Gordon Elliott spent €265,000 to secure the most expensive purchase at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale on Thursday.
Lot 397, a gelding by the late Kayf Tara and offered just 17 lots from the end of the sale, fetched a sale-topping amount.
The February-born gelding out of the Kapgarde mare Miss Bailly is the highest-priced National Hunt store horse sold this year and a full-brother to Romeo Coolio, who was sold for £420,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale in March, also to Elliott.
