WHEN the Goresbridge Horse Sales team decided to run a new sale of high quality four and five-year-old horses, they chose to name it after one of the Co Kilkenny auction house’s most successful eventing graduates, Copper Beach.

Bred in Co Offaly by Paddy Daly, the Radolin gelding was sold as a five-year-old at the 2011 Go For Gold Sale by Donal Barnwell. He was purchased for €28,000 on behalf of US owner Carl Segal by Ruthie Harbison, who commented to the Irish Horse World at the time: “We definitely think this fellow is four-star material”.