The Tattersalls December foal sale continued Thursday in Newmarket, England, with mixed results at its second of four sessions.Thursday’s session sold 207 foals sold for $9,253,440; compared year-to-year in Tattersalls’ auction currency, guineas, the total was up 2 percent from last year’s figures for 191 foals sold. Average price, however, fell 5 percent to the equivalent of $44,703. The median price, $33,600, was unchanged.The buyback rate improved significantly from last year, dropping from 20 percent to 13 percent.Tim Hyde went to the session-topping – and sale-leading – price of 120,000 guineas, or about $201,600, for a Feb. 14 colt by 2007 French Derby winner Lawman. The bay colt is a half-brother to winner Louis the Pious. He is out of the Polish Precedent mare Whole Grain, a full sister to Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks winner Pure Grain, who is also the dam of Group 3 winner Goncharova. Lawman, whose runners this year have included Group 1 winners Most Improved and Law Enforcement, had two of the session’s four highest-priced foals Thursday.Ashbrittle Stud consigned the Lawman weanling, one of five to bring six figures at Thursday’s session.The December foal sale continues through Dec. 1. Sessions stream live at www.tattersalls.com.