Catalogue Full Of Quality Is Now Online For Goffs Sportsman’s Sale

All Lots offered are eligible for the €100,000 Goffs Sportsman’s Challenge race over 6 furlongs at Naas Racecourse in September 2023.

Some of the stand-out yearlings on offer include:

• Lot 549 – Filly by El Kabeir ex La Grande Elisa – Half-sister to Group 3 winner Star Of Emaraaty
• Lot 598 – Filly by Phoenix of Spain ex Middle Persia – Half-sister to Listed winner and Irish Derby 4^th Kilimanjaro
• Lot 599 – Filly by Caravaggio ex Midnight Oasis – Half-sister to Group 2 Prix Robert Papin winner Ventura Tormenta
• Lot 635 – Colt by Teofilo ex Novel Approach – Own-brother to 2022 Group 3 winner Boundless Ocean
• Lot 646 – Filly by Magna Grecia ex Palinodie – Second foal out of Group placed and Listed winning dam
• Lot 659 – Colt by Starspangledbanner ex Ponty Acclaim – Dam is a Group 3 winner
• Lot 701 – Colt by U S Navy Flag ex Rohain – Half-brother to a Group 3 placed and Listed winner
• Lot 714 – Filly by Oasis Dream ex Savida – Dam is an own-sister to Group 1 winner Creachadoir and half-sister to Champion Youmzain
• Lot 727 – Colt by Awtaad ex Shamanova – Dam is Group 2 placed and a Listed winner 
• Lot 741 – Filly by Sioux Nation ex Skylight – Half-sister to Group 3 placed Listed winning 2YO this season in Manhattan Jungle 
• Lot 743 – Colt by Belardo ex Snooze – Half-brother to Group 2 Queen Mary winner Quick Suzy
• Lot 762 – Colt by Blue Point ex Strathnaver – Dam is Group 1 placed and a Group 3 winner
• Lot 815 – Colt by Zoffany ex Wedding Dress – Half-brother to Sydneyarms Chelsea, a Group 3 winning 2YO at Deauville this week
• Lot 822 – Filly by Dark Angel ex Wing of The Rocks – Second foal out of a Stakes placed mare  
• Lot 851 – Colt by Invincible Army ex Angelic Light – First foal out of a Stakes winning mare
• Lot 876 – Colt by Blue Point ex Beneventa – Half-brother to Group 2 winner Bow Creek and out of a Group 3 winning dam
• Lot 877 – Colt by Tamayuz ex Bethrah – Dam is Irish 1000 Guineas winner
• Lot 970 – Filly by Sea The Moon ex Eleni – First foal out of a Listed winning mare
• Lot 982 – Colt by Calyx ex Euphrasia – Out of Group 1 placed and Group 3 winning dam
• Lot 999 – Colt by Profitable ex Found You – Dam is a half-sister to Teofilo
• Lot 1008 – Colt by Caravaggio ex Glenrowan Rose – Dam is Stakes placed
• Lot 1022 – Filly by Saxon Warrior ex Hazium – Half-sister to sire Coulsty

 
Goffs Sportsman’s graduates have enjoyed recent success in Ireland, the UK, Italy, France, Germany, the US and Australia, and have a superb strike rate in Scandinavia which was headed this year by the Swedish Derby winner.  A prolific source of two-year-old winners, among its Black Type juvenile graduates this year is Lady Hollywood who landed the Listed Marwell Stakes on her most recent start at Naas for Amo Racing.

Commenting on publication of the catalogue, Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said:

“Our inspection team has worked with Irish breeders to hand pick a quality collection of classy commercial yearlings and real two-year-old types for this year’s Sportsman’s Sale.  The Irish National Yearling Sales week comprising the Orby and Sportsman’s Sales is simply unmissable for buyers and offers a greater selection of quality at every level”.