ALESSANDRO Marconi is a familiar face at Goffs, and he headed to the Goffs Autumn Horses In Training Sale after missing a flight to Keeneland, and proceeded to top the sale when giving €185,000 for Tangapour, star of the annual draft of horses from the Aga Khan Studs.

The three-year-old Tangapour, a son of Wootton Bassett, was trained by Johnny Murtagh and won a mile maiden at Killarney at two, and was runner-up this year in the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes, with such as Los Angeles behind. A campaign in Dubai over the winter is most likely. The agent said: “Ownership is in the making. I have had good success here in the past. Johnny Murtagh was happy with him and would be happy to keep him. Plans need to be made.”