Goffs has determined to postpone the sale scheduled for Sept. 14 throughout the Irish Champions Pageant at Leopardstown on account of a scarcity of appropriate stabling on the racecourse. The corporate will now prioritize subsequent month’s Goffs British Champions Day Sale for any recruits.
Goffs group chief government Henry Beeby stated Sept. 5: “It grew to become obvious this morning that we’d be unable to make use of the racecourse stables to accommodate the sale horses as we’ve finished prior to now, regardless of working proactively with Leopardstown and the IHRB.
“That is largely because of the anticipated enhance in runners given the expanded race card and the variety of very welcome abroad runners. Naturally we’re disenchanted, nonetheless, as the one possibility can be to construct short-term stables for the sale, we really feel this isn’t acceptable for the standard of horses we meant to supply.
“We are going to as a substitute redirect these horses appropriate to the Goffs British Champions Day Sale at Ascot Oct. 19. We hope to revisit the Champions Sale idea in 2025 with the good thing about this yr’s expertise and with extra time to plan for all eventualities.”
The inaugural Goffs British Champions Day Sale at Ascot in 2023 noticed high-class sprinter Rogue Lightning promote for £1,000,000 to Richard Brown on behalf of Wathnan Racing and the sale will return to the Ascot parade ring once more earlier than racing.
