Goffs UK Director Stuart Mactaggart has decided to take early retirement and will finish his role with the Company at the end of the month.
Following the success of last month’s Goffs Online January Sale, which sold horses-in-training and breeding stock up to £300,000, Goffs are to hold another timed online sale on 24 March for which entries are now open.
Today’s online January Sale broke new ground for Goffs as COVID-19 restrictions forced the Horses-in-Training and Breeding Stock to be offered in a timed online auction which resulted in 36 horses selling for a turnover of £1,138,100.
Due to the continued COVID-19 restrictions, Goffs UK have taken the decision to postpone the NH Weanling session of the Doncaster January Sale and will instead offer NH Yearlings during a dedicated section of the Doncaster August Sale on 4 – 5 August.
The highly impressive bumper winner Hollymount has been added to part 1 of the Doncaster January Sale, an online only auction from 10am on 26 January.
This year’s Doncaster January Sale will differ from its normal format and has been split into two parts: part 1, a timed online sale of breeding stock and horses-in-training (26 January) and part 2, a physical sale of NH weanlings at the Doncaster Sales Complex (17 February).
The Horses-in-Training and NH Breeding Stock sections of the 2021 Goffs UK January Sale will now be offered through Goffs Online on Tuesday 26 January and the online only catalogue will be available to view next week.
Following the latest lockdown measures announced by the Irish and UK Governments in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Goffs has confirmed several changes to its early New Year sales at Kildare Paddocks and Doncaster.
Today’s new December P2P Sale at Yorton Farm produced a superb finish to Goffs UK’s 2020 sales calendar with the outstanding Irish Pointer Classic Getaway equalling the world record for the highest priced pointer sold at public auction.
The final catalogue for this Thursday’s Goffs UK December P2P Sale at Yorton Farm in Wales is now online and features 19 new entries taken over the weekend, taking the total catalogue to 37 high-class horses.
Top-class race mare La Bague Au Roi, winner of the Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase and Grade 1 Flogas Novice Chase, will be offered at the Goffs UK January Sale at Doncaster on 26 – 27 January.
An additional eleven UK and Irish pointers have been added to the new Goffs UK December P2P Sale at Yorton Farm Stud on 17 December, taking the catalogue to 16 pointers with a weekend of high-class meetings to come.
The Willie Stephenson Memorial Trophy commemorates the co-founder of DBS, now Goffs UK, and is awarded annually to the person or persons whom the Goffs UK Board feel have made the biggest contribution to the success of the company during that year.
Goffs UK has seen a busy sales schedule from its Doncaster base in 2020 and sales from this location came to a successful conclusion earlier today when the December HIT Sale saw a good level of trade from start to finish.
Irish point-to-point meetings over the weekend produced some outstanding young horses which feature in the initial batch of entries for the new Goffs UK December P2P Sale at Yorton Farm Stud in Wales on Thursday 17 December.
14 entries have been supplemented into next Friday’s Goffs UK December HIT Sale at Doncaster, taking the total offering to 157 lots.