Sea The Stars was responsible for three of the top four lot at Tuesday's session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2.

During last week's Book 1 sale, 22 yearlings by the Gilltown Stud sire sold for an average price of 415,455gns, putting the stallion behind only Frankel, Wootton Bassett and Dubawi in the sire league table.

However, Sea The Stars is running away with the Book 2 leading stallion list. After two sessions, he has had 12 yearlings sell at an average price of 306,250gns.

On Monday Godolphin bought two Sea The Stars colts for 875,000gns and 475,000gns - the day's two top lots.

Sheikh Mohammed's team came back for more on Tuesday at Tattersalls, going to 550,000gns for the a Sea The Stars colt from Folland-Bowen Bloodstock and bred by Fiona Marner of Windmill Farm in Berkshire.

This colt is out of the Shamardal mare Kitcarina. A delighted Marner said she bought the mare out of André Fabre's yard as a maiden and put her in training with Andrew Balding, who trained her to win a race, albeit a modest all-weather handicap.

"We sent her to Sea The Stars for her first cover, a foal share kindly arranged by the late John Clarke, and went back to the sire again and produced this colt," she said. "He foaled with me and spent his time with us until going to Natalie and Matt to prep, they are based at Fonthill Stud and it is such a lovely farm, beautiful land. This colt has always been just such a lovely person and individual, and I am so pleased for Natalie and Matt, it is so nice to see young people getting on."

The mare had a filly by Baaeed this spring and was covered by Showcasing.

Godolphin's best horses by Sea The Stars to date include the French-trained Cloth Of Stars and the Charlie Appleby-trained pair Endless Time and Ottoman Fleet.

They clearly still have a lot of faith in the sire, judging by their purchases in recent weeks.

At Goffs two weeks ago Godolphin spent €900,000 on a Sea The Stars colt from Norelands Stud, and last week at Tattersalls they acquired a 1.6 million guineas Sea The Stars colt from Kildaragh Stud.

Thoroughbred Corporation

A filly by Sea The Stars was the very last lot into the ring on Tuesday evening and she made the day's joint top price of 600,00gns.

She was offered by Stauffenberg Bloodstock and is the first foal out of the Siyouni mare Monaawara, who was a two-year-old winner in the French provinces.

The buyer was The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation, whose principal backer is Prince Ahmed bin Salman of the Saudi Arabian royal family. Their representative Jane Mangan said: "The stallion is alright isn't he? We have been trying to buy the right type of filly for the last two weeks and we got two last week.

"This filly stood out, I thought she is the best filly in this book. She comes from a great farm, she is just very easy on the eye, there is no mystery here! She is the first foal out of a Siyouni mare, and we are very happy to get her."

Twomey to train

Paddy Twomey will train the Sea The Stars filly bought by agent Jason Kelly for 525,000gns. This one is out of the Yorkshire Oaks runner-up Makawee and was sold by Harry Dutfield on behalf of breeders the Turrnbull family from Elwick Stud, in partnership with Sunderland Holdings.

"Wow!," exclaimed Dutfield. "I didn't expect that as I am used to 5,000gns pinhooks in Book 3, not Sea The Stars fillies in Book 2! Oh yeah, this is my biggest result by a country mile!"

Jason Kelly said: "She goes to Ireland and to trainer Paddy Twomey, she is for an existing client of his. She is a beautiful filly, bred by the Turnbull family, who I have had a history with. They are fantastic breeders and I am delighted they have got a good price.

"I am delighted to have got her, she is a stunning filly with a lot of class. Sea The Stars speaks for himself, I know the broodmare – she was a tough racemare. He is a great broodmare sire so, for a filly, he makes a lot of sense. With the strong market we knew we would have to push."

The filly is a first foal out of the mare, who was homebred by the late Geoff Turnbull.

Amo Racing/Al Shaqab

The day's other 600,000gns joint top lot was a Too Darn Hot filly out of Lola Paige which sold for 600,000gns to Al Shaqab / Amo Racing. The transaction reduced Robert "Chocolate" Thornton, stud manager at Paul Dunkley's Appletree Stud, to tears. It is the highest price achieved to date by the farm.

"Paul puts so much into the stud," said Thornton. "She is a queen, I thought she'd get 200,000gns or so, and then thought maybe 400,000gns, but to do that... She has been a star all the way through, and of course we were tempted to keep her, but the boss has put a lot of money in he deserves to get some back.

"We have been with Too Darn Hot from the word go, and we have already produced a filly by him with another Galileo mare*, she is training with Roger [Varian] and has not run yet, but she is gorgeous. We sold a foal by him very well and the sire has done us well."

*That foal by Too Darn Hot and sold by the farm was out of Astonishing, bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 270,000gns at the December Foal Sale in 2021.

Asked to expand a little further as to why this filly is so special, he added: "This filly always moved well and looked the part, she has taken everything so well. It is brilliant. The mare had another filly by the sire this year, and she is arguably stronger at the same stage, she will be one we keep!"

Buyer Alex Elliott said: "She has been split between Al Shaqab and Amo, a trainer yet to be decided, but we have a team of trainers who we are very happy with and she will go to one of those.

"Both sides gave her top marks, she is by Too Darn Hot, who is a global stallion now, and she is out of a Galileo mare. She was always going to cost a lot of money."

A Camelot for Coolmore

Also on Tuesday, Coolmore Stud's M.V. Magnier gave 500,000gns for a Camelot filly from Ballylinch Stud. She is out of the multiple listed winner Fort Del Oro (by Lope De Vega), already the dam of Fast Attack, who was Group 3-placed.

"Camelot has had a exceptional year, the lads liked the filly a lot and, in fairness to Ballylinch, the farm is a very good breeder," Magnier explained. "They sent a good mare to Camelot and were rewarded with a nice filly and we are happy to have bought her.

John O'Connor of Ballylinch Stud added: "We are very happy with that price, we were pretty confident she would sell well. She is a beautiful filly with the best combination of Camelot and Lope De Vega. The mare was very quick, she has already bred a good one, so the pedigree is stacking up for everyone. Then her physical, her temperament and her ability to show is just exceptional. Pretty well most of the big operations were interested."

Of the decision to use Camelot on Fort Del Oro, he outlined: "It is interesting, we have done some statistics that indicates that Camelot does well with fast mares, which was not something I expected. Camelot is a very solid sire, I like him, he brings a lot of quality and class and then if you get the right individual you can be in business. I liked her a lot – we were tempted to keep her, I would have quite liked her to walk around the paddocks at home!"

Rathbarry Stud also landed quite a touch on Tuesday when selling an Acclamation colt for 500,000gns to trainer George Scott.

The colt is out of an unraced Sea The Stars mare and she has had one runner to-date, the Paddy Twomey-trained Currawood, a full-brother to this yearling, and he has shown great promise in all three of his starts this season, without winning.

Tuesday's session saw turnover of 24.6 million guineas, a record for a Book 2 session. It ended with an average price of 115,136gns (over 10% ahead of Monday) and the median was 75,000gns (about 15% better than Monday). The clearance rate for the first two days has been a very high 91%.

The Book 2 sale concludes on Wednesday.

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