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Bought for one million pounds at the Goffs Qipco British Champions Day Sale, Rogue Lightning will return next season for new owners Wathnan Racing.

The colt was the highlight of the pre-racing Goffs Qipco British Champions Day Sale, where the bidding was fast and furious for the son of Kodiac. Sold by syndicate The Rogues Gallery, who have enjoyed a tremendous season with the colt and Group 2 winner Rogue Millennium, Rogue Lightning was knocked down to Richard Brown on behalf of Wathnan Racing.

He will remain in training with Tom Clover, who has trained the three-year-old throughout his career and enjoyed Listed success in the Scarborough Stakes at Doncaster before a good fifth in the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye.

"It's absolutely fantastic news, it's terrific to have a horse like him in the yard," Clover said.

"He's been a great horse for the Rogues and for us, as an ambitious yard, to keep him for some fantastic new owners in the yard is very exciting.

"We'll have to speak to Richard Brown but the plan for now is that we'll give him a break and bring him back fresh in the spring.

"He's the type of horse where you'd hope that the programme would work itself out, all the obvious races – King's Stands, Nunthorpes, who knows?

"He should winter very well, I hope, and should shape into a top-class sprinter."