THERE are 65 individual sires with progeny in the upcoming Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale (November 9th to 11th) and, while it’s good to see six Irish Sport Horse stallions among them, they are vastly outnumbered by their European studbook-registered counterparts.

There is just one thoroughbred represented and he, the Slyguff Stud-based Pointilliste, is sire of three lots. The first of these is Mary Fitzgerald’s five-year-old mare Fair Point (Lot 7), who comes from the family of the multiple Puissance winner Bishops Quarter (also CCI3*) and has 13 Show Jumping Ireland points to her credit.