Leicester owner among the winners at Goffs London Sale
BUSINESS was brisk at the fourth Goffs London Sale, which took place the rather grand surrounds of the Orangery at Kensington Palace last week.
A key player in the evening’s proceedings was bloodstock agency SackvilleDonald, acting on behalf of Vic ha iS riv add han apr ab ha, the owner of Leicester City, who scooped up a total of six lots for just over £2m (€2.28m).
Alastair Donald said Sr iv add han apr ab ha had been looking to expand his interest in racing for a while, and was “keen to have greater presence at the Royal Meeting”.
Other notable sales included White fountain fairy, which cost just €3,000 at the Goffs Sportsman Sale last September and was sold for £300,000 (€342,000).
Goffs chairwoman Eimear Mulhern was naturally quite pleased with the result. “It was a wonderful day from smaller Irish stud farms who bred these horses, proving the strength of this truly indigenous industry,” she said. THINGS are certainly hotting up in Liberty Hall. So much so that Siptu, the country’s biggest trade union, had to last week take the heatwave equivalent of what primary school children would fondly refer to as a “snow day”.
Last Wednesday afternoon, as the city baked in a muggy heat, and as paidup Siptu members up and down the country gasped for breath in badly-airconditioned offices and sweaty factories, the country’s biggest trade union was doing its bit for the rights of one set of boiling workers: its own officials.
As temperatures rose and tempers frayed on Eden Quay, the trade union’s head of organisational development and support sent all staff a welcome email: “Colleagues, due to the humidity in Liberty Hall, caused by the exceptionally hot weather, we have decided to close the building at 3.30pm today.”
Rumours that Jack O’Connor and the remaining members of Siptu’s dwindling construction branch were later spotted with buckets and spades on Dollymount Strand could not be substantiated. THE business world in Ireland has become terribly health conscious of late.
If it’s not a corporate run then it’s a charity cycle, with next week’s “Battle of the Bikes”, organised by WK Nowlan Real Estate Advisors, set to attract 20 teams to a so-called ‘Rollapaluza fixed rig sprint cycle challenge’.
Last year KPMG pipped lawyers Eversheds in the final and there are plenty of corporate types lining up for this year’s race.
Competitors at the event in CHQ in Dublin’s IFSC this Wednesday evening will be cheering on the team that can be the fastest over a 500-metre sprint, with entries from companies including Kennedy Wilson, Ronan Property and AIB.
Organisers expect to raise over €20,000 for Crumlin Children’s Hospital.