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enticed to remain in contention for the four-year-old son of Balko, before finally conceding defeat when Malone offered €270,000. The gelding was purchased for the late Ann and Alan Potts. The sale topper was a €25,000 purchase at the Goffs Land Rover Sale. Another winner that week at Punchestown was the six-year-old Vinnie Roe mare Minutestomidnight who was sold by her trainer Jonathan Sweeney. Winner of her only point-to-point start, she won a Wexford bumper by a dozen lengths before following up in the Grade 3 Weatherbys General Stud Book EBF Mares Flat Race. She sold to owner David Dunsdon for €200,000, having been bought at the Goffs Land Rover Sale for just €5,500. Gold Cup-winning trainer Jessica Harrington secured the best of Colin Bowe’s four-horse draft, Not Many Left, for €150,000, in the process out-bidding her great friend Nicky Henderson. A winner of his maiden point-to-point a week before the sale, the four-year-old son of Oscar cost Bowe €32,000 at Goffs. Michael Buckley stood beside Nicky Henderson as he bid €140,000 to secure Burrows Edge, runner-up to the aforementioned Not Many Left at Largy the week before. He was sold by Warren Ewing and Barry Geraghty. The Robin Des Champs four-year-old The Butcher Said finished second for trainer Emmet Mullins at Punchestown two days before the sale and was snapped up for €135,000 privately by David Minton, the most expensive of his three purchases. The agent made a second six-figure purchase
FROM TOP: Vision Des Flos topped the sale. CENTRE: David Minton and Nicky Henderson. BOTTOM: Jessica and Kate Harrington
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TOP LEFT: Colin Tizzard and Tom Malone. TOP RIGHT: Robert Tyner and Harold Kirk. LEFT: Andrew Nolan, Henry Beeby and Nick Nugent
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when giving €100,000 for Colin Bowe’s Newtide, a four-year-old son of Getaway who was runner-up on his debut in a point-to-point. Another significant sale by Bowe’s Milestone Stables was Senor Lombardy, a four-year-old Milan gelding who won a 14-runner maiden point-topoint the Sunday before the sale at Ballysteen. This €34,000 store purchase last year became a €125,000 Tom Malone acquisition and has won a bumper and novice hurdle since. The first lot to six figures was Tom Keating’s Golden Lariat five-year-old Timber House. The point-topoint winner fell to a winning €100,000 bid from Peter Molony of Rathmore Stud. Roger Brookhouse paid the same amount for Liam Burke’s Net De Treve, and this four-year-old son of Network was runner-up in a point-to-point on his sole outing. He joined Tom George to continue his career. Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby summed up the evening’s business: “There is no doubt that this year’s catalogue was the measure of any, with over half the catalogue having produced their form within the last week. That led to a superb trade, a record number of six-figure transactions and huge gains in every statistic, headed by an impressive 88% clearance rate. “The original Festival sale has proved to be an outstanding success once again and clearly demonstrates that our Punchestown and Aintree Festival Sales are both credible sale venues for the best.”
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