Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase

The Goffs UK Doncaster January Sale, which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 29, has been cancelled. The event will instead be merged with the British NH Breeders Showcase, with an enlarged sale to be held on a new date of Thursday, December 3. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said, "The January Sale was the UK's only dedicated NH foal sale up to 2022 when, following feedback from UK breeders, we introduced a second sale in 2023, the British NH Breeders Showcase, to allow clients an earlier...

La Renommee (Doctor Dino) (lot 72) topped the third edition of the Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase at Doncaster on Friday. Sold for £70,000 to Coolmara Stables, she was offered by Linacres Farm. The seven-time winner won the Listed Yorkshire Silver Vase Mares' Chase in 2024 and was carrying to Logician. The highest-priced foal was a filly by Nathaniel (lot 50) from Goldford Stud. A daughter of the listed winner and Grade 2-placed mare One Gulp (Hernando), she made £60,000 on the bid of Jerry McGrath. She is a half-sister...

Goffs has catalogued 75 lots for its upcoming British NH Breeders Showcase, which takes place Friday, Oct. 31. In its third year, the sale will offer 65 NH foals in addition to 10 breeding stock lots, several of which at offered in foal to NH sires. The sale will feature foals by Bathyrhon, Capri, Choeur du Nord, Cracksman, Frontiersman, Jack Hobbs, Jeu St Eloi, Logician, Moises Has, Order of St George, Poet's Word, Postponed, Stradivarius, Subjectivist and Yeats. The breeding stock segment of the sale will follow the foal session....

A colt foal by Walk In The Park (Ire) (lot 7) and a Nathaniel (Ire) filly (lot 38) each brought a sale-topping price of £70,000 during Friday's Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase. The former, consigned by Swanbridge Bloodstock, Ltd., was sold to Gerry Aherne and is a grandson of Grade 1 hurdle winner Quevega (Fr) (Robin Des Champs {Fr}). His dam is a half-sister to Weatherbys Champion Bumper hero Facile Vega (Ire) (Walk In The Park {Ire}). Aherne, a key member of the Coolmore team, said, "He's a beautiful horse...

The judges for the Goffs British NH Breeders foal show have been confirmed, Goffs announced on Friday. The panel will consist of Highflyer Bloodstock's Tessa Greatrex, Luke Cummins of Rathurtin Stud and Spincourt Bloodstock's Antonin Pelsy. The foal show will be held the day prior to the Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase Sale on Thursday, Oct. 31. The foal show will once again honour two much missed figures of the British breeding world with the colts' class commemorating Richard Aston of Goldford Stud and the fillies' class Robert Chugg of...

A total of 90 lots will be offered at the Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase which takes place at Doncaster on Friday, November 1. The full catalogue can be viewed here, comprising seventy-seven foals, seven yearlings and six breeding stock. As part of the Breeders Showcase, the sale will once again be preceded by a Foal Show which will honour two much missed figures of the British breeding world. The colts' class commemorates Richard Aston from Goldford Stud and the fillies' class Robert Chugg of Little Lodge Farm. Goffs are...

A colt by Blue Bresil (Fr) brought a sale-topping £90,000 from Richard Frisby during the first edition of the Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase on Friday. It is a new record for a National Hunt foal sold at public auction. Consigned by Mill House Stud as lot 42, the bay is out of Scorpio Queen (Ire) (Scorpion {Ire}), a half-sister to two-time G1 Leinster National H. Chase winner Pairofbrowneyes (Ire) (Luso {GB}). "I never thought he'd make that much," said Mill House's Juliet Minton. "He had a £40,000 reserve, and...

A son of Jack Hobbs (GB) (lot 21) and a daughter of Nathaniel (Ire) (lot 59) won their respective divisions of the Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase on Thursday. The former was shown by Little Lodge Stud in the Richard Aston Colts' Class, and his connections earned £3,000. Goldford Stud's Nathaniel filly won a like amount after taking her division, the Robert Chugg Fillies' Class. Both foals, alongside 66 others participated in the inaugural edition of the show. The first edition of the Goffs British NH Breeders' Showcase Sale will...

A total of 100 foals have been catalogued for the first edition of the Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase at Doncaster on Friday, Nov. 3. The two-day format of the showcase will see a foal show beginning at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2, with the sale held at noon on the following day. The foal show will offer a generous total prize pool of £10,000 which will be shared among the top three colts and fillies in each class. The late Richard Aston of Goldford Stud will be honoured...