The 4-year-old filly Poetisa topped the first day of the Goffs Spring HIT/PTP Sale at Doncaster when selling to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins for £300,000. She was one of seven lots to break the six-figure mark.
Sold as lot 308, the daughter of Poet's Word and the Old Vic mare Chars was consigned by Toby Bulgin. She is a half-sister to Flemensfirth's G2 Abram Mares' Novices' Hurdle heroine Queenofhearts. Under the second dam is Grade 1-winning hurdler Macs Joy (Religiously). Purchased for £42,000 by Bulgin out of the Goffs Doncaster Spring Store Sale in 2024, the filly won a Cheltenham bumper last month.
“Toby saw her here last year and liked her and bought her,” said the Lambourn-based Nicola Bulgin, whose silks were carried by Poetisa for her win. “She did everything right and had a great temperament, she was lovely to do at home. It was always the plan to race her in a bumper and then hopefully resell her. We were happy to wait with her, as she was a bit of a baby and took a while to come to hand, and it looked like she wanted better ground, so the timing of the race at Cheltenham worked in her favour.”
Nicky Henderson was the underbidder on the top lot, alongside Jerry McGrath.
Of the 188 horses offered on day one, 156 (83%) sold for a gross of £5,308,500 (-22%). The average was up 11% to £34,029 and the median rose 30% to £26,000.
The sale continues tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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