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Boltaway tops Wednesday’s session selling for 400,000 guineas.

The Juddmonte draft is a customary highlight of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale and it provided the top lot on the third day of this year's renewal when Boltaway (Dubawi) was knocked down to Najd Stud and Peter & Ross Doyle for 400,000 guineas. 

The three-year-old colt, who was one of ten lots to sell for 200,000 guineas or more on Wednesday, is out of the four-time Grade One winning mare Proviso (Dansili) and has shown smart form himself with four wins from six starts for Roger Charlton this season, earning a 'Timeform' rating of 100. 

Najd Stud representative Saad bin Mishraf commented:

"We tried to buy this horse privately but that wasn't possible and so we waited for this sale. It's proved to be one of the toughest markets I have ever seen for horses in training. He's by Dubawi, whose offspring have succeeded in Saudi Arabia and out of a Dansili mare, and Dansilis have done very well in Saudi Arabia so he had the right pedigree. He also had size and good feet for racing on dirt.

"He has not been over-raced and he vetted 100 percent, which was one of the main reasons for trying to buy him. All the races in Saudi Arabia are on the up, with better prize money sometimes increased by four or five times. There are races for locally-bred horses and imported horses, and while we don't have many imported horses the ones we have are very good." 

The third session of the sale on Wednesday saw turnover break the 10 million guineas barrier, breaking the record aggregate for the sale.