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The third day of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale saw the highest priced filly foal in the world this year, nine lots selling for 500,000 guineas or more and a record-breaking turnover for a session at this fixture.

A total of 172 lots sold for 21,136,500 guineas at an average of 122,887 guineas and a median of 70,000 guineas. Turnover was up 24% on last year’s corresponding session whilst the average and median rose 22% and 8% respectively.

The headline lot was the regally-bred Galileo filly out of Pearling who was knocked down to Tony Nerses of Blue Diamond Stud for 1.7 million guineas, becoming the highest priced filly foal to be sold at auction this year.

Consigned by New England Stud, she is a full sister to three-time G1 winner Decorated Knight is from the wonderful family of champion sire Giant’s Causeway and dual Guineas winner Gleneagles.

Nerses said she was bought Imad Al Sagar, who bred the filly in partnership with Saleh Al Homaizi.

The pair having owned Blue Diamond Stud and Derby winner Authorized but Saleh Al Homaizi has elected to move away from his involvement. The sales-topping foal's dam Pearling is be offered at next week's Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

Nerses also secured a Sea The Stars filly out of G3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner Princess Noor for the same owner at 600,000 guineas.

A Dubawi half sister to Melbourne spring carnival G1 winner Best Of Days out of the Listed winning High Chaparral mare Baisse was secured by Anthony Stroud for 725,000 guineas. Fittocks Stud consigned the filly on behalf of German breeder Gerhard Schoeningh, the owner and manager of Hoppegarten racecourse.

Best Of Days won the G1 Kennedy Mile at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup carnival, having won the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes as a two-year-old.

Matt Coleman of Stroud Coleman Bloodstock went to 700,000 guineas to buy the Dubawi colt out of the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime.

The Castlebridge Consignment offered the brother to G1 winner Zhukova and dual G3 winner Ghaiyyath on behalf of Springbank Way Stud.

Two Frankel fillies also made 700,000 guineas apiece.

The first was the daughter of the G3 winner Middle Club (Fantastic Light) knocked down to Hugo Lascelles is a half-sister to this year’s G3 winer Anna Nerium while another sibling Coplow is the dam of the 1000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook.

The second of Frankel’s daughters to realise 700,000 guineas was the filly out of the G3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Divine knocked down to Juddmonte Farms stud director Simon Mockridge.

Divine, by Dark Angel, is also catalogued at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale next week.

The Tattersalls December Foal Sale concludes on December 1.