A TOP price of €35,000 was achieved at the inaugural select sale of three-year-old show jumpers and eventers staged by Goresbridge Horse Sales at their Co Kilkenny base on Monday.

Including three private transactions, 22 of the 37 lots offered (40 catalogued) changed hands for a clearance rate of 60% while 75% of those horses sold made five-figure sums. There was an average of just over €14,200.