Autumn Yearling Sale

Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud supplied the Day 1 session-topper of the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale on Wednesday in the shape of a Dawn Approach (Ire) colt who was knocked down to Alex Elliott for €80,000. Lot 458 is a brother to the Group 3-placed Strapped (Ire) and was not the only big result Manning enjoyed on the day. Another son of the 2000 Guineas winner, lot 441, made €50,000 to BBA Ireland while Boherguy Stud would have collected a clean sweep had the Castlebridge Consignment not sold its Sea The...

One of the main attractions of the Goffs Autumn Horses In Training Sale on Tuesday is Gustavus Weston (Ire) (Equiano {Fr}), the four-time winner whose career highlight came when he landed the G2 Greenlands S. at the Curragh last year.  On that occasion, Joe Murphy's charge was chased home by Make A Challenge (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a 10-time winner for Denis Hogan, who is also in the sale.  Hogan said of his eight-strong draft, "We've a nice draft of horses going to Goffs. We'll be sorry to see some...