Amo's European record-priced 4,300,000gns colt among the regal newcomers on Friday

Our resident bloodstock experts profile the well-bred eyecatchers and expensive purchases set to grace the track.

Poker

Castle Green Homes EBF Novice Stakes (4.00 Haydock, Friday)

Institute /Together Now

Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies' Maiden (5.45 Dundalk, Friday)

What's the story?

A triple-whammy of regal juveniles to enliven a late September Friday afternoon on both sides of the Irish Sea.

How are they bred?

First to take to the track is the Karl Burke-trained Poker, who has the distinction of being the most expensive yearling colt ever sold at public auction in Europe. The son of the recently deceased Wootton Bassett ignited a bidding battle at Tattersalls Book 1 last October between legacy superpower Coolmore Stud and the emerging force that is Kia Joorabchian's Amo Racing.

Joorabchian defeated MV Magnier to land the colt for 4,300,000gns, an eye-watering sum that isn't even the highest price fetched by a member of his family which has been nurtured by Paddy Burns and family of Lodge Park Stud over three decades.

That honour goes to Al Naamah, a Galileo full-sister to this colt's dam, who retains the title of Europe's most expensive yearling. She earned that at Book 1 in 2013 when Al Shaqab Racing went to 5,000,000gns to buy the full-sister to Oaks heroine Was from Lodge Park's draft.

Al Namaah and Park Bloom are full-sisters of the Group winners of Douglas Macarthur and Amhran Na Bhfiann, who was third in the Derby.

Kia Joorabchian: owner's big money buy makes his debutCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Their dam, Alluring Park, is a Group-placed Green Desert half-sister to the champion, Classic winner and talented sire New Approach, also a son of Galileo.

Alex Elliott, bloodstock agent and a member of Joorabchian's advisory team remarked at the time of Poker's purchase: "If you were going to paint a racehorse, that’s as close to perfection as you can get.

“From the top to the bottom, from the farm he came from, the amount of time and money and love that the Burns family have put into that page, it’s just phenomenal. To get a physical like that is a lifetime achievement for anybody.

“When I first showed Kia the horse, there was myself, Ben McElroy and Robson Aguiar, it doesn’t take a genius to find that horse, but we all said you can’t get better than that. I said to Kia, ‘You’ve been second in two Derbys, that is a horse that can take you one place better.’”

City Of Troy: champion's half-sister makes her debut at Dundalk on FridayCredit: Coolmore

Elliott added: “If he can run to how he looks, he’s going to have a spot in a stallion shed one day."

Poker looks to have been found a fine opportunity to get up and running at Haydock, for all that several of his rivals have shown glimpses of promise.

If it is a launchpad for earning that berth in a stallion shed, then Poker may get the opportunity to cover either of the Coolmore newcomers in the fillies' maiden at Dundalk that goes to post a little over an hour later, if inbreeding to Galileo proves the route to Classic glory.

Institute is a daughter of Frankel and the Queen Mary winner and Nunthorpe runner-up Acapulco, by Scat Daddy, and will have Wayne Lordan in the saddle while Together Now will be ridden by Jack Cleary, who claims 5lb.

The Dubawi filly is a half-sister to last year's Derby winner and horse of the year City Of Troy and the Justify colt is one of five black-type performers from six runners out of Fillies' Mile winner Together Forever.

She is a Galileo full-sister to Oaks heroine Forever Together and a half-sister to Lord Shanakill, victorious in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat.

Connections have Group 1 aspirations for all three with Poker holding an entry in Doncaster's Futurity Trophy while both of the Ballydoyle fillies are entered in the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket next month.

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