Autumn Yearling Sale

A bumper consignment from Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud, offered as part of Jim Bolger's consolidation of his breeding interests, features among the highlights of the catalogue for the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale, which is scheduled to take place from Monday, November 3 to Wednesday, November 5. The 43-strong draft from Boherguy Stud includes lot 312, a Dawn Approach half-sister to the G1 Dewhurst Stakes runner-up Leitir Mor (Holy Roman Emperor), and lot 278, also by Dawn Approach and a half-brother to the G2 May Hill Stakes winner and G1 Prix...

Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud supplied the Day 1 session-topper of the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale on Wednesday in the shape of a Dawn Approach (Ire) colt who was knocked down to Alex Elliott for €80,000. Lot 458 is a brother to the Group 3-placed Strapped (Ire) and was not the only big result Manning enjoyed on the day. Another son of the 2000 Guineas winner, lot 441, made €50,000 to BBA Ireland while Boherguy Stud would have collected a clean sweep had the Castlebridge Consignment not sold its Sea The...

One of the main attractions of the Goffs Autumn Horses In Training Sale on Tuesday is Gustavus Weston (Ire) (Equiano {Fr}), the four-time winner whose career highlight came when he landed the G2 Greenlands S. at the Curragh last year.  On that occasion, Joe Murphy's charge was chased home by Make A Challenge (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a 10-time winner for Denis Hogan, who is also in the sale.  Hogan said of his eight-strong draft, "We've a nice draft of horses going to Goffs. We'll be sorry to see some...