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The first European-bred yearling by champion Australian sire Redoute's Choice to be offered at the Tattersalls October Sale in the UK has sold for 725,000 guineas.

The filly from Yummy Mummy is a three-quarter sister to this year's outstanding 3YO filly Legatissimo (by Danehill Dancer), winner of The One Thousand Guineas G1 and two other Group 1 races, and runner-up in The Oaks G1.

Yummy Mummy (Montjeu) is a winning sister to champion European stayer Fame And Glory, from the family of dual Group 1 winner Farhh.

The attractive, loose-walking bay filly was consigned by her breeder Newsells Park Stud and purchased by Coolmore's M.V. Magnier, son of John and Susan who race Legatissimo with Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith. The underbidder was the China Horse Club.

M.V. Magnier said, "We were lucky enough to buy Legatissimo at this sale two years ago and if this filly is half as good as her, we'll be happy. This family has been very lucky for us - you have Fame And Glory under the second dam - and this is a lovely filly."

Julian Dollar, General Manager of Newsells Park Stud, said, "You've got to be happy with that. She made her value.

“She's going to a great home - they know how to train daughters out of that mare.

“It's bittersweet as we'd have loved to have kept her but selling is our modus operandi and everyone knows that."

The filly is the 67th Redoute's Choice yearling to sell for seven figures ($A1.6 million) or the equivalent in Australian dollars.

She is also his top-priced yearling worldwide in 2015, heading off the €950,000 ($A1.4 million) Vadawina colt sold by Haras d'Etreham to John Ferguson at the Arqana August Sale, and Arrowfield's $1.1 million Weekend Beauty filly bought by Takaya Shimakawa at the Sydney Easter sale.

Another two fillies and three colts by Redoute’s Choiuce, Australia's three-time champion sire, will be offered from Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale over the next two days, with the filly from Arabescatta catalogued in Book 2.

Redoute's Choice shuttled to HH The Aga Khan's Haras de Bonneval in France for the 2013 and 2014 northern hemisphere seasons.

He is second on the current season Australian General Sires' table with $1.8 million prizemoney and four stakeswinners (Royal Descent, Peeping, She's Clean, Counterattack) and posted his 125th lifetime stakeswinner in Japan last weekend.

• A colt and a filly by Galileo topped the opening day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, both breaking the seven figure mark as 123 lots sold for 29,679,000 guineas at an average of 241,293 guineas and a median of 160,000 guineas.

All key indicators posted significant rises on last year with a total of 15 lots selling for 500,000 guineas or more.

The top lot for the day was New England Stud’s Galileo filly knocked down to John Magnier for 1.3 million guineas.

The filly is out of the Bernardini mare A Z Warrior, a G1 winner in the US.

Magnier also went to 1.25 million guineas to secure the Galileo son of Alluring Park. The well-related colt hails from a classic family and is a full brother to Oaks winner Was as well as the European record breaking yearling Al Naamah and is also from the family of New Approach.

The third highest lot sold on Day 1 was a Dubawi filly consigned by Corduff Stud out of the Marju mare Badee knocked down to the China Horse Club for 900,000 guineas.