Too Darn Hot it was indeed at Tattersalls as the July Sale got underway amid a continuing heatwave in Newmarket, and it was thus appropriate that the Darley stallion was responsible for one of the day's top lots when his daughter Wild Angel (lot 198) brought the hammer down at 400,000gns. It wasn't long however before her price was usurped by the filly widely billed before the sale to be the star of the show, and Renaissance Lady (Pinatubo), a daughter of the late Sheikh Mohammed Obaid's great matriarch Reem Three (Mark Of Esteem), duly topped the opening session at 500,000gns.The winning bids for both mares sold from the Godolphin draft had been placed online and it quickly transpired that Paul Curran was responsible for the outlay which equated to £945,000 for the pair on behalf of Ace Stud.Either mare would be a shining addition to any broodmare band, but the unraced three-year-old Renaissance Lady, whose catalogue page barely had room for the inclusion of anything beyond the descendants of her illustrious mother, is a particularly glittering jewel. A half-sister to the Group 1 winners Triple Time (Frankel) and Ajman Princess (Teofilo), she has much to recommend her, including the fact that another unraced half-sister, Rosaline (New Approach), is the dam of Classic winner and champion three-year-old miler Rosallion (Blue Point). Completing the trio of young Darley stallions on the page is G1 Commonwealth Cup winner Inisherin (Shamardal), a son of the aforementioned Ajman Princess, who is also responsible for the G3 Strensall Stakes winner King Of Cities (Dubawi).Reem Three's black-type rosettes don't end there either, as among her eight offspring to have earned some bold print on the page are Group 2 winner Ostilio (New Approach) and Group 3 winner Cape Byron (Shamardal). The offering of some of the stock of hugely successful owner-breeder Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, who died in December, will perhaps become a more regular occurrence as time wears on. The public sale of a daughter of Reem Three was always going to entice fellow breeders, particularly from an operation such as Harrison Li's Ace Stud, which has made significant investment in racing and breeding stock in this region over recent seasons. “From our point of view, she and Wild Angel are the best to mares in the sale, and she is exactly what we're looking for,” said Curran. “Renaissance Lady really is something of a collector's item as a sister to a stallion, and closely related to Rosallion and Inisherin, too.“Pedigrees like this are just so hard to buy and they don't come onto the market very often. Physically she is a good stamp of a mare, too. She's obviously out of training and so we'll bring her back to the farm, let her down, give her some grass time and will make a decision for next year.“She probably would suit a Godolphin stallion again, but there are no plans as yet – we wanted to get our hands on her first, and we'll talk later. She is open to many options and looking through the pedigree you could go back to Frankel obviously, or stay and go closer into the Shamardal line with a stallion such as Blue Point. We can go any which way, she is a good one.”Having done his bidding from afar, he added, “We viewed them yesterday, Marie [Sullivan] and her team with the draft were very helpful as always and we were well looked after.”The afternoon's spending spree had begun with Wild Angel, who is also well-credentialed as a winning three-part-sister to another Darley stallion in the multiple Group 1 winner Space Blues (Dubawi) as well as the G2 Al Maktoum Challenge winner Shuruq (Elusive Quality). The four-year-old mare was sold carrying her first foal by Pinatubo, with Tom Goff offering some opposition to Curran from within the sweltering sale ring. Curran continued, “A pedigree like this is hard to get into as a three-part-sister to Space Blues and a half to Shuruq, and it is a very good family outside of that.“Too Darn Hot is looking as though he could shape up as a nice broodmare sire. Physically, she's a lovely mare and she just suits exactly what we're looking for.”The 28-strong Tuesday offering from Godolphin dominated the day's trade and accounted for six of the top ten lots, including the day's four most expensive breeding prospects. Also among that quartet was Enchanted Queen, an 80-rated daughter of Ghaiyyath out of the G2 Prix Corrida winner Morgan Le Faye (Shamardal) who was signed for by Eugene Daly at 180,000gns. The three-year-old filly (lot 222), who is a grand-daughter of the G1 Prix du Cadran winner Molly Malone (Lomitas) and from the further family of Monsun, was bought in the name of Clacton Thoroughbreds, and as anyone keeping an eye on the news beyond the sales bubble might have spotted, this came just hours after the MP for Clacton, Reform party leader Nigel Farage, announced his resignation from parliament amid a growing row surrounding undeclared benefits.American owner-breeder Mike Repole was another to sign for a filly from Godolphin, going to 130,000gns for lot 226, Morning Rose (Dubawi). A winner last year at two, the filly is out of the G3-placed Dawn Delivers (Dawn Approach), herself a daughter of Siyasa (Rahy), a full-sister to Fantastic Light.Unsurprisingly, Godolphin topped the consignors' table, with all 28 horses sold for a total of 2,254,500gns, pushing an improved aggregate for the day to 4,956,000gns (+12%), sold at an average of 30,783gns (+34%). A healthy first-day clearance rate stood at 86%.Miss Finland joins Dash Grange broodmare bandJayne McGivern is an owner-breeder for all seasons and, in Golden Horn, she owns the perfect stallion for pursuing both codes with graduates of her Dash Grange Stud. Acting through agent Jerry McGrath, McGivern went to 120,000gns to buy lot 95, the eight-year-old mare Miss Finland (Invincible Spirit), who was offered by New England Stud in foal to Chaldean. Not to be confused with the Australian superstar of the same name, Miss Finland was nonetheless a winner at two for her owner-breeder Alan O'Flynn when trained by John and Thady Gosden and she possesses a decent pedigree. A daughter of the Group 3-winning Elusive City mare Marvada, she is a half-sister to G2 Dahlia Stakes winner Terebellum (Sea The Stars) and has already produced a filly from the first crop of 2,000 Guineas winner Chaldean who fetched €82,000 at last year's Goffs November Foal Sale. Miss Finland's first foal, a three-year-old gelding by Starspangledbanner, is in training in Hong Kong, while the second, a Night Of Thunder colt, died earlier this year. The mare will continue to board at New England Stud.“It's actually worked out well,” McGrath said. “Jayne has a few mares with Peter [Stanley] and Miss Finland came recommended from the vendor. When I spoke to Jayne this morning, she was very keen to get a few more commercial mares.”David Redvers and Matt Houldsworth teamed up for the purchase of lot 87, the No Nay Never mare Never Fear, who had the added bonus of being sold in foal to the popular Havana Grey. The winner of three races for Charlie Johnston, the sister to the Group 3-placed Rudi's Apple is now five and will head to Tweenhills. Her two-year-old full-brother Amir Lehbab has also been placed on his sole start to date for Andrew Balding. “We've gone halves,” Redvers said. “She is a nice young mare with plenty of upsides, her full-brother with Andrew is highly regarded, he has got to do it, but he looks like he is very capable of doing it. She has a nice Havana Grey cover, and I am very happy to have her coming home to the Tweenhills paddocks.“I have done a lot of work with Matt in the past, he is a great man to deal with and, hopefully, this will be another success story.”Among the horses in training, which will become more plentiful during the next two days of the July Sale, wild card lot 229B, the young buck Duidin (Cotai Glory), was sold by Johnny Butler's Charnwood Stable to American-based DJ Stables for 140,000gns. The two-year-old colt has won his last two starts for Butler, most recently striking at odds of 1/4 at Kempton on June 29 to push his official rating to 87.The first lot will be in the ring at 10am on Wednesday for the second day of the July Sale. The post Ace Stud Snares Reem Three’s Daughter Renaissance Lady at 500,000gns appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.