TOP-PRICE FOUR-YEAR-OLDS

  • Trade Horses Ltd’s Unnamed, four-year-old gelding by Cruising With Diamonds (dam by Insatiable) €57,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold).
  • Monbeg Sport Horses’ Monbeg Can Do, four-year-old gelding by Sligo Candy Boy (dam by Colin Diamond) €50,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold).
  • Monbeg Sport Horses’ Monbeg Dunard Blue, four-year-old gelding by Zirocco Blue (dam by Monaco) €45,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold).
  • AT €57,000, the year’s top-priced lot has been featured earlier on this page, but coming close to realise €50,000 was Monbeg Sport Horses’ Monbeg Can Do, a gelding by Sligo Candy Boy out of Diamond Action by Colin Diamond. Another to change hands at the Go For Gold sale, the Michael McDonagh-bred gelding had won a DAFM Development class and was snapped up by British international rider Max Warburton, on behalf of his owner Karla Wheatcroft.