JUST half of the 18 lots offered at this week’s Goffs Online Summer Sale sold, and two-thirds of them were consigned by HH Aga Khan Studs. However, it was one of the other trio that led trade, Wood Ranger selling for €64,000.

The winning three-year-old son of Kodi Bear from Willie McCreery’s Rathbride Stables likes Naas, a track at which he won last year and again in June, carrying the colours of Noelle Walsh. He was sold to Qatari owner Hassan Abdul Malik.

The top lot in the draft from His Highness the Aga Khan was the first lot in the catalogue, the Lope De Vega three-year-old gelding Ebasari. He was bought by Willie Mullins for €47,000 and was placed on his most recent start at Roscommon, his fourth outing.

Mullins was buying into a family he knows well. The gelding’s third dam Ebadiyla, winner of the Group 1 Irish Oaks and Prix Royal Oak, is the dam of Mullins’ 2007 Grade 1 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Ebaziyan.

The Sadler’s Wells mare Ebadiyla is one of four Group 1 winners produced by her dam.

A total of 140 bids were made on the Goffs Online platform, and horses sold to buyers in Ireland, Qatar and the Czech Republic.

Commenting afterwards, Goffs group chief executive Henry Beeby said: “We are pleased with a satisfactory level of trade in our Online Summer Sale which proved once again that Goffs Online is a timely and successful platform for selling horses in training to an international audience at relatively low cost to the vendor.

“Goffs Online has turned over more than €10.5 million since its introduction in 2020 and is now a permanent fixture at Goffs, offering an additional avenue to the market place at all our sales both in person and virtual”.