THERE was much talk about the quality of the three-year-olds on offer at this year’s Goresbridge Go For Gold select event horse sale but three of the four highest-priced lots, all registered Irish Sport Horse geldings, were foaled in 2022.

The sale topper, Jodie and Emma Skelton’s Borris Donny Darling (Lot 12), on whom bidding opened at €20,000, was purchased for €52,000 by American visitors Jamie and Glen Santos for their 13-year-old daughter Sydney. They attended the sale on the advice of trainer Courtney Swartz who was also in attendance with her cousin Sasha Hargreaves.