Good Guess in demand at Goffs Premier

Many thanks to everyone who supported us at the Goffs Premier Sale in Doncaster this week. We were delighted to end the sale as leading vendor because it's long been an important event for us and we hope that there will many more good horses coming out of our draft this time around!

It was great to see the first yearlings by Good Guess so well received. Particularly encouraging was the fact they've gone into good hands, namely Sebastien Desmontils' Chauvigny Global Equine (who bought Good Guess as a yearling on behalf of Hisaaki Saito), Paddy Twomey, Richard Hughes and Ted Durcan, Peter and Ross Doyle with Middleham Park Racing, Nick Bell, Valfredo Valiani, Richard Knight with Sean Quinn (x2), JB Bloodstock, Rabbah Bloodstock, Oliver St Lawrence, Tim Easterby, Ed Sackville with Hugo Palmer, Alfa Site Services, Ivan Furtado, Jack Channon with Armando Duarte, Steven Hillen with Kevin Ryan, Dan Astbury with James Owen, Bryan Smart and Marco Bozzi.

In all, 21 yearlings by Good Guess sold for an average of £50,524. Nine made in excess of £50,000 led by a pair of £100,000 youngsters - a filly out of the Caravaggio mare Call Early bred and sold by the Hassett family's Monksland Stakes (pictured below) who was bought by Paddy Twomey and our colt out of the Dark Angel mare First Smile who was bought by Ted Durcan with Richard Hughes.

Peter and Ross Doyle also teamed up with Middleham Park Racing to buy a filly out of Newtown Pippin for £90,000 from Baroda Stud.

Mehmas also hit the headlines courtesy of a pair of £150,000 colts; Ed Sackville and Manor House Stables came away with our colt out of the Listed-winning Mastercraftsman mare Guilded (pictured below) while Peter Fahey landed the half-brother to Saudi Derby winner Al Haram from Weylands Stud on behalf of Abdullah Al-Sabah.

Overall, Mehmas returned an average of £72,112 for nine sold.

Kodiac was well represented by our filly out of Stunner, who joins Adrian Keatley following her sale for £110,000 to Dan Astbury, while the Starman yearlings ended up in good hands; Ed Sackville and Manor House Stables were particularly enthusiastic supporters as the purchasers of two colts by the leading young sire.

Europe's leading first-crop sire Persian Force also rewarded his supporters, with progeny selling to the likes of Clive Cox, Karl Burke and Ben Haslam.