‘Few Make A Living Doing What They Love – I am Lucky To Be One Of Them’

He has been crowned British racing's best broadcaster of the year an astounding eight times but Nick Luck remains as hungry as ever.

From talking about the success of his daily podcast, the Nick Luck Daily Podcast, revealing that he will make his Melbourne Cup debut this year and providing his own thoughts on the major issues affecting British racing, Luck makes for fascinating reading in this week's Q&A.

Brian Sheerin: You sat down with Lee Mottershead for the Big Read in the Racing Post almost two years ago. A lot has changed in that time as the Nick Luck Daily Podcast, which you had just launched at the time, has emerged as being required listening for anyone in racing or breeding. 

Nick Luck: When I did that interview with Lee, we were emerging from lockdown and there were still a lot of restrictions so, sitting down and doing the podcast every day was challenging enough but I had the time to do it. When life started to get back to normal, there was as much racing as there's ever been, and there was something of an explosion of material online. But people's lives were getting busier again. The execution of the podcast became that bit more difficult. At that point, the question was, can we keep it up? I had got myself into a position where I was in sufficiently deep and I am really glad that I did keep going because, with the help of the small team who are absolutely crucial to me, it's gone okay.

BS: I have this vision in my head of you cramming like a teenager about to sit a college exam before you cover a range of different topics on the show but I gather it all comes pretty natural to you and you can do everything from memory?

NL: I do have quite a retentive memory but I don't think that I am alone in that, especially with people who are working in an industry that they love. With people working in horse racing and bloodstock, something that they are passionate about, they tend to find that their brain will retain a lot of information. When it's something you love, it tends to sit there more readily than if it was something that you found was a bit of a chore. I do have a good memory and I can think about a lot of different things at the one time but the podcast is no different than what the wider racing media is doing because you can never plan too much. You never quite know what is going to drop and when it will happen. The medium allows you that bit of agility and you've got to play up to that. I could sit there and plan everything the night before the podcast but I try and leave the real meaty content to as late as I can possibly get away with. I am always thinking about it–it's always there bubbling away, wherever I am or whatever I'm doing–but I couldn't tell you what tomorrow's podcast is going to be called or what the lead news item will be. I can tell you who will be on the podcast but that's about as far as I can go. 

BS: You obviously adopt the same principles to live television?

NL: Yes and no. For example, say I am doing a big interview on the Sunday programme for Racing TV. You've got to book your guests some way in advance of and you'd be thinking about them-the sort of person that they are, what to make of the person or personality that they've become and you really just try and get underneath that. I am someone who tends to ruminate on it for some period of time. I am not someone who sits down and writes out a series of precise questions because I want to have a good all-round understanding of who that person is and, when they are actually sitting there in front of me, be light enough on my feet to go with the conversation and not be too linear. I want to be able to be responsive. I think it's all about being prepared for anything but not so much that you become overprepared and rigid. That's just the way I like to work. 

BS: I can hear one of your young daughters in the background making her presence felt!

NL: If you listen to the podcast carefully enough, you'll pick up all sorts of background noise. My desk is right beside the front door in our house and, when I started doing the podcast, I attempted to close all the doors and make things as quiet as possible. I soon realised that it was completely pointless. If I was going to impose this ridiculous commitment upon my family, well then I just had to suck it up and carry on with whatever background noise was going on. That's completely fine by me-it's more authentic anyway. You are allowing people into your life. I am usually intruding into theirs. Quite often, a trainer will ask me to call them back if they're on the gallops because the sound of wind, rain or hooves in the background. I always say, 'no, it's fine,' as it makes it a bit more real. Sometimes, some of the best interviews we do and some of the best items we have got on there are when somebody is in the middle of something else. They might even let you have an interesting snippet of information when they're only half-thinking of the questions!

BS: I'd put it to you that some people will find it hard to believe that you do have a young family and a life outside of racing because, the one thing people say when your name is mentioned is work ethic. I know you're just back from Saratoga for example. It's a lot of balls to be juggling at once, including family life, so how do you manage everything?

NL: I don't know to be honest. I never think too far ahead and sometimes that can be an advantage as you never get too stressed about your schedule or how busy you might be in the coming weeks or months. You just try to concentrate on the job at hand and make sure everybody is alright. I don't have an awful lot of time for hobbies now, that is for sure. But when you are working in a sport and an industry where it's your passion, well then that compensates for that. When I am at home, I want to be spending as much time with Laura and the girls as I possibly can. I'm getting a bit better at planning holiday time. 

