UPDATED 6:06PM, APR 7 2021 Around 12 months ago the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic had thrown the breeze-up season into a state of unprecedented disarray. Sales dates and locations moved to and fro as auction houses did their utmost to host the key dates in as efficient a format as possible. The Tattersalls Craven Sale eventually brought the curtain up on a heavily disrupted season two months later than scheduled, while the Goffs UK auction was pushed back a similar amount of time and staged alongside Arqana's sale, which transferred from Deauville to Doncaster. Despite all the challenges, trade, for the most part, proved far more satisfactory than many would have dared imagine when the disruption began, while a stream of stakes-winning graduates - horses such as Bahrain Pride, Steel Bull and Umm Kulthum - duly emerged from the salvaged sales.