A lightly raced three-year-old maiden with form in Ireland will join the Chris Waller stable later this year.
The premier Sydney trainer and his long-time agent Guy Mulcaster, a regular at horses in training sales in Europe, bought Invincible Spirit gelding Standard Deviation for 90,000 guineas (A$196,191) on day two of the Tattersalls July Sale in the UK.
Standard Deviation, who was trained by Paddy Twomey, finished a last-start second at Naas on June 25 over a mile.
The top-priced lot on day two was Kingman filly Orchid Bouquet, a 550,000 sister to the late Group 2-winning Coolmore sire Calyx and the Listed winner Coppice.
She was bought by Badgers Bloodstock’s Grant Pritchard-Gordon from the Juddmonte draft. Pritchard-Gordon suggested the filly, who has battled shin soreness, may be sent back into training but the intention is to breed with her.