BS: I remember you said that losing the terrestrial television gig with Channel 4 made you even more hungry to attack new opportunities. Nobody could accuse you of failing to do that and I saw NBC's coverage of the Whitney at Saratoga generated over one million viewers. 

NL: I am coming up to 20 years in the job. I started at the end of October in 2002 and, genuinely, I have never reached a point where I felt, 'I don't want to do this anymore, I want to try something else.' Contracts have come and contracts have gone and I have shifted between networks but I have never once thought about packing it all in and doing something different. There's so much variety in racing and it keeps you fresh. I'm going to broadcast the Melbourne Cup for the first time this year. That will be my first time doing that and I'm excited about it. I'm slightly terrified about the logistics of getting to Melbourne and then Breeders' Cup in Kentucky right off the back of it, but my NBC producer Lindsay Schanzer has been very encouraging. And making the racing world a little bit smaller, which is something that you guys do [TDN] on a daily basis, was one of the driving reasons behind doing the podcast. You have that opportunity now to do what you simply couldn't do 20 years ago. For very little outlay, you can speak to anybody in the world and try to bring people from all over the globe a little bit closer. People must feel much better connected with racing internationally now more so than ever. 

BS: Another thing you have brought to the podcast is the breaking of news stories. Often, it's the podcast that leads the agenda on a given day. Is that something you set out to do, not only react to news but to break it?

NL: It wasn't necessarily a goal of mine starting out. I was just trying to produce a nice audio digest of the day's news and events. Also, it is a luxury being your own editor and having the freedom to chase what you might be interested in. Then you just have to hope that it will be reflected by the people who tune in. Needless to say, we are very lucky with the small group of regular contributors who are always providing insight. I conceived of it as a nice, sharp digest of the racing news that you could listen to while you are walking the dog, having a bath or whatever you're doing wherever you are in the world. That's what I was going for. But I think the scope for the podcast is pretty limitless and, part of the beauty of it, is because there are so many dimensions to the sport. It's very unlikely that one podcast or newspaper can cover everything. There's always something new for somebody to cover every day. As I said, I never set out to be the person who breaks all the news, but there will always be something there for you. For example, this morning the TDN had a nice story about the sales at Deauville, the Racing Post led with the Paddy Power story, Matt Chapman tweeted about Maljoom (GB) (Caravagio) missing the Prix Jacques le Marois and I was on the phone to Philippa Cooper who told me that she was winding down her breeding operation. I actually rang Philippa about something completely different and that happened to come out. The more people you talk to, the more likely these stories will drop into your lap. 

BS: What about the times when it didn't go so well; are there many interviews you'd like a second crack at?

NL: I rang Andre Fabre to ask him for a quote on Lester Piggott. I've got to say, because I am an English journalist, he is normally very friendly and he was on this occasion. However, I found myself asking him some fairly stupid questions. He kindly, but very firmly told me, 'I don't mean to be mean, but I am afraid the questions that you are asking me are completely pointless.' There was a very long pause before I said merci and quietly put the phone down. It was lucky I had the luxury of editing that bit out of although it may have given people more of a laugh if I'd left it there. 

BS: Well you are a braver man than me for interviewing him in the first place. 

NL: To that point, he was very charming about it and I think I had asked him a couple of clunkers. But the beauty about this sport is, everyone will answer their phone and, if they don't, they will send you a message saying they don't feel like talking or they may ask to arrange a different time or whatever it is. The access is really good. 

BS: I agree but sometimes you earn that access. When I think of the late Barney Curley, I think of the interview he gave you on Luck On Sunday. Patrick Veitch was another. 

NL: The credit for that Barney Curley interview largely goes to Barney himself, as he clearly had a distinct idea in his own mind about what he wanted to say and what he wanted to get off his chest. There were things that he was thinking about for years and he wanted to say them out loud as he knew he wasn't very well. So, there was a slight feel of the last will and testament about it and I just happened to be there at the right time to do the interview. However, my producer Bruce Clements had been curating that relationship for a little while and I always had a reasonably good understanding with Barney. I knew he wanted to do it, it was just a question of when. That's part of the job; you build a level of respect with people over time and you hope that respect is reciprocated. That doesn't mean you go around sucking up to people, not at all, but you build a trust so that when you do want to do something with that person if they are in the news for whatever reason, you might be in the right slot. Genuinely, people who know me know that I am quite social, love chatting and I am naturally very interested in people's lives and what makes them tick. Hopefully that's the driver behind what I am doing. 

