AT the recent Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale the bloodstock agent Federico Barberini paid €24,000 for a Dandy Man colt out of At Our Ease. The colt was twice before at the sales, selling as a foal for €2,400 at Goffs, and for €6,000 as a yearling at Tattersalls Ireland.

Bred by Paul McEnery, the juvenile is the second offspring of his Golan dam who showed little in a point-to-point, a bumper and over hurdles. Her first foal is a now three-year-old Windsor Knot colt named Bronislav and he won a couple of races last year and the weekend after the Goresbridge Sale went on to win the Polish 2000 Guineas, named the Nagroda Rulera.