Goffs UK August Sale Catalogues 148

A total of 148 lots consisting of horses-in-training, stores, NH mares and young stock have been catalogued for the Goffs UK August Sale, set to be held on Aug. 9 at Doncaster beginning at 10 a.m.

This year's sale will host two partial dispersals from owners Mike and Eileen Newbould and Gigginstown House Stud. The Newboulds are selling 13 head, including dual Grade 2 winner Third Time Lucki (Ire) (Arcadia {Ger}) (lot 85) and three-time winner West Cork (GB) (Midnight Legend {GB}) (lot 84), who finished second in the G2 Scottish Champion Hurdle. Gigginstown House will offer seven horses-in-training, including Grade 3 winner Highland Change (Ire) (Fame and Glory {GB}), who won a Class 2 Hurdle in his most recent start and will sell as lot 79, and Grade 2-placed Decimation (Ire) (Milan {GB}) (lot 51).

“The August Sale follows on from our largest UK NH sale of the year, the Spring Sale, and hosts our second of four UK store sessions in 2023, the final two being the 2-year-old store sessions in the September and Yorton Sales,” Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent said. “We would like to extend our thanks to Mike and Eileen Newbould who will host a partial dispersal of their racing interests which is headed by the dual Grade 2 winner Third Time Lucki. Along with the Gigginstown House Stud partial dispersal, an annual draft at Doncaster HIT Sales which has produced many highlights over the years, there are plenty of lots to capture the attention of buyers.”

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Shattered Love Anchors Goffs December Day 3

Grade 1 winner Shattered Love (Ire) (Yeats {Ire}) (lot 723) brought a sale-topping €260,000 from MA Bloodstock during Thursday's final session of the Goffs December NH Sale. A winner of the G1 Neville Hotels Fort Leney Novice Chase, the 10-year-old is carrying to Walk in the Park (Ire) and was offered by Gigginstown House Stud.

Another daughter of Yeats from the Gigginstown House draft, Tintangle (Ire) (lot 726), was snapped up by Coolmara Stables in foal to Crystal Ocean (GB). Knocked down for €190,000, the 8-year-old won a listed bumper and was third in the G1 Paddy Power Future Champions Nov. Hurdle.

Gigginstown House also offered the third highest lot of the day-Surin (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}). Newtown Anner/Ballylinch bought the bay for €115,000. Lot 725, a Grade 3 winner over hurdles and Grade 1 placed, visited Poet's Word (Ire) this spring.

From the foal portion of the sale, 408 (68%) sold of 596 offered for a gross of €6,003,800. The average moved up two points to €14,715 and the median was €9,500 (-5%). The entire sale grossed €7,164,300 for 44 sold from 667 offered (66%). The median was unchanged at €10,000 and the average improved to €16,136 (+1%).

Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said, “It's always good to break a record but there is special satisfaction in smashing the six-figure glass ceiling in relation to a NH Foal at Goffs. Indeed a top price of €100,000 sits very high on the scoreboard for the category and was another clear demonstration that Goffs December is now competing for market leading status.

“National Hunt Sales at Goffs have made a meteoric rise in recent years and we are so grateful to all those breeders who now choose Goffs as their first choice in increasing numbers. That so many of the best now come to Kildare Paddocks in June and December is testament to our NH team and expanding to a three-day sale this week was simply down to vendor demand which is quite something when one considers this was a one day, 200 lot sale just 10 years ago.

“As ever we are indebted to every vendor for the trust they place in us with each entry and simply delighted to have returned such a vibrant trade to vindicate that faith in the Goffs service. We wish every buyer the very best of luck and look forward to reoffering many of this week's stand outs back at the Goffs Land Rover and Doncaster Spring Sales in 2024.

“It was also very pleasing to round off the sale with another strong selection of classy broodmares and we are especially appreciative of the ongoing support of Michael and Eddie O'Leary who sold another mighty draft of mares under their Gigginstown banner.

“For now we wish all Goffs clients a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when we hope that the dreaded pandemic will be fully defeated so that we can all focus on the many positives of the this wonderful bloodstock world.”

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High Stakes on Top at Goffs UK September HIT Sale

The Goffs UK September HIT Sale featured National Hunt horses-in-training, and High Stakes (Ire) (Scorpion {Ire}) (lot 61) was knocked down to Tessa Greatrex on behalf of Highflyer Bloodstock to top the sale at £85,000. Offered by John Walsh, the Champion Irish Point-to-Pointer has won four of his five point-to-point starts.

Also a main draw for the sale was the Gigginstown House Stud dispersal, which featured 39 lots, and all of them found new homes for an aggregate of just over £500,000. The dispersal's top price was also the second highest of the day at £42,000 for lot 59, the bumper and chase winner Forged In Fire (Ire) (Presenting {GB}),who went to Gordon Elliott Racing.

Overall, the sale featured a clearance rate of 85% for 129 sold from 152 offered for an aggregate of £1,522,800. The average was just off 2020's at £11,805 (-4%), but the median posted a double-digit increase to £8,000 (+33%).

Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent commented, “The annual dispersal from Gigginstown House Stud will always draw a crowd to the Goffs UK Sales Complex and this has been the case throughout the day with buyers at all levels bidding for a range of horses from a wide variety of vendors. These high-profile drafts have proven to be happy hunting grounds for those looking to buy future winners and we would like to extend our sincere thanks to Michael and Eddie O'Leary for once again entrusting their draft to Goffs UK and this sale.

“It's a busy time for the Goffs UK team as we have back-to-back sales this week with the third annual Yorton Sale to be held tomorrow from 1 p.m. at Yorton Farm in Wales. We look forward to seeing many of today's buyers at Yorton tomorrow and we extend our thanks to all those that were involved with today's sale and wish everyone the best of luck with their purchases.”

