IMPROVED figures for three days of selling at the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sales was testament to the fine work put in by the sales company’s agents and the team at Irish Thoroughbred Marketing. These efforts resulted in an unprecedented number of overseas visitors to this sale, and helped to boost the clearance rate by five percentage points.

While nine of the top 10 lots remain in Ireland, to be trained or to breeze, Henry Beeby paid tribute to the groundwork put into getting so many purchasers from abroad. He said: “Goffs is the gateway to the world for Irish breeders is a phrase we use but it is more than a marketing line as Kildare Paddocks clearly showed with buyers from Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK descending in huge numbers from Sunday, giving the sale a truly international flavour.