THIS week’s Galway maiden hurdle winner Music Drive provided the perfect advertisement for the upcoming Goffs UK October HIT & Yearling Sale.

A year ago Music Drive topped this sale when fetching £90,000. Within a couple of months he was chasing home future Grade 1 performer Redemption Day in a Leopardstown bumper.

Music Drive then won a Naas bumper and finished a respectable eighth in the Grade 1 Champion Bumper at Cheltenham.

There are 156 horses in this year’s sale which takes place on Wednesday, October 19th.

The catalogue will offer 65 yearlings and 92 horses-in-training from trainers including Brian Ellison, Bryan Smart, Charlie Hills, Charlie & Mark Johnston, David Barron, David O’Meara, David Pipe, Ed Dunlop, John Hanlon, John Quinn, Jonjo O’Neill, Keith Dalgleish, Les Eyre, Margaret Mullins, Sir Michael Stoute, Neil Mulholland, Oliver Sherwood, Richard Fahey, Richard Hannon, Roger Varian, Tom Ellis, Tom Tate and Warren Greatrex.

Other high-profile graduates of this sale are Buzz and N’golo. Purchased by Highflyer in 2019 and moved to Nicky Henderson, Buzz has won five of his 10 starts since his sale with his victories including the Grade 2 Coral Hurdle at Ascot on his most recent start as well as a second placing in the Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle at the Grand National Festival.

N’golo who won the Grade 3 Swinton Handicap Hurdle on his most recent start and placed in both the Grade 1 Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse and the Grade 1 Champion Novice Hurdle at Punchestown.

Silver Streak, winner of the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle at Kempton in 2020, was bought for £25,000 at this sale in 2016.

Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said: “The sale is open to supplementary entries and, with Irish pointing now underway as of last weekend, we will likely catalogue further horses in the build-up to the sale and these will be added online to the Goffs UK website as they are entered.”