AMONG the many notable aspects of this week’s activity at Goffs has been the input of international purchasers and perhaps busiest of all was prominent Chinese owner Zhang Yuesheng.

The owner of Yulong racecourse in the Shangxi province in China, Yuesheng’s green and white colours have been a familiar sight on Irish racecourses in recent years.

Indeed, his representatives this season include Michael Halford’s listed-winning and Group 3-placed juvenile Yulong Baobei, who was picked up for just €13,000 as a yearling at the Goffs Open Sale last November.

Yuesheng, who first purchased yearlings at Goffs in 2012, made a notable impact at the Tattersalls July Sale earlier this year when buying a number of well-bred mares who were destined to head to the southern hemisphere. That carried through to the Orby Sale where the owner snapped up yearlings by Galileo, Raven’s Pass and More Than Ready as well a couple of members of the Wildenstein Dispersal.

All three of the Orby purchases will go into training in Ireland but a different direction beckons for the owner’s other purchases.

During Part I of the Sportsman’s Sale Yuesheng, acting through the BBA Ireland’s Michael Donohoe, picked up some 43 yearlings and these were secured with a racing career in China in mind.

Furthermore it is expected that Yuesheng’s investment for the year will continue next month when his representatives will be back at Goffs looking for form horses at the company’s horses in training sale.