FOUR days after landing the Naas October Handicap Rocky Bleier emerged as the star turn of this year’s Goffs Open Yearling and Horses In Training Sale when coming to Gerry Hogan, who was acting on behalf of Barry Connell, for €150,000.

The corresponding sale last year produced a top price of €225,000 which meant that horses in training section couldn’t quite match 2013 in several areas. However this part of the sale still returned a good level of trade for what was on offer and the clearance rate came in 95%.