Matt Coleman and Clive Boultbee-Brooks swoop for Sea The Moon yearling

Matt Coleman was conducting business across Europe on Friday as he managed to secure one of the main prizes on offer at the BBAG Sales & Racing Festival.

While the agent was in Newmarket, he had assistance in Germany in purchasing a yearling Sea The Moon colt consigned by Gestut Gorlsdorf (lot 186) for €43,000 - the session-topper for much of the day.

"Claire Bonner, who does lot of breaking in for me, was buying a few store-type horses, so I said to her if she saw a really nice horse to give me a call," Coleman explained.

"She called me about a Sea The Moon and said he looked a really nice dual-purpose yearling.

"Sea The Moon has done well on the Flat and there was a lot of French and German jump form under his second dam.

"He has been bought for Clive Boultbee-Brooks, who owns Sebastopol with Tom Lacey, I suspect as a National Hunt horse. We'll get him home and see how he is, he might run on the Flat first."

View BBAG Sales & Racing Festival sale results here

The first significantly-priced transfer was a colt by Gestut Etzean’s rising star Amaron. Lars-Wilhelm Baumgarten and Sebastian Weiss struck with a bid of €36,000 for the Gestut Park Wiedingen-offered yearling (lot 85), whose half-sister Queen Josephine has run respectably in Group company.

Amaron has sired six winners around Europe from a reported first crop of 44 with one, Run Wild, scoring in Britain and finishing fourth in the Group 2 May Hill at Doncaster.

Friday’s session stretched from the morning with 330 lots catalogued to go under the hammer, with a mixed bag of mares in foal, horses in training and yearlings included.

Last year’s top price had been the Mastercraftsman colt Emerald Master, a Group 3-placed individual who had run in the German Derby. He was sold for €110,000 but was pulled up in a Listed race at Chantilly a few weeks later.

The sale continues after Baden-Baden’s race meeting on Saturday, with another 102 to be offered from 5pm local time.

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