IN 1988 the Goffs Irish National Foal and Breeding Stock Sale was held from December 5th to the 9th. The top price was 200,000IRgns for the French Oaks winner Dunette, in foal to Lomond. This was five years after she set a European broodmare record price of 820,000gns at Newmarket.

The most expensive foal at the sale was Barronstown Stud’s daughter of Kings Lake and the high-class Tudor Melody mare Spirit In The Sky, the dam at the time of six winners. Joss Collins of the BBA gave 86,000gns for her.