Lone Eagle Sells on Goffs Online for £300,000

Group-winning 2-year-old and last season's Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby (G1) second Lone Eagle  is the latest high-profile horse to sell on Goffs Online this year, selling Nov. 22 to Ballylinch Stud for £300,000 (US$354,615).

The 4-year-old son of Galileo has proven a top-class prospect, having beaten the likes of Kyprios  in his Godolphin Flying Start Zetland Stakes (G3) win as a juvenile and then subsequent Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) winner Yibir  last season in the British Stallion Studs E.B.F. Cocked Hat Stakes. Lone Eagle was offered by his trainers Freddie and Martyn Meade to dissolve a partnership and was purchased outright by Ballylinch Stud.

Ballylinch's managing director, John O'Connor, said: "The whole online sale process with Goffs Online was very easy. It's a user-friendly platform which is simple to operate and it makes for an efficient way to sell and purchase horses." 

Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby commented on the result: "The Goffs Online service has had a strong year, and this is another great result which shows the platform's ability to be ready to host sales of high-profile bloodstock whenever clients need it. We have reserved the use of our Goffs Online timed sales for high-end horses and breeding rights, and with Lone Eagle's £300,000 result, following the mares Queen of The Stage and Quilita  selling for £340,000 ($401,897) and €205,000 ($210,289), respectively, this year, it clearly demonstrates its ability to cater for elite bloodstock whilst our superb online team led by Michael Hardy in Goffs and Michael Orton in the UK stand ready to assist sellers at a moment's notice."

Goffs' next online auction will be a timed sale of breeding rights and breeding stock on Dec. 13.