This year Goffs is celebrating the 150th anniversiary of its appointment as official auctioneer to the Turf Club and the recent November Sale reflected so many features of the bloodstock industry.

At one end of proceedings we had a poor demand for the lower market foals but yet managed to secure the highest price for any foal in Europe when a Siyouni filly, part of the Wildenstein Stables Dispersal, bought a winning bid of €775,000 from Stephen Collins, acting on behalf of Sheikh Hamdan’s Derrinstown Stud.