Goffs Arkle Sale

Geldings by Joshua Tree (Ire) (lot 463) and Poet's Word (Ire) (lot 535) shared topper honours when selling for €45,000 to lead the way during Part 2 of the Goffs Arkle Sale on Thursday. Consigned by Liss House, lot 463 was purchased by Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins. His dam, Tropical Lilly (Ire) (Saddler's Hall {Ire}) is responsible for Grade 3 chase winner Embittered (Ire) (Fame And Glory {GB}), who was also placed in the G1 Future Champions Novice Hurdle. He was a €5,000 Goffs December National Hunt Sale graduate...

A pair of geldings by No Risk At All (Fr) and Doctor Dino (Fr) were joint toppers at €160,000 during Tuesday's Goffs Arkle Sale Part 1. The former (lot 138), consigned by Liss House, was purchased by Ian Ferguson and is from the family of Grade 2 winner Violin Davis (Fr) (Turgeon). Lot 222, part of the Sluggara Farm draft, went to Gordon Elliott Racing and is a half-brother to listed winner Syrita (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). Four other stores made €150,000 or higher, with lot 91, a gelding by Tunis...

A 701-lot catalogue for the Goffs Arkle Sale, held in partnership with Defender, was released by the sales company on Wednesday. Set for June 11-13 beginning at 10 a.m. each day, the sale encompasses a two-day Part 1, featuring 452 elite stores, and another 249 quality prospects are set for Part 2 on June 13. All horses catalogued in Parts 1 and 2 are eligible for the €100,000 Goffs Defender Bumper at the 2025 Punchestown Festival. Sires represented include Authorized (Ire), Blue Bresil (Fr), Crystal Ocean (GB), Doctor Dino (Fr),...

Goffs chief executive Henry Beeby has said that Part 2 of the Goffs Arkle Sale lived up to its billing after turnover climbed 7% on last year to €3,333,500. The average also climbed 10% to €19,725 with the median up 6% to €17,000 while the clearance rate dropped 3% to 79% with 169 of the 215 lots offered finding new homes.  Beeby said, "Our record-breaking Part 1 of the Arkle Sale could have been a hard act to follow but today's Part 2 has very much kept up the momentum...

It was the French sires who dominated on day two of the Goffs Arkle Sale with Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk going to €250,000 to secure a Galiway (GB) gelding [King Rasko Grey (Fr)] from Treannahow Stables. That was followed by a Doctor Dino (Fr) gelding that was snapped up by Gordon Elliott for €185,000 from Altenbach Bloodstock and a Jeu St Eloi (Fr) gelding to Paul Nicholls and Tom Malone for €175,000.  Galiway, the sire of dual Group 1 winner Sealiway (Fr), has made huge strides as a National...

Trainer Paul Nicholls and bloodstock agent Tom Malone flexed their muscles at the newly-branded Goffs Arkle Sale on Tuesday by signing for three lots to the tune of €410,000, including the €160,000 day one topper, a Beaumec De Houelle (Fr) gelding already named Zamek (Fr) consigned by Mark Dwyer's Oaks Farm Stables. That was the highest average posted by any buyer on day one, however, it was the point-to-point outfit Monbeg Stables who posted the highest aggregate spend by signing for 15 lots to the tune of €784,000. Of the...

The Goffs Arkle Sale catalogue, which is now available online, drew 469 lots for Part 1, which will be held on June 13-14, and 238 lots for Part 2, set for June 15. Formerly the Land Rover Sale, the flagship National Hunt sale for Goffs has been renamed this year in honour of Goffs' most famous graduate, Arkle, and is held in partnership with Defender. "Buyers can expect something very special at Goffs Arkle Sale next month," Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said. "Our expansion of Part 1 to...