A LATE flurry of young form horses from England and Ireland produced a strong finish to today’s opening day of the Goffs UK Spring Horses-in-Training/Point-to-Point Sale at Doncaster.

Like yesterday’s record breaking Spring Store Sale, this sale consistently produces a huge buying bench that features the leading NH owners and trainers. This again provided real depth to the market and pushed the sale’s median up a massive 53% in comparison to last year’s opening day, finishing at £20,000.

Today featured 73 more horses than the same session last year, with a larger offering of form horses over the two days, and as a result the turnover grew by a similar margin, up 52% to £3,981,500.

Topping today’s sale was Donnchadh Doyle’s Monbeg Stables who sold the debut winning point-to-pointer Invincible Cave (Lot 444) to Gordon Elliott for £210,000.

Seven lots sold for six-figure sums in today’s opening session including Loughanmore Farms’ Fleminport (Lot 428), who was knocked down to Kieran McManus for £140,000, and Vaniteux (Lot 336) from Nicky Henderson’s draft, who was purchased by David Pipe for £125,000.

The second and final day of the Goffs UK Spring Horses-in-Training/Point-to-Point Sale at Doncaster will start tomorrow at 10am.

Offered: 171

Sold: 141 (82%)

Aggregate: £3,981,500 (+52%)

Average: £28,238 (-10%)

Median: £20,000 (+53%)