LAST weekend’s inaugural Goffs UK Tingle Creek sale saw £1.8 million spent on 14 horses with Irish point-to-point form from the preceding weeks, bringing the total spend on point-to-pointers this autumn to just over £5.4 million.

Strikingly, that leaves the average price for those points sold at public auction this season at £96,800 as the clamber to secure the pick of each weekend’s point-to-pointers has left some handlers and owners richly renumerated for the pick of their produce.