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Breeding rights and shares in up-and-coming stallions dominated the first Tattersalls Online Sale of 2023, with a share in Zarak topping the bill at 350,000gns.

His early success has made the Aga Khan's homebred sire one of the most sought-after in Europe and the share, for 1/50th of the Group 1 winner, was purchased by Blandford Bloodstock on behalf of Andrew Black's Chasemore Farm.

The ten-year-old's fee was more than doubled to €60,000 for this season following the success of his first two crops, which include five individual Group winners headed by the Group 2 winner and Group 1 third Purplepay and the Classic-placed fillies Times Square and La Parisienne.

Chasemore Farm enjoyed Group 1 success on the track last year as the breeders of Cheveley Park Stakes winner Lezoo, from the first northern hemisphere crop of Zoustar.

Blandford's Tom Goff was tasked with buying the share for Chasemore and the agent said: "Andrew and Jane Black have a number of mares they would like to send to France to be covered by Zarak over the next few seasons so, after some discussion, the decision was to give it a go."

Goff was quick to praise Georges Rimaud and the team at the Aga Khan Studs for their management of stallion syndications.

“The fact he is managed by Georges Rimaud at Haras de Bonneval is another massive plus for me personally," he said. "We have first-hand experience of their stallion syndicates - they are absolutely blue chip and are exceptionally well managed.”