Dai Walters

The dual G1 Champion Stakes winner and young stallion Cracksman is on the move to Yorton Stud for the 2026 breeding season, having been purchased in a partnership with owner Dai Walters. The son of Frankel has been based at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud since 2019 and is perhaps best known in his second career as the sire of the unbeaten G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Ace Impact. In total, he is the sire of 11 individual black-type winners, with the others...

Following a one-year break, the Goffs Yorton Sale returned on Thursday with a 100 per cent clearance rate, with a gelding by Doctor Dino fetching £105,000 from Paul Cowley's Vanquish Bloodstock to headline the sale of 33 National Hunt-bred two-year-olds. The top lot is already named Doctor Green (lot 20), while another Doctor Dino gelding named Fauchil (lot 13) was the pick of the remainder when sold to to Dai Walters for £95,000, ahead of a Nathaniel filly (lot 12) at £65,000 and a Walk In The Park filly (lot...

The catalogue for the annual Goffs UK Spring HIT/PTP Sale, set to be held at Doncaster on May 24 and 25, will feature well over 400 Horses-in-Training and Point to Pointers and will be released online early next week. The first day of the sale is dedicated to point-to-point winners and young form horses. The second day of the sale will be dedicated to horses-in-training and will offer drafts from all the leading NH owners and trainers. The second day will also include the annual Million In Mind Dispersal, a...