A FEATURE of this season is sure to be the battle between sales houses Tattersalls and Robert J. Goff & Co to attract winning four and five-year-old point-to-pointers to their auctions in Britain and Ireland.

Whether either can secure Ballycash, who landed the opening race of the season at Toomebridge last Saturday, is debatable as owner Wilson Dennison, who sponsored the four-year-old maiden, would always prefer to sell privately.