THURSDAY’S Goffs UK Autumn Horses In Training Sale was boosted significantly by the sale of the winning Irish point-to-pointer Do Your Job for £150,000. Six of the top seven lots at the sale came from the supplementary catalogue.

Do Your Job is a five-year-old son of Fame And Glory who won by five lengths on his debut for Colin Bowe at Castletown-Geoghegan earlier this month and sold to owner Mark Dunphy and Goffs UK horses in training agent Derek O’Connor. “We are delighted to have purchased him, he was the standout lot today and is to go into training with Claire Dyson,” commented O’Connor. “He’s an athletic type and Colin has produced some cracking horses such as Samcro and Malone Road, so hopefully he can follow in their footsteps.”

The well-named Do Your Job was purchased as a three-year-old from the dispersal of the late Graham Roach in 2017 by Bowe and Denis Murphy for £28,000.

Bowe also sold another Castletown-Geoghegan winner to Rebecca Curtis for £40,000. In fact the five-year-old landed a maiden at the venue last October and a year later added a winners’ of two. These are the only starts to date for the son of Winged Love.

Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock paid £80,000 to secure the first of the supplementary lots, the listed-placed, four-time winner Buzz. The five-year-old son of Motivator has not won for 13 months but has shown good form in recent months for Hughie Morrison and will now join Nicky Henderson. While initial plans for the gelding are to go hurdling, he could mix it on the flat in the future for new owners Thurloe Thoroughbreds.

Ed Stapleton and Chris Gordon secured the four-year-old Doyen gelding Press Your Luck for £40,000 from Donnchadh Doyle’s Monbeg Stables. A faller on both his outings earlier in the year, the relation to Grade 1 winning chaser Topofthegame opened his account last weekend at Portrush and connections struck while the iron was hot and entered him for sale.

Cantillon syndicate

Having purchased recent Munster National winner Cabaret Queen earlier this year, Jack Cantillon, through agent Gerry Hogan, paid £38,000 on behalf of Syndicates Racing to acquire Listen Dear, owned by Supreme Horse Racing Club, and the nine-year-old mare will return to be trained by Willie Mullins at Closutton Stables. A Grade 3 winner over hurdles and fences, Cantillon described the purchase as a “no-brainer”. The daughter of Robin Des Champs has great broodmare appeal also.

Runner-up at Tinahely last weekend, and placed also in the spring, the four-year-old Shirocco gelding Minella Wizard was another on the shopping list of Highflyer Bloodstock’s Anthony Bromley. His dam is an own-sister to the smart Colonel Yeager and he cost the agent £30,000.

While a reduced catalogue and some high-profile withdrawals affected the final figures, Goffs UK managing director Tony Williams was largely pleased with the day’s trade. He said: “Today’s sale demonstrated once again the strength at the top of the market with Buzz and Do Your Job selling well – the later matching last year’s top price of £150,000.

“This sale has produced some outstanding racehorses such as the triple Grade 1 winner Supasundae and we wish our buyers, who have travelled from throughout Europe and the Middle East, the very best of luck with their purchases.”