There were gains across the board Tuesday at the Tattersalls December mare sale in Newmarket, England, where Diary, dam of European champion sprinter Total Gallery and carrying a Galileo foal, brought more than $2 million. A buoyant second session lifted the sale to an improved performance over last year's equivalent day. Tuesday's session sold 163 horses for about $31,755,880, an average of about $194,821, and an $84,425 median. Compared year-to-year in the auction currency of guineas, those figures were up 26 percent in gross, 23 percent in average, and 59 percent in median. The session-topping (and sale-leading) price in the local auction currency was 1.3 million guineas, or about $2,143,050. Pearl Bloodstock, a Qatari group led by Sheikh Fahad al-Thani, bought Diary, by Green Desert, in its latest purchase to generate headlines this year. The same syndicate privately purchased Total Gallery in October and also stands Group 1 winner Makfi, another private purchase this year, at Tweenhills Stud. The Castlebridge Consignment sold Diary, who also is the dam of Group 1-placed Lady Darshaan. Lady Darshaan, a 3-year-old by High Chaparral, also sold Tuesday to Newsells Stud and John Warren Bloodstock for 600,000 guineas, about $989,100. Diary's 2010 colt by Tamayuz topped the final day of the Tattersalls December sale on November 27 when Blandford Bloodstock paid Coleman Stud 200,000 guineas, about $329,700, for him. One other mare brought seven figures. That was First, whose 1.1 million-guinea price was equivalent to $1,823,350. Agent Charlie Gordon-Watson bought her from the Bloomsbury Stud dispersal. The 12-year-old Highest Honor mare is dam of Law Lord and Perfect Stride. Her 2010 Singspiel colt topped the December foal sale at $527,520 from buyer Coolmore. American celebrity chef Bobby Flay went to 700,000 guineas, about $1,153,950, for the 3-year-old Storm Cat filly Countess Lemonade. Stakes-placed in France, she will now run in the United States, said Flay's agent, James Delahooke. The December mare sale was to continue in Newmarket through Dec. 2.