Irish sale

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...

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...

Turquoise Bloodstock paid €65,000 for La Renegada (Lope De Vega) to top the second and final day of the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale on Saturday. The four-year-old daughter of multiple listed winner Against Rules (Aussie Rules), herself third in the G3 Prix Belle de Nuit, is in foal to Group 1 sire Make Believe. Sold as lot 1353 by Ballylinch Stud, she is kin to Nice To See You (Siyouni), a multiple stakes winner in France and second in the G3 Prix Edmond Blanc. Fourth dam Mill Princess (Mill...

The catalogue for the Goffs November Foal Sale, which has 998 lots, was released on Friday. Recent past graduates include the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas/G1 St James's Palace Stakes hero Field Of Gold (Kingman), G1 Phoenix Stakes winner Power Blue (Space Blues) and G1 Prix du Cadran winner Caballo De Mar (Phoenix Of Spain). Some of the choicest lots on offer include: lot 553, a son of Gleneagles who is a half-brother to G2 Gimcrack Stakes hero Lifeplan (Kodi Bear); a State Of Rest half-brother (lot 565) to G2 Prix...

The 50th edition of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale catalogue was released on Thursday. Featuring 406 stores, the sale is set for June 26-27 and begins at 10:30 a.m. each morning.  All lots catalogued are eligible for the €100,000 Tattersalls Ireland George Mernagh Memorial Sales Bumper 2025. A wide variety of sires have progeny on offer, including Doctor Dino (Fr), Maxios (GB), Great Pretender (Ire), Walk In The Park (Ire), Beaumec De Houelle (Fr), Crystal Ocean (GB), Poet's Word (Ire), Getaway (Ger), Affinisea (Ire), Blue Bresil (Fr), and No Risk...

La Petite Sissi (Ire) (Ivawood {Ire}) (lot 385), a half-sister to G1 Pretty Polly S. heroine La Petite Coco (Ire) (Ruler Of The World {Ire}), is one of the leading lots catalogued for the Goffs February Sale on Feb. 7-8. A total of 431 lots are spread across the two days featuring both Flat and National Hunt horses of all ages, with each session beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday's session begins with 2-year-olds, horses-in-training and stores followed by a weanling section with a wide variety of sires represented. Foals kick...

Tuesday's session featured Walk In The Park (Ire) as the sire of the top three lots at the Goffs December National Hunt Sale, and Wednesday's trade reflected much the same story, with that aforementioned sire responsible for two of the three top lots. However, it was No Risk At All (Fr)'s lot 605 that stole the show, when Glenvale Stud made a winning bid of €120,000 to top the session. Out of the Kayf Tara (GB) mare Hidden Harmony (Ire), the colt, the only one by his sire in the...

The catalogue for the 524-strong Goffs Sportman's Sale is now online. Scheduled for Sept. 29-30 beginning at 9:30 a.m. each day, all lots are eligible for the €100,000 Goffs Sportsman's Challenge race over six furlongs at Naas in September of 2023. Some of the sire power on offer includes Acclamation (GB), Australia (GB), Camelot (GB), Caravaggio, Dark Angel (Ire), Exceed And Excel (Aus), Fastnet Rock (Aus), Gleneagles (Ire), Havana Grey (GB), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kodiac (GB), Lope de Vega (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), New Bay (GB), Night of Thunder (Ire), Oasis...