THE news carried elsewhere on this page can only be a positive boost for the yearling market at Goffs. The Orby Sale gets underway on Tuesday and is followed by another two sessions of the Sportsman’s Sale on Thursday and Friday.

Analysis of the markets so far, whether in Europe or the USA, is that they are stronger than we might have predicted earlier in the year, given the many uncertainties that hung over us. The impending Brexit scenario is the biggest cloud on everyone’s horizon.