PEDIGREE, performance and potential are the fundamentals for selection for the Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale but add production, and of course numbers, to that mix then it’s easy to see why the top yards have so many horses catalogued.

While some are mentioned elsewhere, here we are particularly concerned with Higgins Sporthorses and MBF Sporthorses who, in various guises, sometimes between them and sometimes separately, have 19 entered, all of whom will be turned out to perfection over the course of the three days and know their job to perfection as well.