SALES consignor Con Marnane sold his recent Group 3 winner Givemethebeatboys for £1.1 million at the Goffs London Sale on Monday evening.

The sale represented an incredible return on the €11,000 Marnane’s daughter Amy paid to buy the horse at the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale last November.

The new owners of the horse are American father and son Con and Neil Sands, who are property developers and race under the Bronsan Racing banner. They have a significant number of horses, both flat and jumps, in training with Joseph O’Brien.

Jessica Harrington trained the son of Bungle Inthejungle for Marnane and his wife Theresa, and the colt went on to finish a good fourth in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday. It later emerged that Marnane has retained a 25% share in the horse.

Over 20 Royal Ascot prospects were offered for sale on Monday evening and they included another unbeaten two-year-old, No Nay Mets, who was sold for £800,000 to Liam Culman of Tuckernuck Stables. Trained in the US by George Weaver, the No Nay Never colt won on his debut at Gulfstream Park but could only finish ninth for his new owners in the Norfolk Stakes on Thursday.

Two Irish-trained horses fetched £300,000 each. The four-year-old Nusret, a talented dual purpose four-year-old for owners Isaac Souede and Simon Munir, was sold for that sum to Jayne McGivern of Dash Grange Stud. Also making £300,000 was Jim Bolger’s Cuban Dawn, a three-year-old maiden, who was bought by an Australian consortium headed by trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. The same consortium, which includes bloodstock agent Johnny McKeever, also swooped for Roger Varian’s dual winner New Endeavour for £260,000. Both Cuban Dawn and New Endeavour raced in the Teme Valley colours this year.

New Endeavour went on to run a blinder in the Britannia Handicap on Thursday, just caught on the line by Docklands.

The Tim Donworth-trained Ocean Vision, a recent listed winner at Longchamp with a Jersey Stakes entry, sold for £250,000 to Kentucky Derby-winning owner Ramiro Restrepo’s Marquee Bloodstock.

The sale opened with breeding rights to Havana Grey and Soldier’s Call being offered. China Horse Club paid £205,000 for the Havana Gold right (£18,500 fee in 2023) while the Soldier’s Call right went to Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock for £80,000 (€7,500 fee in 2023).

Of the 21 lots offered on the night, 11 sold for a total of £3.77 million.

Among the notable ‘not sold’ lots were the three-old French filly Sauterne (£1.2 million) and Paddy Twomey’s listed-winning filly Moon De Vega (£600,000). The two-year-old winner Supersonic Man, also trained by Jessica Harrington for Con Marnane, was unsold at £270,000.

Ado McGuinness had a pair of two-year-old winners engaged, Rush Queen and Tiger Belle, but both were unsold.

Immediately after the sale Goffs CEO Henry Beeby said: “For Goffs to be here in the grounds of Kensington Palace, welcoming so many friends and colleagues from international racing, is something we are very proud of.”