Press release: catalogue full of quality is now online for Goffs Sportsman’s Sale

GOFFS

THE CATALOGUE for the 2022 Goffs Sportsman’s Sale is now available online and features 524 quality commercial yearlings from many of Ireland’s leading consignors.  The sale will take place on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 September and completes the Irish National Yearling Sales week at Kildare Paddocks as it immediately follows the two-day Orby Sale.  Selling will begin at 9.30am each day.

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

Sires with progeny in the catalogue include Acclamation, Aclaim, Australia, Blue Point, Camelot, Caravaggio, Churchill, Dark Angel, Exceed And Excel, Fastnet Rock, Galileo Gold, Gleneagles, Havana Grey, Invincible Spirit, Kessaar, Kodiac, Lope de Vega, Mehmas, New Bay, Night of Thunder, Oasis Dream, Saxon Warrior, Sea The Stars, Showcasing, Sioux Nation, Starspangledbanner, Tasleet, Teofilo, Zoffany, Zoustar and more.

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”.