Thistletown Stud

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...

The top lot on the second day of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale came late in the session when Aisling Noone and Simon Cavanagh of Drumloose Stables went to €54,000 for the Harzand (Ire) colt (lot 416) consigned by Garryrichard Stud. "As soon as we saw him we fell in love with him," Noone said of the foal. "We sold a Harzand for a client at the Derby Sale to Kevin Ross, so we have had some luck with him, and we have gone back to the well...

A colt by Jeu St Eloi (Fr) from Jimmy and Eileen Furlong's Thistletown Stud topped the opening day of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale at €58,000. The foal, who went through the ring as lot 156, is out of the Listed-placed chaser Molly Childers (Ire) (Stowaway {GB}) and was bought by Brian and Eoghan Murphy of Redpender Stud, who signed as Briown. "He is a standout today," said Eoghan. "The sire has done really well and the mare has black-type, too. Hopefully, he will come back to the...