Peter Nolan and Noel Meade are out on their own as the leading buyers at the Autumn Yearling Sale with their €167,000 spend headed by a Coulsty colt that the trainer labelled “as nice a horse as we've seen at Goffs all week.”
The Coulsty colt is the most expensive horse to sell at Autumn Yearling Sale – which comes to a close on Wednesday – thus far. He cost €60,000 and was consigned by Rathasker Stud. All told, the County Meath-based handler has added 10 yearlings to his team for next year at Kildare Paddocks this week.
Meade said, “The nice horses are making plenty of money. We have an existing client for the Coulsty and he's probably as nice a horse as we've seen at Goffs all week. He's a gorgeous-looking horse and looks like he will make up into a two-year-old. We've had a bit of lucky with Coulsty over the past few years so we were happy enough to take a chance on this lad.”
He added, “We found the yearling sales very expensive this year. We bought six or seven at the Orby but only managed to buy one at Tattersalls Ireland, which would be unusual for us. But we've bought 10 this week so we're not going too bad now.”
Of the 243 horses offered on Tuesday, 195 were sold for a turnover of €1,961,500. The average was €10,059 while the median was €6,000.
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