Red Duster sold for $61,284 (225,000 dirhams) to top the second and final day of the revamped Emirates Racing Authority horses in training sale on Wednesday night in Dubai.

Emirates Racing Authority reported 55 horses as sold for $553,189, an average price of $10,057.

The sale attracted purchasers from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Red Duster, who was bought by Suliman Bhana, has won three of 11 starts and earned $45,244.

The five-year-old Red Ransom gelding is out of the stakes-placed winning Known Fact mare Logiciel (GB) and is a half brother to Grade 2 winner Talloires. Each of Red Duster’s three wins came in the United Arab Emirates.

The Dubai Racing Club’s Martin Talty was happy with how the two-day sale went.

“The idea of moving the sale to the week of the Super Thursday meeting certainly worked, and this sale is certainly something we can build on for future years,” Talty said. “I think next year, the Dubai International Racing Carnival sale in particular will be pretty strong and we could have around 70 horses go under the hammer.”

The sale was run by the Emirates Racing Authority and European auction house Tattersalls. It began Tuesday with the inaugural Dubai International Racing Carnival sale, which was headlined by the purchase of New Freedom for $626,457.