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Pinhookers have their say on the market ahead of the November Foal Sale at Goffs Philipp Stauffenberg, Fearghal Hogan, Roger O'Callaghan and more have weighed in on what many pinhookers have described as being one of the trickiest yearling sale seasons in recent times and outlined how they will be approaching next week's Goffs November Foal Sale.  Pinhookers definitely didn't have it easy at the yearling sales this year, yet the first chapters of some of the most spinetingling stories of life-changing profits were written at a sale that has...

Arqana, Goffs, Goffs UK, Tattersalls and Tattersalls Ireland have agreed to harmonise the starting letter for sales catalogues from January 1, 2026. The agreement will see all sales which are catalogued alphabetically, either by lot name or dam name, start with the same letter across the participating sales companies. The starting letter for the next three years will be as follows: 2026 - F 2027 - K 2028 - P This change will apply to both Flat and National Hunt sales, with the agreement designed to provide clarity and consistency...

6th-WO, $115K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 3:34 p.m. ET. Mike Repole's European purchasing run last year included TOLD (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}). The owner took home the colt for €200,000 out of Book 1 of the Goffs Orby Yearling sale. Sent to Kevin Attard, Told is out of Cartesienne (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}). The dam's own half-siblings include the Eclipse Award-winning Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', Mawj (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Ire}) and English stakes winner Modern News (GB) (Shamardal). TJCIS PPS

Victorious Forever's Bay City Roller (New Bay) went unbeaten in a three-race juvenile campaign, but was winless in six starts this term, and last year's G2 Champagne Stakes victor powered clear off the front end in Saturday's G1 Grosser Allianz Preis von Bayern at Munich to cap a banner season for Newmarket-based conditioner George Scott. "It couldn't have gone any better," proclaimed Adrie de Vries, whose previous win in the contest came aboard Campanologist (Kingmambo) in 2010. "The trainer was extremely confident in the horse beforehand and that is why...

The catalogue for the Goffs December National Hunt Sale from December 8-10 is now online. Featuring a larger catalogue of 814 lots, there are 745 foals, 58 breeding stock and 11 yearlings and store horses. Graduates that shone this past season include Cheltenham Grade 1 winner Lecky Watson. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. each day. Grade 1 winners with foals selling include Shattered Love (Yeats), who will be represented by a Blue Bresil colt as lot 633; Glens Melody (King's Theatre) has a colt by Poet's Word entered...

Alessandro Marconi was left thanking his lucky stars he missed a flight to America on Monday as a last minute decision to re-route himself to Goffs for the Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale resulted in the bloodstock agent signing for the top lot - the 104-rated Aga Khan-owned Tangapour (Wootton Bassett) - for €185,000 on behalf of an unnamed client.  "I have never been so happy to miss a flight before," he said. "I was meant to be on a flight to America for the sales in Keeneland this morning but I...

La Renommee (Doctor Dino) (lot 72) topped the third edition of the Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase at Doncaster on Friday. Sold for £70,000 to Coolmara Stables, she was offered by Linacres Farm. The seven-time winner won the Listed Yorkshire Silver Vase Mares' Chase in 2024 and was carrying to Logician. The highest-priced foal was a filly by Nathaniel (lot 50) from Goldford Stud. A daughter of the listed winner and Grade 2-placed mare One Gulp (Hernando), she made £60,000 on the bid of Jerry McGrath. She is a half-sister...

An additional 23 yearlings have been added to the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale, which takes place from Monday, November 3 to Wednesday, November 5. The supplementary lots, catalogued as 814-836, will be offered on the final day of the sale. Among them are 12 yearlings eligible for next year's Goffs Two Million Series, including a Sioux Nation filly (lot 822) from Abban Farm, bringing the total number of eligible lots in the catalogue to 16. The sale also offers the final opportunity to secure a runner for Harry's Half Million,...

The Goffs October HIT and Yearling Sale at Doncaster on Tuesday was topped by up-and-coming hurdler Lord, who sold to Donald McCain for £70,000. Sold as lot 58 by trainer Olly Murphy, the three-year-old son of Best Solution is on a three-race winning streak over hurdles after finishing second on his hurdling debut. The dual placed hurdler King John Oliver (Karaktar) (lot 95) was offered by Rahinston Stud and caught the eyes of Olly and Aiden Murphy for £54,000. Rounding out the top three was the bumper-placed Answer That (Holy...

Last term's G2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Powerful Glory (Cotai Glory) was the lowest-rated and least experienced contender lining up for Saturday's G1 Qipco British Champions Sprint at Ascot and, having beaten just one rival in two starts this season, came home with a career high after posting a 200-1 shock in the straight six-furlong dash. His odds are the longest for the winner of a European Group 1 contest, surpassing Qirat's 150-1 in this term's G1 Sussex Stakes. "We always thought he was a nice horse, but at 200-1...

The catalogue for the Goffs October HIT and Yearling Sale at Doncaster has grown by 14 lots with the late addition of Mr McLoughland (Forever Now) (lot 89) and 13 other lots. A winner of two of his three hurdle starts for Jack Jones, Mr McLoughland is joined by lot 90, Jaycee Reidy (Walk In The Park), who won his second and most recent point-to-point; lot 92, Western Zephyr (Westerner), a four-time winner over hurdles and fences and second in a Grade 2 chase at Cheltenham last season; and King...

A 15-strong draft from the Aga Khan Studs is the highlight of the Goffs Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale catalogue that is now online. The sale, which starts at 10 a.m., will begin on Monday, November 3 and will be followed by the Autumn Yearling Sale, which runs until November 5. Among the lots from the Aga Khan Studs are two-time winner Esherann (Wootton Bassett) (lot 90); the winner and G3 Royal Whip Stakes second Tangapour (Wootton Bassett) (lot 93); Reyenzi (Saxon Warrior) (lot 91), who won his maiden by five lengths...