BS: Can you let us in on who you're working on next? Do you have a list of ideal candidates you'd like to interview?

NL: There are people I would like to interview who I haven't had on before but, whether they will ever do it, I don't know. The nice thing about it now is that there are people who will sometimes approach us and say that they would like to be on the show. 

BS: As well as your extensive television work, you also have skin in the game and are involved in the breeding side of things. Can you tell us about that?

NL: My own little mare hasn't exactly been a startling success! Her first runner was a winner and I walked around thinking I was a cross between John Magnier and Marcel Boussac! The barren three and a half years that followed have swiftly eradicated that notion. I am full of admiration for anyone who can go in at any level and make any sort of success out of breeding because it's a good game for humbling you. I helped out my late mother, who we sadly lost this year, with the jumps mares. Ironically, that came good latterly with some of her progeny making a lot of money albeit for other people. We still have Grainne Ni Maille (GB) [the dam of Madmansgame (GB) (Blue Bresil {Fr}) and Gentlemansgame (GB) (Gentlewave {GB})] and she has a filly foal at foot. I'd like to carry that on for my mum. We own Grainne Ni Maille in partnership with Yorton Stud. It's funny, Dave Futter said we should keep the Blue Bresil filly out of Grainne Ni Maille as a foal but I said a bird in the hand is better than two in the ditch. We sold her for £16,500 at Goffs in January 2020 but she made €195,000 at the Land Rover Sale in June. That shows what kind of a judge I am! The filly foal is a full-sister to Gentlemansgame so hopefully she can do well for us. 

BS: We hear a lot of doom and gloom about racing in Britain and Ireland right now. You're normally the one pitching the questions as you take the pulse on the industry on an almost-daily basis but what are your own thoughts?

NL: I have been considering this while looking at some of the data that's around on the number of horses there are in training, how many races there are, races not filling, various ideas about races being chopped off the bottom end and the Peter Savill plan for the industry. We have been encouraging people to breed a lot of horses for a very long time and it's a very reductive solution to turn around and say 'let's just chop the races off at the bottom.' On top of everything else, you then present yourself with an enormous horse welfare problem if that's the solution. Yes, you need to take an intuitive approach to the fixture list to ensure that races will fill but it's not as straightforward as just cutting fixtures. I feel that the basic principle of the Savill plan is the right one in that you are trying to make the top end of your sport the envy of the world. You get that slimmer part of that pyramid much more intense, much more competitive and enjoyable, and then it becomes something you can sell and people will always be able to anticipate it. Just slicing off the bottom end will not in itself create that environment. You then need to incentivise the racecourses to put on the most attractive opportunities possible for the rest of the horse population and actually make things easier. People are in this sport because they want to win. They love their Class 6 horse dearly, but they'll love it even more if they're winning races with it so that they can go and reinvest in the sport. I'm not sure that I buy this idea by removing a whole load of “bad races” that you automatically make the top any better. You have to treat the different parts of the pyramid accordingly. 

BS: So we need to bolster the product but not at the detriment of lower grade racing.

NL: We have encouraged the production of a lot of horses in Britain and Ireland. We need to have enough opportunities to cater for these horses and also a robust enough plan in place to cater for their aftercare when their racing days are over. Or, we need to breed fewer horses–it is not feasible to complain we have too many moderate horses while at the same time thinking it's just fine to cover 250 low to medium grade mares a season with cheap and cheerful stallions. What are you expecting?

BS: You mentioned earlier that you never thought in over 20 years working in racing about doing anything different. I know you may have been advised to do something different at one point in time but you remain fascinated by the sport. 

NL: There are things I would have loved to have done and there are other areas of television that I am sure would give me a huge thrill. Foremost, I love the business of broadcasting, otherwise I wouldn't have been in it for so long. It's not to say I wouldn't enjoy doing other things and wouldn't look at doing other things but I find it impossible to think about walking away from horse racing. There are very few people who make a living at something they love doing and I am lucky to be one of them.

