point-to-pointers

The inaugural November P2P Sale, scheduled for Nov. 6, was announced by Goffs on Monday. The sale will offer Irish and UK pointers, as well as bumper horses and young horses with form at either Kildare Paddocks in Ireland or the Doncaster Sales Complex in the UK, depending on COVID-19 restrictions. "With the latter part of 2019-20 point-to-point season cancelled, as well as our highly successful Aintree and Punchestown Sales, we have been working to find a solution to get our P2P sales back up and running," said Goffs Group...

The one-day Tattersalls Ascot March Sale, which catalogued 190 head of Flat and National Hunt horses-in-training and point-to-pointers, is slated for Mar. 19. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. local time. Godolphin consigns nine lots, including the winning Dubawi (Ire) gelding Racing Country (Ire) as lot 90. This is the extended family of Australian Group 1 winner Gathering (Aus) (Tale of the Cat). In 2019, 129 lots sold for a gross of £936,300 with an average of £7,258 and a media of £3,500. The top price was for the gelding...

Five-year-old gelding Keskonrisk (Fr) (No Risk At All {Fr}) (lot 236) brought a sale-topping price of £370,000 from Henrietta Knight during the second and final session of the Goffs UK January Sale. Wednesday's session played host to point-to-pointers and form horses, and the Camas Park Stud-consigned half-brother to the Grade 2 winner Grand Sancy (Fr) (Diamond Boy {Fr}) won a debut bumper at Fairyhouse on New Year's Day. A handful of general horses-in-training also went through the ring, with Royal Ascot winner The Grand Visir (GB) (Frankel {GB}) (lot 288)...