THE Goffs Million will evolve into the Goffs Two Million Series following this year’s Orby Sale, and the Sportsman’s Sale has been rebranded as Orby Book 2.

Around 1,000 yearlings will be catalogued for the new-look four-day Orby Sale (September 26th-29th) and they will all be eligible for the Goffs Two Million Series in 2024.

The series will be headed by the

  • €1 million Goffs Million over seven furlongs at the Curragh on the Saturday before the 2024 sale, with prize money down to 10th place
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In addition the

  • Goffs 500 will be run over six furlongs at the Curragh on the same day. This race will be worth €500,000 and with prize money down to 10th place.
  • There will also be a Goffs €50,000 Bonus Series which will see €50,000 bonuses awarded to Orby graduates who win one of a series of two-year-old maidens run in Ireland before the next Orby Sale.
  • This means a minimum of €2 million in prize money will be earned by graduates of the 2023 Goffs Orby Book 1 and Book 2 Sales before the 2024 renewal.

    Goffs CEO Henry Beeby said: “The primary issue facing British and Irish racing is prize money and this initiative confronts it head-on as we evolve the idea and provide a huge pay day where the focus is on the owners and trainers that invest in Orby yearlings as well as spreading the rewards throughout the season and across the country.

    “Orby Book 1 and Book 2 are designed to represent the best of Irish yearlings at all levels of the market and our call to Irish breeders is to support the Irish National Yearling Sale with your best as Goffs will deliver and exceed your expectations. Goffs will continue to invest in our global buyer attraction campaign that saw so many buyers at Kildare Paddocks last year and the only complaint was that they wanted more top tier yearlings as they have the orders and don’t go elsewhere. This latest attraction will only drive more buyers to Orby to buy as their first choice.”