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Chris Dixon – ‘I Am Absolutely Certain Raasel Is A Group Horse’

   He may be best known for his role as presenter and pundit with Racing TV, but Chris Dixon has also carved out a reputation for being able to find bargain horses to run under the banner of The Horse Watchers, of which his brother Martin also plays an integral role.

   The Horse Watchers have had a lot to shout about down through the years, with the owners approaching 100 winners all told, but the best may yet be to come on Saturday when the Mick Appleby-trained Raasel (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) lines out in the G3 Coral Charge at Sandown.

   Dixon is convinced that Raasel is the best horse The Horse Watchers have ever owned. From revealing an ambitious plan with the sprinter that could lead to Group 1 races in the autumn to explaining about what the syndicate will be trying to buy at the Tattersalls July Sale at Newmarket next week, Dixon shares all with Brian Sheerin in this week's Q&A.

 

Brian Sheerin: This is a big week for The Horse Watchers with Raasel running in the G3 Coral Charge at Sandown. He is rated 108 after winning the Betfred Nifty Fifty Achilles S. at Haydock and that would suggest you are now dealing with a genuine group horse. Is that how you see it?

 

Chris Dixon: I am absolutely certain that he is a group horse, regardless of what happens on Saturday. I have never believed it as strongly about one of our horses before. In fairness, we have not had many who were genuine group class before–we've had a couple who were listed class–but Raasel is the best we've had. Rhoscolyn (GB) (Territories {Ire}) was listed-placed while Big Country (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) won at listed level and they were operating in a much hotter division. The sprint division is obviously easier and, within it, I think Raasel is a genuine group horse. He's an out-and-out five-furlong horse. Saturday will tell us more but, the way that he won at Haydock, which didn't surprise us at all, suggests that he is up to this level.

 

BS: Have you got a plan for him beyond Saturday?

 

CD: He goes to Sandown on Saturday and, whatever the result, he then goes to Goodwood for the G2 King George Sprint. He's two-from-two at Goodwood so we know that the track suits him well. After that, he'll either go for the G1 Flying Five S. at the Curragh or he'll go for the G1 Nunthorpe S. at York. He has entries in both races.

 

BS: It's no secret that The Horse Watchers operates on a budget. This horse cost 10,000gns. How much of a thrill is it to have unearthed one like Raasel for that sort of money?

 

CD: You've got to be realistic. Principally, what we try to find are well-handicapped horses who may climb the ranks and become smart handicappers. If they are better than that, then great. With the budgets that we have been working with, and we've never spent more than 50,000 on a horse, you are not really expecting to come across a group horse. But with Raasel, from the moment we bought him, we all felt that he had the potential to become a group horse. A lot of that was based on the fact that he hadn't really been tried. He'd run just twice and looked potentially group-class on his debut effort. He then ran on unsuitable ground at Newmarket and obviously had a problem as he wasn't seen for some time after that.

BS: What sort of a problem did he have? It was obviously something that you and the team were willing to forgive.

 

CD: We got lucky with him. Jason Kelly does a lot of the bidding for us and I sent him in to buy Raasel. I told him to ask me if I wanted to keep bidding once he got into the thirties. We went there with a budget of 40,000gns to buy him and couldn't quite believe it when he was knocked down to us for just 10,000gns. Shadwell are very open with their notes and the reason why he was so cheap is because he had a high suspensory issue. For a lot of people, they are not willing to deal with that problem. When you are dealing with budgets, you have to forgive things, and we got Raasel vetted as we do with every one of the horses we go to buy, no matter what the budget. Having done some more digging, the vet [Eoghan Nagle] realised that it was a high suspensory issue behind, which seemingly is a bit of a game-changer, although I wasn't aware of this at the time I must admit. His prognosis was that, if we just gave him the time, he thought he'd be okay. He was actually very sweet on the horse and that gave us the confidence to go and buy him. Even if we are buying something for 10,000-15,000gns, we will always get them vetted, as then you can provide full disclosure to people and that is important when you are running a syndicate.

 

BS: And what role do your trainers Mick Appleby and David O'Meara play at the sales?

