delighted that Shadwell have bought her.”

A filly from the first crop of Too Darn Hot, out of the winning Shamardal mare Secret Sense, cost Shadwell Estate 320,000gns, and she was sold by Newsells Park Stud. She is the fourth produce and third yearling sold out of the mare to fetch over 300,000gns. Angus Gold commented: “She looks a very tough filly; there is a masculine look about her and plenty of Shamardal, and she is a good mover. A remit of what we are trying to do is find fillies with pedigrees, and she has one of the best pages in the book.

“I saw her at the farm last week, and liked her, and Sheikha Hissa liked her and was very keen to get her.”

Secret Sense is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning Galileo brothers Japan and Mogul, Group 2 winner Secret Gesture, Group 3 winner Sir Isaac Newton, and Australian listed winner Maurus.