Goffs Arkle Sale Features Half-Brother To Tiger Roll

The catalogue for the Goffs Arkle Sale is now online. Set for June 9-10 for Part I and June 11 for Part II, the sale features 732 stores. A total of 10 Arkle graduates have won Grade 1 races this past season, four at Cheltenham, four at Punchestown, and one each at Aintree and Fairyhouse.

Lot 249, a Harzand half-brother to Grade 1 winner and Grand National hero Tiger Roll (Authorized), stars at the sale. Other lots of note include the half- or full-siblings to Grade 1 winners: lot 57, an Affinisea half-brother to Fiddlerontheroof (Stowaway); an Old Persian half-brother to Slade Steel (Telescope) (lot 128); lot 138, a Walk In The Park half-sister to Coney Island (Flemensfirth) and lot 153, a Walk In The Park half-brother to Tornado Flyer (Flemensfirth); El Fabiolo (Spanish Moon)'s Nirvana Du Berlais half-brother (lot 214); a Crystal Ocean half-brother to Idaho Sun (Idaho) (lot 286); a No Risk At All half-sister (lot 320) to Leader Sport (Nirvana Du Berlais); a Jukebox Jury half-brother to The Storyteller (Shantou) and Stellar Story (Shantou) (lot 327); and lot 440, a Way To Paris half-brother to Home By The Lee (Fame And Glory). Lot 456, an Affinisea gelding out of Grade 1 winner Skyace (Westerner) is offered, as is lot 463, a Crystal Ocean gelding out of Grade 1 scorer Augusta Kate (Yeats).

The sale will being at 10 a.m. each morning. All three-year-olds catalogued in Parts 1 and 2 are eligible for the €100,000 Goffs Defender Bumper at the 2027 Punchestown Festival where the winning vendor will also win a brand-new Defender. Two-year-olds catalogued will be eligible for the 2028 race.

Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby said, “Goffs Arkle has firmly established itself as the market-leading store sale in recent years, and the results this season have taken that to a new level.  Ten individual Grade 1 winners bought at the Arkle Sale – trained by 10 different trainers and owned by ten different owners – is an exceptional achievement and it is wonderful to see the results in the ring translating so emphatically to the racecourse.

“2026 marks 30 years of the Arkle Sale, and we are enormously proud of how it has grown and equally excited for what lies ahead. I am assured by our inspection team that, based on the calibre of future talent on offer in this catalogue, the best may be yet to come as our vendors have supported the sale with even more of their best.

“Buyers follow success and, after a record-breaking season, we look forward to welcoming everyone to Kildare Paddocks in just over a month's time. I would also like to thank our partners, Defender, who have supported the sale from the start and whose vendor incentives and buyer hospitality make a significant contribution to the unique atmosphere from start to finish – the “Arkle Sparkle” is unlike any other sale.”