ANOTHER piece of bloodstock sales history was written on Tuesday when the Aga Khan-bred three-year-old Ebendi was sold for €165,000 to Joseph O’Brien in Goffs’ first timed online sale.

A maiden winner at Killarney in July for Dermot Weld before finishing second at the Curragh to subsequent Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Order Of Australia, Ebendi attracted 27 bids from five individual bidders representing interests from Europe, South Africa and Australia.

The three-year-old Le Havre gelding is out of a winning daughter of Irish Oaks star Ebadiyla and is a half-brother to a number of blacktype performers including the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu winner Ebiyza.

Ebendi was originally catalogued for the Goffs Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale which took place earlier this month as a live online sale. However due to being cast in his stable, he was withdrawn and reoffered in this new format.

Pat Downes, manager of the Aga Khans Studs in Ireland, said: “To have bidders from three continents for Ebendi was very encouraging. The format worked well and it is one that I could see developing, very much for horses in training and possibly for a mare.”

The next Goffs sale is the December National Hunt Sale which will be a ‘normal’ sale at Kill on December 9th-10th.