Henry Beeby

A select offering of 74 two-year-olds will be offered at the second edition of the Goffs Classic Breeze-Up Sale, which takes place on Saturday, June 27 during Ireland's premier Classic weekend, the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival. The catalogue is now available online. All lots will breeze at Naas Racecourse five days ahead of the sale on Monday, June 22, giving buyers additional time to review and inspect the horses. The sale will begin at 6.15pm on Saturday at Goffs, following afternoon racing at the Curragh where the feature...

Entries for the €1,000,000 Goffs Million - Europe's richest two-year-old race - will close at 12 noon on Wednesday, May 6, with connections urged to secure their place in one of the most valuable races of the season. Run on the eve of the 2026 Orby Sale at the Curragh on Saturday, September 26, the seven-furlong contest offers prize-money down to tenth place and is exclusively open to horses catalogued in the 2025 Orby Book 1 and Book 2 Sales that were nominated and declared eligible for the Goffs Two...

Grade 2 chase winner Malaita (Malinas) topped the GoffsGo April Sale on Thursday. Sold as lot 23, she caught the eye of Thistletown Stud for £22,000. Consigned by Poplar Cottage Stables, the 10-year-old mare won five times, including the G2 Mares' Novices' Handicap Chase. Malaita is a half-sister to the multiple graded-placed jumper The Saint James (Saint Des Saints). Under the second dam are graded hurdlers Highway To Hell (No Risk At All) and Five O'Clock (Cokoriko). "We are very happy with the sale of Malaita," said David Minton, part...

Cheltenham hopeful Glance At Midnight sold for £245,000 to top the GoffsGo February Sale when selling to Ryan Mahon on behalf of Dan Skelton on Thursday. The son of Passing Glance (lot 3) holds entries in both the G1 Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle and the G1 Turners Novices' Hurdle at next month's Cheltenham Festival. A winner of a bumper and a maiden hurdle, Glance At Midnight was last seen running second in the Listed Sidney Banks Hurdle at Huntingdon. Said Mahon of his purchase, "He's a nice horse with...

Well-bred Aga Khan mares dominated on the second and final day of the Goffs February Sale, with Alex Elliott going to €190,000 to secure Shamalza (Lope De Vega), who the bloodstock agent said would continue her career for Valmont and trainer Ralph Beckett.  A winner on debut for Dermot Weld back in September, Shamalza failed to land a blow on her only other start when the ground was heavy. A daughter of dual Group 2 scorer Shamreen (Dubawi), Shamalza is a sister to talented sprinter Shartash (Invincible Spirit) and Elliott...

Henry Beeby says that Goffs "can't wait to get going for the year" ahead of the February Sale which features progeny by Havana Grey, Mehmas, New Bay, Night Of Thunder, Sands Of Mali, Sea The Stars, Walk In The Park and Starman as well a brother [lot 53] to recent Grade 2 mares' hurdle winner Feet Of A Dancer (Authorized). Pinhookers resembled happy cows being let out to spring grass for the first time on the eve of the two-day February Sale, which kicks off the Goffs sale season at...

The catalogue for the Goffs February Sale, set for February 11-12, is now online. A total of 416 Flat and National Hunt horses of all ages will go through the Kildare Paddocks ring on that Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday's session will feature 266 weanlings, while the Thursday session will include juveniles, stores, horses-in-training, and breeding stock. The inaugural Goffs February Point-to-Point Sale will take place immediately after the conclusion of the Goffs February Sale. Its catalogue will be available in the coming days. Some of the Flat weanling sires represented...

Nicky Henderson has been awarded the Willie Stephenson Memorial Trophy, which commemorates the person or person whom the Goffs UK Board feel have made the biggest contribution to the success of the company during that year. The award was presented at Newbury this past Saturday. Training out of Seven Barrows Stables, the multiple champion trainer has had many talented horses pass through his care, not least Goffs UK alumni Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) and Jonbon (Walk In The Park), who have won 18 Grade 1 races between them. Said Goffs...

Bear with me now, but parallels could be drawn between the Irish football team's World Cup qualification campaign and the Goffs November Foal Sale. Last year's sale was akin to the boys in green thumping Portugal 2-0 in the Aviva Stadium. Nobody saw it coming.  One swallow doesn't make a summer, though, and it would all have been forgotten had Ireland come up short in Hungary. Well, Troy Parrott didn't read the script, and neither did Henry Beeby. A last-minute winner in Budapest gives Ireland a fighting chance of making...

There can be few forces more unstoppable than a stallion on fire and Yeomanstown Stud's recent purchase Sands Of Mali ensured that the warm glow that burned bright in the sales ring throughout this year's Goffs November Foal Sale remained ablaze until the bitter end on Thursday.  Sands Of Mali was responsible for two of the most expensive lots - a filly and a colt at €100,000 and €90,000 respectively - on a day when the turnover climbed by 24%, the average by 17% and the median by 27%. Such...

Those American prospectors sufficiently resourceful--in every sense of that word--to mine some genetic gold at the European breeding stock sales generally fall into two camps. For some, an expanding and ever more lucrative grass (and synthetic) schedule in North America will offset the commercial distrust of turf bloodlines in their homeland. But others may also recognize that Thoroughbreds are more versatile than we typically allow them to be, hoping to emulate the impact on dirt of bloodlines imported from Europe by outstanding breeders of the last century. Both agendas have...

Strong chance that Willie Browne leaves his Christmas shopping until the last minute. Why? The legendary breeze-up handler played a leading role at this week's Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale - one of the last yearling sales of the year - by spending €160,500 on four horses, which included the top lot by Sioux Nation at €88,000. Peter Nolan and Noel Meade, Spanish bloodstock agent Francisco Bernal along with BBA Ireland agents Mick Donohoe and Adam Potts could well be in a similar boat, as they also contributed to what turned...