Just hours after he saddled Teahupoo to win the feature race at Punchestown on Thursday, trainer Gordon Elliott spent €870,000 on three new recruits at the Goffs Punchestown Sale.
Elliott's haul did not include the evening's top lot, a point-to-point winner named Swing Davis, but it's possible that Elliott could also be sent that mare to train as she was bought for €320,000 by bloodstock agent Mags O'Toole who was standing with Teahupoo's owner Brian Acheson at the time.
Trained in Wexford by Denis Murphy, Swing Davis (by No Risk At All) won at Loughanmore last Saturday and was bought by Murphy for €57,000 at the Derby Sale last June.
Elliott and agent Aidan O'Ryan were forced to go to €310,000 to buy Familiar Dreams, winner of a Grade 3 bumper at Punchestown on Wednesday evening for trainer Anthony McCann.
Fetching the same price was Ciaran Fennessy's recent Dromahane winner Ma Jacks Hill. The son of Famous Name cost Fennessy just €13,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland May Sale last year and now joins the Elliott stable.
Koktail Brut, a four-year-old gelding by Cokoriko, will also be trained by Elliott, having been acquired from Northern Ireland handler Paddy Turley for €250,000. The horse won at Castletown-Geoghegan last month.
The select sale saw 18 of the 22 horses offered sell for a total of €2.878 million. The average price was €159,889 and the median was €140,000.
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