TOP PRICED OLDER HORSES

  • Tomas Doyle’s Monbeg Echo Bay, 5 year-old gelding by Presidential Ball (dam by OBOS Quality) €50,000. (Goresbridge Go For Gold).
  • Gerard and Barbara Clarke’s Drishoge Creed, 8 year-old gelding by Hector Van d’Abdijhoeve (dam by Zanzou R) €43,000 (Goresbridge May).
  • DGLS Ltd’s River Cottage Hero, 5 year-old gelding by Ganesh Hero (dam by Colin Diamond) €37,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold).
  • Brighid O’Connor’s Cece, 5 year-old mare by Cornet Obolensky (dam by Canturo) €26,000 (Goresbridge July).
  • RC Equine and Eoghan McCabe’s Milchem Gemstone, 5 year-old gelding by Ganesh Hero Z €26,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold).

    • HAVING headed the overall returns, the Monbeg team of Marti Rudd and Tomas Doyle scored again when their smart Monbeg Echo Bay topped the older horse division at €50,000. Sourced as a just broken four-year-old from his breeder Michael Pender, the well-related son of Presidential Ball is a sibling to the highly rated stallion Madgelane Luidam, as well as to the jumper Madgeslane Louis. Changing hands at the Go For Gold sale he was secured by British event rider Chica Norfolk. The same sale was responsible for selling DGLS Ltd’s River Cottage Hero, five-year-old gelding by Ganesh Hero (dam by Colin Diamond) €37,000 (Goresbridge Go For Gold). A well-related show jumper with form up to 1.20m, he was ridden by Beth Burton and was secured by American event buyer Ruthie Meyer.