Sales action returns to Goffs with the Autumn Yearling and HIT Sale

The sales action will return to Goffs on Monday and Tuesday with the Autumn Yearling and Horses in Training Sale.

The first session will be made up entirely of yearlings, while the second session will be split between the remaining yearlings and a horses in training session, with selling getting under way at 10am each day.

Last year's auction was topped by the €200,000 Twilight Payment, who was described in the catalogue as a dual Listed-winning son of Teofilo.

Offered by Jim Bolger's Glebe House Stables on behalf of Godolphin, the gelding remained with the trainer after being signed for by Bert Kerr and has since struck in the Listed Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown and the Group 2 Curragh Cup, before finishing a respectable seventh in the Irish St Leger on his most recent start.

Bolger's sole offering this year is (lot 163), a three-year-old daughter of Vocalised who won for the second time in a mile handicap at Naas in July.

Another sale graduate to improve markedly since changing hands last November is Just Sherry, an Intense Focus filly who caught the eye of French trainer Edouard Monfort at €10,500.

Just Sherry was trained in the earlier part of her career by John James Feane, for whom she won a mile handicap at Ayr, and has since added another five wins to her name in France.

She has returned to the winner's enclosure on her last four starts, including a pair of Listed wins at Craon and Lyon Parilly, which has seen her accumulate more than €120,000 in prize-money in France.

Johnny Murtagh's Fox Covert Stables will send a number of recent winners into the sales ring, led by (482), a two-year-old Elzaam filly who won a valuable sales race at the Curragh on her most recent start.

Her victory was the first leg of a double on the day for Murtagh and Fitzwilliam Racing, with the Alhebayeb colt (481) winning a nursery handicap on the same card.

Another recent winner from the Fox Covert draft is (480), a gelded son of Anjaal who won a Navan nursery this month.

Others to have returned to the winner's enclosure this month are the Ger Lyons-trained Brazen Beau gelding (484), who won a brace of nurseries at Dundalk, and the Sheila Lavery-trained (518), a three-year-old son of Roderic O'Connor who opened his account at the Curragh.

The priciest yearling offered at last year's sale was Shanaville Stables' Australia colt, who went the way of Margaret O'Toole at €52,000.

Bred by Prospect Stables, the youngster shares his damsire with this year's star juvenile Pinatubo being out of the Dalakhani mare That's My Style, a winning half-sister to the Group 3 Prix Chloe winner Sparkling Beam and daughter of Moyglare Stud Stakes third Pearl Dance.

Buyers hoping to tap into similar bloodlines this year will be given the opportunity with Sweep Lane Stud the vendor of an April-foaled Estidhkaar filly (181) out of Can Dance, a Manduro half-sister to That's My Style.

Others to catch the eye based on pedigree are Rossenarra Stud's Dark Angel full-sister to the Group 3-winning sprinter and sire Heeraat, a March foal offered as lot 82, and Parkway Farm's Kodi Bear half-brother to the Group 2-winning juvenile Irish Field, an April foal consigned as lot 92.

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