Goffs wrapped up their Orby Sale
Thursday with a low-profile third
session, after which the figures
remained largely similar to 2009.
While the overall average of €47,800
was down by 4 percent, the
€29,000 median was up by the same
and the Sales Company’s Chief
Executive Henry Beeby said, “The
general feeling over the last few days
has been one of real positivity with
Kildare Paddocks welcoming every
targeted buyer to this year’s Orby
Sale. Indeed, we have received
countless compliments about our
marketing of the Sale, although a lot
of that is down to the superb
racetrack results of Goffs graduates
over the last 18 months.
“Those
results flow from the excellent
yearlings we have selected with our vendors each year and the pay back is that
those Irish
breeders who have supported us with their best stock have been well rewarded in
the sales
ring. On the facts there is no denying that the market has been selective, but
there have been
plenty of success stories and happy breeders/pinhookers, especially on Days 1
and 2. That
has been endorsed by the general consensus that the good ones have been as hard
to buy as
ever and we are grateful to the vendors who have stepped up to the mark with us.
This year’s
Sale has been a consolidation of our Focus is the Horse policy that we
introduced last year
with a smaller catalogue that placed the emphasis well and truly on the
individual. That policy
has certainly met with the approval of the buying bench which has been as strong
as ever at
any sale.
“The statistics may well show a slight fall in turnover and average,” Beeby
added, “but there are so
many positives from the 2010 Orby Sale — a top price that was double last year’s,
two lots
realizing over €500,000 compared to none last year, a 3.6 per-cent rise in the
median price,
some significant new buyers who have vowed to return having been very impressed
with all
aspects of the Sale and a really positive atmosphere from start to finish.”
Dubawi dominate much of Thursday’s
lower-key proceedings and the sire of
Makfi and Poet’s Voice
supplied the top-priced colt and filly.
Hip 601, from Ballybin Stud, is a
May-foaled half-brother to the 2002 German One Thousand Guineas (Ger-G2) winner
Portella (Protektor) and her listed-placed brother Predator
who was snapped up by John
Ferguson for €80,000.
Darley’s Mick
Buckley, who bid for the colt, said,
“He’s a May foal, but we’ve seen him
a few times and he’s progressing and
maturing all the time. He’s bred along
similar lines to Poet’s Voice, as he’s a
son of Dubawi from a Danzig-line
mare.”
Stamina Turf Sl purchased the top-priced filly for
€56,000. Offered by John Jones and Kildangan
Stud. Hip 515 is out of an unraced half to the
2002 Prix Maurice de Gheest (Fr-G1)
winner May Ball (Cadeaux
Genereux) and Godolphin’s listed-winning Rampallion
(Daylami).
Of the first-crop sires represented Thursday, Dylan Thomas (Ire) proved the
star turn when
his Hip 641 sold to Peter Doyle Bloodstock for €45,000. From Barnane Stud, she is
a
half-sister to a Scandinavian champion in Xstase (Trempolino).
Full results can be
found on www.goffs.com.