DERRYLIN trainer David Christie has done very well in the past with horses bought out of Noel Meade’s Tu Va Stables and hopefully he made another successful purchase at the Goffs UK September Horses in Training sale in Doncaster on Wednesday.

David signed the £35,000 chit for Gigginstown House Stud’s Road To Riches whose nine wins on the track include two Grade 1 chases in the Lexus Chase and the jnwine.com Champion Chase, plus the Grade A thetote.com Galway Plate. At Grade 1 level, he was also placed in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Irish Gold Cup, the Ryanair Festival Trophy Chase and the Punchestown Gold Cup.

A career over banks now awaits the 11-year-old Gamut gelding who was bred by Sunnyhill Stud out of the unraced Over The River mare Bellora, an own-sister to another nine-time winner in Sullane River.

Two other horses to have previously run in Gigginstown’s colours who were purchased by Northern trainers were Tell Us More and Schmidt.

The latter, who cost the Crawford Brothers £14,000, is a six-year-old by Beneficial who ran 10 times for Henry de Bromhead, winning a handicap hurdle at Tramore at the start of June. Tell Us More, a nine-year-old Scorpion gelding most recently trained by Gordon Elliott, has won a bumper, a hurdle and two chases although you have to go back to November 2016 to find the last of these, a Grade 3 chase at Naas. Graham McKeever paid £5,200 for the bay.

Andy Oliver forked out just £2,000 to secure Shadwell Stud’s unraced Kyllachy filly Diblah. The three-year-old is out of the unraced Mind Games mare Canukeepasecret, a half-sister to Pearl Secret (by Compton Place), both being out of Our Little Secret. This is the family of Palacegate Episode and Dutch Art.