GOFFS will host three busy days of sales next week, starting with a day of horses in training on Tuesday, and followed by two days of yearlings.
The best known graduate of the Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale in recent years has been Twilight Payment. The future Melbourne Cup winner was owned by Godolphin when he arrived at this sale in 2018 and was knocked down to Kerr & Co Ltd for €200,000.
Perhaps this year’s star will be Gustavus Weston, already the winner of a Group 2 race for trainer Joseph Murphy and a reliable sort in many of Ireland’s top sprints for the past three seasons.
There are also drafts from Aga Khan Studs, Ado McGuinness, Ballylinch Stud, Baroda Stud, Joseph O’Brien, Gavin Cromwell, Johnny Murtagh, Willie McCreery, Ross O’Sullivan, The Castlebridge Consignment, Fozzy Stack and Noel Meade.
Listowel winner Star Of Cashel and last Sunday’s Curragh handicap winner Coins Cross also catch the eye among the entries.
Nine horses were added to the Horses-In-Training catalogue this week. They include the Group 3-placed and five-time winner Strong Johnson from Beechcourt Stables, a pair of two-year old half-brothers to Group 3-winning and placed horses from The Castlebridge Consignment, and winning National Hunt prospects Appian Way and Ballinlough Gale.
Some 27 supplementary lots were added to the Autumn Yearling Sale last week. They include a number of yearlings eligible for next year’s valuable Goffs Million and Sportsman’s Challenge races.
Among the notable pedigrees are a half-sister to stakes winner Danehill Destiny, a colt from the family of Broome, and a half-sister to two-year-old listed winner Orlaith.
Yearlings by such sires as Acclamation, Advertise, Blue Point, Churchill, Kodiac, Sea The Moon, Sioux Nation, Ten Sovereigns and Waldgeist are among the supplementary entries, completing an impressive sire profile for the two-day sale that also features Aclaim, Bated Breath, Caravaggio, Cotai Glory, Dark Angel, Harry Angel, Inns Of Court, Invincible Army, Kessaar, Kodi Bear, Kuroshio, Le Havre, Magna Grecia, Mehmas, New Approach, New Bay, Sea The Stars, Zelzal and Zoustar.
Subsequent Group 1 winner Laws Of Indices was purchased for just €8,000 at this sale. Last season’s Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner Quick Suzy was a €20,000 Autumn Yearling buy, while Prince Of Pillo, a stakes-winning two-year-old this season, cost just €10,000 as a yearling here.
Just last Sunday at San Siro, Vero Atleta (€28,000 purchase) paid testament to the quality of the commercial yearlings on offer at the Autumn Yearling Sale when the two-year-old son of Gleneagles followed up his recent listed race win with Group 2 glory in the Premio Gran Criterium.
Catalogue highlights:
Lot 64: The Vik, maiden winner over a mile at Killarney.
Lot 80: Prophets Voice, maiden winner over seven furlongs at Listowel.
Lot 83: Gustavus Weston, Group 2 Greenland Stakes winner last season and twice Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes winner.
Lot 85: Ruler Legend, maiden winner over a mile at Naas. Rated 91.
Lot 86: Realistic Optimism, bumper winner by 10 lengths and runner-up in a winners’ bumper on most recent start.
Lot 87: Beautiful Chaos, maiden winner over 11 furlongs at Killarney on most her recent start.
Lot 89: Black Hawk Eagle, maiden hurdle winner last month.
Lot 95: Make A Challenge, multiple listed race winner and Group 2-placed sprinter.
Lot 98: Shajak, Tipperary maiden winner over 12 furlongs, offered by the Aga Khan Studs.
Lot 106: Twice, an unraced sister to group race performers Dream Eater, Dreamspeed and Gulf Of Naples.
Lot 121: Coins Cross, winner of a Curragh handicap last Sunday.
Lot 140: Strong Johnson, winner of five sprints and placed at Group 3 level.
Lot 436: Study Of Man yearling half-brother to recent Chelmsford debut winner Spring Day.
Lot 760: Yearling Mastercraftsman half-sister to stakes winner Danehill Destiny.
Lot 761: Yearling Acclamation colt from the family of Broome.
Lot 771: Churchill half-sister to two-year-old listed winner Orlaith.
Sale Info
Sale: Goffs Autumn HIT & Yearling Sale at Kill
Dates: Tuesday, November 1st to Thursday, November 3rd (noon start on Tues, 10am start Wed-Thur).
Lots: 144 (HIT) and 571 (yearlings)
Tel: 045-886600
Email: winners@goffs.ie
Web: goffs.ie