PREDICTIONS that the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale would attract some top-class late entries due to the presence of the Niarchos family draft appear to have proven accurate.

Group race winners Insinuendo and Matilda Picotte were added to the catalogue this week.

The sale takes place on Friday and Saturday, November 24th and 25th, immediately after the November Foal Sale. Buyers from around the world are expected to be present for the sale which is headed by the Niarchos draft of 43 regally-bred mares. They includes classic winner Alpha Centauri in foal to Sea The Stars and Group 1 Coronation Stakes winner Alpine Star in foal to Frankel.

The catalogue will be published next Tuesday.

Insinuendo, a six-year-old daughter of Gleneagles out of the Group 3 winning Danehill Dancer mare Obama Rule, will be consigned under Rathbride Stables by her trainer Willie McCreery, who purchased her at the 2018 Goffs Orby Sale from breeders Mountarmstrong Stud for €110,000.

Owned by the Deegan Racing Syndicate, Insinuendo’s most recent win was in the Group 3 Park Express Stakes at the Curragh in March 2023, a race in which she finished second to 1000 Guineas winner Mother Earth a year prior.

Her race record also includes a win in the Group 2 Kilboy Estate Stakes at the Curragh in 2021 and the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes at Naas in the same season, while she has also been placed against some classy competition in five other group races. She was a neck second to multiple Group 1 winner Luxembourg in last year’s Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh, while she ran a cracker to finish third behind Emily Upjohn in the 2022 Group 1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot.

The three-year-old Matilda Picotte has been a star for trainer Kieran Cotter and her syndicate of owners this year. A listed race winner and Group 2 placed as a juvenile, the Sioux Nation filly finished third in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in May despite not staying the trip. She was again outstayed when second over seven and a half furlongs in a Group 3 race at Tipperary on very soft ground last month, before winning a similar race impressively over seven furlongs at Doncaster the same month.

Just yesterday at Newmarket Matilda Picotte won the Group 2 Challenge Stakes by almost three lengths.

There was an exciting update last weekend for one of the jewels of the catalogue with the victory of Fev Rover in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine. Her dam Laurelita, who is in foal to Starspangledbanner, will be offered for sale by Manister House Stud.

The 12-year-old daughter of High Chaparral is now the dam of a dual Grade 1 winner as Fev Rover’s Woodbine success for Mark Casse and Tracy Fisher follows her top level breakthrough in the Beverly D Stakes. Bred by Manister House Stud, the five-year-old’s six wins have all been at stakes level.

Trained initially by Richard Fahey, she was third in the 1000 Guineas and has also been third in the Grade 1 Diana Stakes and last season’s Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes. A Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale graduate, she won the Group 2 Prix du Calvados as a juvenile.