WHAT was the best €1,000 spent as a bloodstock sale in 2016? There may be a few contenders for the award, but one very obvious candidate has to be David Stack of Coolagown Stud’s bid that secured Northern Mischief from the Tinnakill House Stud draft at the Goffs November Sale.

Stack was buying for his South African client Joli Racing and Northern Mischief was catalogued as a Grade 1-placed dam of a single winner, but barren to her 2016 covering by Dandy Man. Her then yearling filly by Shamardal sold for €65,000 as a foal while her then two-year-old Nathaniel filly cost €95,000 as a foal.