 

CD: We come up with our list and we give it to Mick and David. We go around the sales with Mick but David usually looks at all of the horses by himself or with Jason Kelly. Mick is just excellent. He has a knack and I can't explain what it is. He struggles to put into words what he does and doesn't like in a horse, and he will admit that himself, but he knows what works and what doesn't. He has a fabulous record in getting these horses sound and well. He wouldn't like horses with bad knees. That would be a big turn-off. If their knees are no good, then basically scratch them off the list. But if they have back problems and things like that, he's more than happy to get things like that sorted, and his record speaks for itself.

 

BS: And are there certain stallions that you won't look at or can you afford to be sniffy when operating on a budget?

 

CD: We'll look at anything. There are horses that you just know that you won't afford. We've had discussions about trying to buy horses to race internationally but, ultimately, those horses are hard to buy right now. We look for something that the foreign market doesn't want just yet, because in ratings terms, they are not good enough. We try to buy something that we believe will be able to get to that level and will be of interest to that market one day. We will buy lowly-rated horses as well. For example, we bought Intervention (GB) (Swiss Spirit {GB}) when he was rated in the 50s. He won the prize for being the winningmost horse on the all-weather last season. There are some sires you wouldn't be overly keen on but a lot of the ones that we definitely wouldn't buy are not around anymore. I don't think there's any sire that we absolutely wouldn't buy. Once you're looking at a handicapper, the sire is something that comes into the mix but it would never be the starting point.

 

BS: You have had horses in training for over 10 years now. Have you found it tougher to buy this type of horse of late given the strength of the market?

 

CD: It definitely has been tougher. The market has inflated and you've got to be aware of that when you go into the ring. You have to be willing to push on a little bit for the horses that you like because, at the end of the day, while you don't want to overpay for something, if you buy something just because you quite liked it and it was cheap, as soon as they are a bit disappointing, you will be saying, 'I wish I hadn't bought that.' Even a cheap horse, it's still quite a lot of money to keep that horse in training. I would much rather push on a bit and buy the ones that we do like and that's something we have changed about our approach to the sales in recent years.

 

BS: How so?

 

CD: If we do like one, we'll go a bit stronger than we usually would have. Equally, if there is one thing we aren't keen on about a horse, well then we're out. We've become more selective. When we got to the sales, we have a meeting between the four of us, which is myself, Martin [Dixon, brother], Richard O'Brien and Matt Taylor. We would discuss all of the horses on the list and grade them from one to three. The ones are the horses we'd push on to buy but we've actually stopped buying the threes because we realised a few years ago that none of them have ever been any good.

 

BS: What will you be looking for at the July Sale at Newmarket next week?

 

CD: Well-handicapped horses that we think can progress; horses that we believe have an upside, to whatever level we think that will be. We're not interested in horses rated 85 who we think need to get dropped before they can be competitive. We are more interested in horses who might be rated 70 but we feel could end up being rated 85. Then, once they're on the up and if the money is right, we'd let them go.

 

BS: Raasel must be worth quite a lot of money now. Would there be any commercial temptation there?

 

CD: We have always been of a selling mentality. That's how we have kept the whole thing going. We sell horses all the time and that's something we will continue to do. But Raasel is a slightly different case in that he's a 5-year-old and he did have a slight problem earlier in his career. He's completely perfect for us as a racehorse but, if he was vetted to go abroad, something might show up. As well as that, he doesn't stand us a lot of money given he cost only 10,000gns. He is running for quite a lot of prize money so it makes sense to keep him. Now, if he had cost us 50,000gns for example, we might be of a different mindset. But, because we don't have a lot of money tied up in him, he probably won't be sold. Contrary to what a lot of people might think, once a horse reaches a certain level, we are happy to let them go rather than trying to get them back down the handicap. The interesting bit for us is when you first get a horse and you get them on a nice trajectory because you don't know where the ceiling is. Once that horse hits the ceiling, we like to move them on. I suspect that a lot of horses that we sell would be very good buys because their level is there for everyone to see.

Take Warrior Brave (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}) for example, we sold him to Ross O'Sullivan for 100,000gns. We told Ross that we'd be very surprised if he could improve him but that he was a rock-solid 100 horse. They've kept him at that and he's given his owner a lot of fun. If he happens to get dropped five or six pounds, then he'd probably have a big chance in a premier handicap.

 

BS: What is the breakdown of The Horse Watchers and how does it work?

