Mehmas colt heads Goffs Feb at €220,000

Progeny of Starman and Mehmas were the stars of the show during the opening session of the Goffs February Sale on Wednesday.

A Mehmas colt bred by Carol Henley and Hanshen Tham’s Pattern Bloodstock out of the stakes-placed Russian River, by Dandy Man, led the way when sold to us for €220,000. He was offered by Clare Manning’s Boherguy Stud.

“We thought he was a very nice colt and the pedigree is nice also,” Hanshen Tham told the TDN. “The foal sales at Goffs were so strong, we decided to Come here in a bid to stand out and thankfully it worked out. It's great doing business with Tally-Ho Stud and they really support

breeders at the sales so a massive thanks must go to them. I really hope he is lucky for them. Clare deserves a lot of credit as well because she foals all of our mares and does a great job.”

Also popular was a Starman filly who provided a great result for breeder Colm O’Brien when selling for €120,000 to Kevin Blake. She is out of the Pivotal mare Mawu.

"We're absolutely over the moon,” Colm O’Brien told the TDN. “She is a special filly and the stars aligned with Starman. It's a real thrill for us to have her down here and everyone to like her. That's what every small breeder strives to produce - a horse that is well-respected by the market. She showed herself so well and we got a massive kick about the fact that, every time we came down to see her, somebody else had pulled her out of the box. It was some feeling."

Her sale came on the same day that Starman fired in yet another first-crop winner in Star Strewn, successful for Ado McGuinness at Dundalk.