NEWS
Giant’s Causeway filly tops first session of Goffs Orby sale
Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:30 PM
by Pete Denk
A Giant’s Causeway filly sold for $691,077 (475,000 euros) to top the first day of the Goffs Orby sale on Tuesday in Ireland.
Consigned by Cahermorris Stables, the filly is the second foal out of 2005 Boylesports Irish One Thousand Guineas (Ire-G1) winner Saoire (GB). Hugo Merry Bloodstock, agent, purchased the filly.
Goffs reported 157 horses sold from 192 offered for total sales of $16,223,600 (11,151,000 euros). Average price was $103,334 (71,025 euros), and median was $72,745 (50,000 euros).
Comparative prices were not available because of the sale’s format change. The three-day Orby sale replaces the former Goffs Million sale.
New Jersey-based bloodstock agent Buzz Chace and West Point Thoroughbreds President Terry Finley made their first trips to the Goffs sale and purchased two yearlings on Tuesday.
Chace, agent for West Point, bought a Holy Roman Emperor colt out of the Mr. Greeley mare Ting A Greeley for $203,686 (140,000 euros) and an Ad Valorem colt out of the Exit to Nowhere mare Queenliness for $72,745 (50,000 euros).
“They’re both nice individuals by freshman sires,” Chace said. “It’s a good sale. It’s a very lovely complex over here, and the horses are just like any sale in the United States. I saw some nice horses over here. I think with the change in the times in the U.S., these types of horses can be bought to run on turf or Polytrack.”
Chace, who bought two horses at the Keeneland September yearling sale for a total of $490,000, said he would attend Wednesday’s Orby session before returning to the states on Thursday in advance of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale next Monday and Tuesday.
John Magnier bought the second highest price of the day, a Montjeu (Ire) colt out of Welsh Love, by Ela-Mana-Mou, for $611,058 (420,000 euros). Kilcarn Stud bred and consigned the half brother to 1997 Grand Criterium (Fr-G1) winner Second Empire (Ire).
The three-day sale continues Wednesday.
Pete Denk is sales editor for Thoroughbred Times
