Tim Kent

Trainer Michael O'Callaghan described the sliding figures at the Goffs Breeze-Up Sale on Wednesday as "refreshing" for buyers as Tally-Ho Stud once again dominated at the top end of a polarised market when selling a Mehmas colt to Anthony Stroud at £880,000. Amo Racing and Richard Brown, who filled the role as underbidder, were involved in the running on the Mehmas colt who was out on his own as the most expensive horse sold at this year's sale. Still, he fell £120,000 short of the record-breaking Mehmas colt [Rapid Force]...

This year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster will see the launch of the Harry's 750 Series, featuring the new Harry's Quarter Million Bonus Series. Held in conjunction with the Harry's Half Million by Goffs, which takes place at York's Ebor Festival in August, the Harry's Quarter Million Bonus Series means eligible graduates of the Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale will now race for a total of £750,000 in Harry's 750 Series, starting next year. The bonus series will see selected two-year-old races carry a £25,000 bonus to be awarded...

The Goffs UK Doncaster January Sale, which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 29, has been cancelled. The event will instead be merged with the British NH Breeders Showcase, with an enlarged sale to be held on a new date of Thursday, December 3. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said, "The January Sale was the UK's only dedicated NH foal sale up to 2022 when, following feedback from UK breeders, we introduced a second sale in 2023, the British NH Breeders Showcase, to allow clients an earlier...

Minella Racing's Minella Academy (Sea The Moon) was knocked down for £370,000 during the Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale at Newbury on Saturday. Sold as lot 6 to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins, the three-year-old won his hurdle debut at Cork by eight lengths earlier this month. His granddam, Last Second (Alzao), won the G2 Sun Chariot Stakes, G2 Nassau Stakes and G3 Park Stakes and was second in the G1 Coronation Stakes. At stud, she left 10 winners from 15 foals, among them multiple top-level winner and French Classic...

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 seven-year-old Bumpy Evans (lot 49) topped Monday's Goffs Summer Sale at Doncaster when going the way of Richard Lee Racing for £60,000. Consigned by trainer Tim Vaughan, the son of Ocovango came into the sale as the winner of three of his four starts over fences, having added to that tally on Saturday with a 28-length victory at Cartmel. Other highlights included Stuart Crawford's seven-year-old Bleu d'Enfer (lot 43), who opened his account over fences on his most recent start at Carlisle. He was bought by Jimmy Fyffe for...

The newly-published catalogue for the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale features entries from many of Europe's leading sires, as well as first-season sensation Starman, who is responsible for 17 of the 409 "athletic, precocious Doncaster yearlings" set to go under the hammer on Wednesday, August 27 and Thursday, August 28. Last year Starman was responsible for two of the top five lots, including the subsequent G3 Fillies Sprint Stakes heroine Lady Iman, one of 16 individual winners for her leading first-season sire in 2025. The notable yearlings by Starman featuring in...

The promising young chaser Peaky Boy (Ire) (Kayf Tara {GB}) (lot 44) will continue his racing career with Jonjo and AJ O'Neill after he achieved the top price at Tuesday's Goffs January Sale. Offered by Nicky Henderson's Seven Barrows, the seven-year-old was led out of the ring not sold at £195,000, before being purchased privately by O'Neill Racing for an undisclosed, six-figure sum. The horses-in-training session featured a nine-strong draft from Coolmeen Farms, with their five-year-old Johnny's Jury (Ire) (lot 22) proving the most expensive of the day's other lots....

The catalogue for the 2025 Goffs January Sale at Doncaster, the first sale of the new year which will be held on Tuesday 21 January, is now available to view online. The catalogue comprises 179 lots featuring 93 NH weanlings and young stock, 46 NH mares and 40 horses-in-training. Supplementary entries will be taken up to the time of the sale and can be made online. The NH weanling session follows on from the successful British NH Breeders Showcase held in November and features another strong line-up, with 43 of...

Eighteen point-to-point graduates feature in the catalogue for the Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale, which takes place after racing at Newbury on Saturday, November 30. Inspections will be open on Friday and Saturday, with showing to take place next to the racecourse stables, before the sale gets underway in the Owners and Trainers facility after the last race at 3.35pm. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said, "We have had a very good response to the Coral Gold Cup Sale from the point-to-point handlers and have assembled a strong catalogue...

The second edition of the Coral Gold Cup Sale will take place during Newbury's feature meeting on Saturday, November 30, Goffs announced in partnership with the racecourse on Thursday. Of the 18 horses sold at the inaugural sale, 13 achieved a six-figure sum and the average was £119,167. Staged on the same day as the £250,000 Coral Gold Cup, the sale will see changes this year with plans in place to hold it in the pre-parade ring, right opposite the owners and trainers' facility. The horses will also be stabled...

Olly Murphy's prolific hurdler Bowling Buddy (Ire) (Ask {GB}) topped Tuesday's Goffs October HIT and Yearling Sale at Doncaster when selling to Adam Nicol for £58,000. Offered as lot 146, he gained his third consecutive success from only four starts under Rules when winning a novice hurdle at Wetherby last week. Other notable lots included the five-year-old Highly Recommended (GB) (Highland Reel {Ire}), who was consigned by Mel Rowley's Poplar Cottage Stables as lot 149 following his victory in a novice hurdle at Ludlow. He sold to Mary Lewis for...