SIGNIFICANT GAINS ON THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER NH FOAL SALE

 A son of Flemensfirth and a full-brother to the dual Grade 2-placed Sizing Gold topped the day’s proceedings bought by Aiden Murphy for €95,000.

"He's going to the UK to race, he is a great-walker, a lovely horse and his full brother is already a graded horse," said Murphy.

Eudora O’Connor of Lough Na Sollis Stud, with her father John, consigned the colt on behalf of neighbour Martin Fleming.

"I am delighted," said Fleming. "It is a great result. The mare’s foal last year made €35,000 and to go better again, is wonderful. Eudora and John prepare the foals for the sales and they do a very good job."

The colt’s dam Mandys Gold was bought for Fleming as a three-year-old - she won two races and was placed 17 times.

The mare's 2010 colt by Presenting called Exxaro has twice finished second in bumpers and is due his first run over hurdles this weekend, while Mandys Gold is back in-foal to Flemensfirth. "She always does her foals so well," said John O'Connor of the mare. 

It was a great day for Lough Na Sollis Stud as the farm also sold the joint-second top lot, a Gold Well colt out of a Presenting half-sister to the multiple Graded winner and dual Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 chase runner-up First Lieutenant.

Purchaser was Patrick McCann of Northern Ireland-based Brooklands Stables, a fitting result as McCann had been underbidder on the top lot.

"We were disappointed not to buy the first horse, but everything has a price," said McCann. "But this is a lovely horse too. Options are open - we might reconsign at the Derby Sale." 

Also going to €52,000 was Ormond Bloodstock, who bought a Milan half-brother to four winners, headed by J’Y Vole, winner of the Grade 1 Dr P.J. Moriarty Chase.

Tom Rudd of Ormonde Bloodstock said of the Cleaboy Stud & Coppice Farm-consigned colt: “He is a lovely individual and has been bought for an English client, but will board with us. We were looking for one to bring back to the Derby Sale and he fits the bill – he is by a proper sire and we love him.”

The sale continues at 10.00 am tomorrow morning.