Stonewall Stallions’ Medaglia d’Oro enjoyed another session topper at public auction – this time in Europe. Selling as lot 85, a 2-year-old colt by the leading second-crop sire sold for 260,000gns ($409,434) during the opening session of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale in Newmarket.

O'Gorman, who frequently buys for Sheikh Mohammed, saw off agent Oliver St Lawrence and French trainer Richard Gibson to buy the colt, a $125,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Gay O’Callaghan’s Yeomanstown Stud, which consigned the colt out of Grade 2 winner C'Est L'Amour (Thunder Gulch) at Tattersalls.

“He’s been bought for an undisclosed client,” said O'Gorman. “He moved very well in his breeze and, although he has an American pedigree, I think he'll be staying in training (in Europe). He seemed to handle the grass well enough in his breeze.”