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[email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU ARQANA SALE | RACING REVIEW | RELATIVELY SPEAKING | INDUSTRY NEWS TODAY’S HEADLINES GOFFS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com SALE-TOPPING KINGMAN FILLY FOR SPAIN A strong final session that yielded 32 six-figure transactions and a Lot 600, the Kingman filly from Jockey Hall Stud, who top price of €350,000 for a Kingman filly could not prevent Part 1 topped the Goffs November Foal Sale when sold to of this year’s Goffs November Foal Sale from falling off the heights BLM Bloodstock for €350,000. © www.goffs.com of last year. After a low-key beginning on Monday, the sale rallied on Tuesday and then reached its crescendo yesterday when as ever, of the Invincible Spirit horse was felt at Goffs yesterday, where a the best foals commanded a premium. Even so, the turnover for filly from Jockey Hall Stud, one of only two foals on offer by the Part 1 came in at just under €20.5m, which represented a 20 point sire this week, fetched €350,000. decline on 2017. The average of €42,315 was a fall of 11 per cent, The average for Kingman’s yearlings this autumn was running although the median progressed from €27,000 to €28,000. at over 250,000gns, so it was entirely predictable that this filly The clearance rate for the first three days dropped from 81 to 72 (Lot 600), who was bred by Paddy Burns and is out of a mare who per cent, but it was worth noting that the clearance rate for cost 145,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Mares Sale, Wednesday’s session was almost on a par with last year, which would emerge as one of the leading lights of the day.