 

CD: There are the four us–myself, Martin, Richard and Matt–who have been involved from the start. It used to be the case that we owned all the horses ourselves and the first horse we syndicated ended up being put down, which put us off the idea of syndicating horses. When Covid hit, it took a drain on the finances of the syndicate and we decided that we either cut the number of horses we had in training or else gave syndicating another go. What we do now is keep between 30% to 40% of every horse we buy and sell between six and seven shares. If they don't sell out, we're more than happy to keep the shares ourselves, but that's the general approach to things.

 

BS: Along with running The Horse Watchers Syndicate and working for Racing TV, you recently added another string to your bow and became a jockeys' agent. Tell us a bit more about that.

 

CD: I took on Jason Watson in November. It happened by accident really and I did it as a trial during the winter. Jason had a very good winter and I really enjoyed it. Cieren Fallon asked me if I would take him on at the same time but I told him I was only doing Jason as a trial to see if I enjoy it and whether I had time to do it all. He came back to me in the spring and I was very happy to take him on at that point. The plan was to do two Flat jockeys for the full season and I would maybe add a third and possibly fourth Flat jockey next year as I have always been a believer that, with that job, you can't do too many. However, when Dave Roberts [renowned agent] packed up, a group of 10 jump jockeys came to me and asked me if I was interested in doing it for them. Martin agreed to help but ultimately it's one person who makes all the calls and I found very quickly that doing 10 jump jockeys on top of my Flat lads was just too much. If I packed up the television work I could have done it but I just didn't feel I could do them justice with the time that I had. I felt I could get away with it but I wasn't doing a good job. Now I just have Jason, Cieren and Alistair Rawlinson on the Flat and Tom Scudamore and Sean Bowen over jumps.

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Paddy Trainor Named Employee of the Year at the GSSSA

Johnston Racing's Patrick 'Paddy' Trainor was named the Employee of the Year at the Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards on Monday. Hosted by Oli Bell, the ceremony was held virtually and broadcast live on Racing TV. The awards were organised by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in conjunction with media partners Racing Post and Racing TV.

Trainor will receive £10,000, with the same amount shared with his colleagues at Johnston Racing, as well as the Godolphin Trophy. Earlier in the night, Trainor, who has worked for Johnston Racing for 23 years, won the Rider/Groom Award and £5,000, with an equivalent amount once again split between Johnston Racing employees. An Industry Coach, Trainor works with less experienced members of the Johnston team to develop their skills and improve their knowledge of horse welfare.

The full list of winners are as follows:

Employee of the Year & Rider/Groom: Paddy Trainor – Johnston Racing Ltd.

David Nicholson Newcomer: Elouise O'Hart – Ed Walker

Leadership: Tom Messenger – Dan Skelton

Stud Staff: Dulcie West – North Farm Stud

 Dedication: Alyson West – James Ferguson

 Community (In recognition of the wonderful work Rory

 MacDonald achieved at The British Racing School):

Freedom Zampaladus – Urban Equestrian Academy

 

Julie Harrington, Chief Executive of the BHA, said, “Everybody nominated tonight has done their bit to make horse racing a better sport and for that we are all extremely grateful. Measures have remained in place on racecourses throughout the last 12 months to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 and, as has been the case throughout the pandemic, those impacted have adapted their working style admirably and ensured that our sport has continued uninterrupted since its resumption in June 2020.

“My heartfelt congratulations go to all of tonight's winners and nominees, in particular Paddy Trainor, and my thanks go to our sponsor Godolphin and the judging panel for their hard work.”

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Condren Appointed Goffs UK Head of Sales

Bernard Condren has been appointed to Head of Sales of Goffs UK and will join the company beginning Feb. 7. Bernard, who began bid spotting at Goffs in 2000, made his debut as an auctioneer at Goffs in 2006. Previously, Bernard spent 11 years with Racing TV.

“Bernard will continue to be on the rostrum at all Goffs sales whilst also becoming a full-time auctioneer at the Goffs UK's sales in Doncaster, Aintree and Yorton,” Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent commented. “His role will also see him join the Goffs inspection team and liaise with Goffs' agents to attract entries to the Group's sales across both codes.”

Condren added, “A key part of my role with Goffs will be Point-to-Point sales and I am looking forward to working closely with our agents Derek O'Connor, Michael Moore and Caroline Kenneally as we continue to grow our P2P and NH sales.”

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