Toby Jones and Alex Elliott sign for six-figure lots at Maisons-Laffitte

Bloodstock agents Toby Jones and Alex Elliott fought it out for the top two lots during a buoyant renewal of the Osarus National Hunt Sale at Maisons-Laffitte on Thursday.

Jones emerged on top for the €300,000 sale-topper Ganzo D'Airy, a three-year-old son of Legolas who was second in an AQPS maiden at Nancy on his debut.

"He's a very correct, go

Stephane Pasquier debriefs Niarchos racing manager Alan Cooper following Study Of Man's fine second in the Prix d'IspahanCredit: Racing Post / Scott Burton

od-moving horse," said Jones.

"He's a real easy, laid-back, relaxed horse and lovely to see. He'll be going to Ireland. He's got all the options. He could stick to bumpers or go straight over hurdles. He's already been schooled and goes very well over obstacles. He's a horse with a lot of speed and I think he wouldn't be too bad in juvenile hurdles."

Jones sourced Anibale Fly for €16,000 at the 2013 Arqana Summer Sale and the son of Assessor subsequently placed twice in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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Elliott was not to be outgunned on the next most expensive lot, the €280,000 Blue Bresil gelding Indiana Jones, who he signed for together with former French trainer-turned-bloodstock agent Nicolas Bertran de Balanda.

The three-year-old gelding entered plenty of notebooks with an eyecatching performance when second to the promising Onestepforward in an Auteuil hurdle over two miles two furlongs in late September.

"I work quite closely with Nicolas in France and he mentioned the horse to me a few weeks ago," said Elliott.

"When I saw him today, he was about 17 hands high and had absolutely no right to do what he did in an Auteuil juvenile hurdle - there would be no way he would run in a juvenile hurdle in Britain or Ireland, he's like a three-mile chaser.

"He's a colossal horse, by the right stallion and showed a huge engine on his only start. He probably won't run again this season as he's not a juvenile, and I imagine he'll come back as a four-year-old novice hurdler next year. He'll be trained in Ireland and you'd see him as a potential three-mile chaser."

Of 138 lots offered at the Osarus National Hunt Sale, 82 sold for total receipts of €2,182,000, at an average spend of €26,600 and median price of €16,000.

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