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A colt by Dubawi topped the Goffs November Foal Sale, when bought by Godolphin for €1.2 million.
A colt by Dubawi topped the third and final day of the Goffs November Foal Sale Part 1 on Wednesday when bought by Godolphin for €1.2 million.
Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment, lot 745 is a chestnut son of Dubawi out of the Galileo mare Nightime making him a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Zhukova and a brother to Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath.
The Dubawi colt was the only seven figure lot with Shadwell Estate Company buying the second top lot for €575,000. Catalogued as lot 658 the filly was offered by Ballylinch Stud and is by Dark Angel out of Faraday Light making her a half-sister to Irish 1000 Guineas (Group 1) winner Just The Judge.
The 3 day sale has seen 524 of the 645 lots offered sold for a total of €25,721,800, up 26% on the 2018 figure. The average of €49,087 was up 16% from €42,351 in 2018 whilst the median was €30,000, up 7% from €28,000 a year ago.
Reflecting on a record breaking November Foal Sale Part 1, Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said: "We're nothing without the horses" is a phrase we use regularly and it was never truer than today as we witnessed a trade of intensity and strength which was driven by a superb selection of the cream of the 2019 foal crop. We are indebted to so many leading breeders, from Ireland and the UK, who have entrusted us with their best foals and are simply delighted to have repaid that trust with some amazing prices.
Heading the day was unsurprisingly the beautiful own brother to Ghaiyyath who had held the distinction of being the highest priced colt foal ever in Ireland, as well as Europe's highest priced foal of his year. For the 2019 colt to eclipse even that price at €1.2 million is a superb result for his breeders and we are so grateful that we were given the chance to deliver for them again. His price was backed up by three others to better last year's top price and a trade of sustained demand over the three days of our Part 1 Foal Sale that built to a real crescendo today."
Godolphin finished the sale as the leading purchaser having bought 2 lots for €1,530,000 while Yeomanstown spent €1,062,500 on 17 foals. The Castlebridge Consignment sold 40 foals for €3,500,500 to be leading vendor.
