After a white-hot Tuesday session that was topped by the 2,200,000gns Waldlied, prices cooled a little during day three of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Wednesday, although a clearance rate of 87 per cent spoke of the ongoing strength of trade.

The market was headed by the unraced Bespangled, an unraced daughter of Dubawi offered by Godolphin who fetched 330,000gns from Billy Jackson-Stops. The Newmarket-based agent signed alongside the Turnbull family's Elwick Stud.

"The team at Elwick Stud were very keen on her and she was an obvious standout in this session," said Jackson-Stops. "They've had a lot of good horses along the way and they're revamping their stock. She's a very good individual, is by Dubawi and there are some nice horses coming along behind her. The pedigree really stands out and she will go to the straight to the breeding shed."

The three-year-old is a second-generation Godolphin homebred as she is out of Pure Diamond, a Listed-winning daughter of Street Cry and the German champion two-year-old White Rose, who joined the Darley fold through Blandford Bloodstock at 620,000gns in 2007.

Pure Diamond has bred one winner from as many runners, namely Charlie Appleby's Symbol Of Light, who looked a smart prospect with two bloodless victories on the all-weather this autumn. The mare also has a yearling filly by Frankel and a Kingman colt foal in the pipeline.

Elwick Stud, whose founder Geoff Turnbull passed away aged 74 in July last year, saw their flag bearer Lord Glitters gain a lucrative and much-deserved success in the Group 3 Bahrain International Trophy earlier in the month. The Turnbull colours were also carried to success by the Julie Camacho-trained Burning Emotion, a daughter of the owner's Miondialiste, at Kempton yesterday.



Godolphin sold 84 lots across the first three sessions of the December Mares Sale, which in turn generated receipts totalling 4,629,500gns and an average price of 55,113gns.