THE Goffs February Sale is always something of a mixed bag and the first two days of trading saw weanlings that either fulfilled buyer’s requirements or emphatically did not. With an additional number being reoffered after failing to find a buyer in November there was always going to be some disappointments but those animals with any commercial appeal sold well.

Indeed there was a marginal increase in the price of the top weanling, as well as the number making €40,000 or more, while exactly the same numbers as 12 months ago made €30,000 or more. Although this makes life difficult for some breeders, I was unmoved by one vendor bemoaning the state of the market despite being associated with a weanling that made more than four times its price in England just 75 days previously.