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She’s Apple’s: NH Star Tops Goffs At €530,000

It wasn’t too hard to predict that Gigginstown House Stud’s 11-time Grade 1 winner Apple’s Jade (Fr) (Saddler Maker {Ire}) would be the star of the Goffs December National Hunt Sale and, entering the ring just a handful of lots before the end of the two-day auction, the 8-year-old mare (lot 515) duly commanded the top price of the sale, eventually bringing the hammer down at €530,000.

Along with her own illustrious race record, an extra selling point was provided by the fact that Apple’s Jade was offered carrying her first foal by the hugely popular Walk In The Park (Ire), the sire of top-class chasers Douvan (Fr) and Min (Fr). It was her former trainer Gordon Elliott who placed the final bid, and he was acting on behalf of Noel Moran’s Bective Stud.

“It will be a very, very long time before we see her like again and it’s next to impossible to have a chance at auction to buy a mare like her who won 11 Grade 1 races,” said Moran via telephone after the sale. “We’re delighted to have gotten her and I’d say in future we will definitely be keeping her progeny to race.

Gordon Elliott added, “She’s been a horse of a lifetime for me and I hope she will be just as successful for Noel and Valerie. They are looking for some high-class broodmares and she topped the bill. I hope she’s really lucky for them.”

Gigginstown’s Eddie O’Leary also reflected on the career of Apple’s Jade. He said, “She’s a very, very special mare and if she breeds horses with half the heart she has they will be absolutely fine. We’re sorry to see her go as she’s been such a special mare for us and I hope that she will be just as successful for Noel and Valerie.”

Along with Apple’s Jade, her dam, the five-time winner Apple’s For Ever (Fr) (Nikos {Fr}), has also produced the useful Grade 2-winning hurdler and full-sister Apple’s Shakira (Fr) among her five winning offspring to date.

Gigginstown House Stud, which also sold Cheltenham Festival runner-up Barra (Fr) (Vendangeur {Ire}) in foal to Poet’s Word (GB) for €70,000, was the leading vendor at the sale.

The majority of the catalogue was made up of foals, and the demand for the stock of Walk In The Park continued during the second day but the most expensive weanling of the day was a filly by Flemensfirth, who was retired from stud duties in August at the age of 28. The half-sister to the Grade 2-winning chaser and hurdler Irish Saint (Fr) (Saints Des Saints {Fr}) was consigned as lot 288 by Ballyreddin Stud and, at €80,000, was the selection of Peter Molony, a noted buyer of National Hunt fillies whose purchases include the unbeaten five-time Grade 1 winner Honeysuckle (GB) (Sulamani {Ire}).

Molony, who owns Rathmore Stud, said, ” I saw her six weeks ago at home and loved her, and she’s turned inside out since then. It’s a lovely, current pedigree with lots happening and she’s one of the last Flemensfirths.”

He added, “We will take her home and dream for the next two years. We’ll see whether she’ll come back [to the store sale].”

Molony also signed for lot 324, a Walk In The Park filly, for €40,000. He said of Peria Stud’s half-sister to listed bumper winner Glory and Fortune (Ire) (Fame And Glory {GB}), ” She’s a lovely big filly. I love the sire and, again, it’s a nice current pedigree. She’ll definitely be one for the Land Rover Sale in 2023.”

Walk In The Park had 23 foals sold across the two days at an average price of €31,000, well above the overall average for the foal section of the sale, which was €14,487, which was 2.5% up on last year’s trade. The turnover for foals was €4,520,000, which was down by 8% but from 35 fewer foals sold. 

For the sale as a whole, the aggregate was €5,219,100, almost exactly on par with last year, but from the sale of 41 fewer horses. The clearance rate was up a point at 71%, the average was up by 11% at €16,010, and the median down by 4% at €10,000.

Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby said, “To hold the first Thoroughbred sale in Ireland on its scheduled date since the outbreak of Covid-19 is noteworthy in itself. Like everyone in the country we have endured a truly torrid time and approached the sale with a degree of trepidation. Could we even conduct the sale and, if so, how would it measure up?

“On behalf of all the team at Goffs I want to thank everyone – vendors, purchasers, sales staff, vets, caterers, Covid stewards – for their support, forbearance, help and understanding over the last few days. We have managed to conduct a sale in as near to traditional format as possible whilst respecting and implementing a whole range of protocols to ensure Kildare Paddocks was safe and compliant at all times. We salute the patience of all attendees and their acceptance of one-way systems, number restrictions, social distancing, compulsory facemasks and the rest. This is not the way we like to ‘welcome’ visitors to our sales but this is truly a time of ‘needs must’.”

He added, “So to the business. We have been both relieved and delighted with the strength and depth of the two days which was good enough to feel ‘normal’. Indeed, there has been fierce competition for the superb bunch of foals with which we were entrusted by our vendors and to end up with a set of figures that were anywhere near last year’s excellent results, never mind ahead, is such a relief. Again we are so grateful to our vendors who are supporting us with increasing numbers of their best bred National Hunt youngsters as we are nothing without them and their support has allowed us to grow this sale into a catalogue of market leading potential.

“And then there’s Apple’s Jade. We were truly honoured to be entrusted with her by Michael and Eddie O’Leary, and simply overjoyed that she lived up to her star billing. Her price of €530,000 obliterates the record for a National Hunt mare to ensure her appearance in the sales ring absolutely matched up to her racecourse reputation and we look forward to seeing her progeny carry on her mighty legacy, perhaps even in the Goffs sales ring en route to big-race success.”

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