TWO private sales resulted in Meabh Bolger and Brian Flynn selling the six-lot draft they consigned to this week’s Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale under their MBF Sporthorses banner and the five horses they had entered in partnership with Jason Higgins.

Among the 11 were the sale’s two top-priced fillies, both three-year-old Irish Sport Horses, MBF Tallow (Lot 66), who was sold to the USA’s Sara Beth Anton for €45,000, and MBF Qatara (Lot 30). The latter failed to reach her reserve on Wednesday evening when unsold at €31,000 but subsequently changed hands for €40,000 in a private transaction with another US event rider, Erin Strader.