Goffs chief Henry Beeby has shared that a number of domestic trainers, agents and breeze-up handlers are expected to bolster the typically-strong foreign presence on the buying bench at the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale, from which classy performers like Bamako Beech, Sons And Lovers and Duckadilly are high-profile graduates. Beeby says plenty of the domestic players have orders still to fill. The strengthening of the yearling sale season, similar to a snowball cascading down a hill and growing in size, is said to have led to a number of buyers in Britain and Ireland with stables still to fill. And while Beeby admits to being slightly disappointed that Goffs has managed to attract only 116 [104 after withdrawals] lots to the horses-in-training section, he described himself as delighted to have a high-class Aga Khan draft in that section yet again. The horses-in-training and point-to-point offerings kick-starts the three-day sale which has regularly featured six-figure transactions in recent times. It begins at 10am on Monday.“Part 2 of the Orby Sale was strong this year. It broke records. We were delighted with it and we know of a number of trainers from both Ireland and the UK who still have orders to fill because of the strength of the yearling market,” Beeby said on the eve of the sale. “That is very encouraging. Buyers have had seven weeks of sales but there seems to still be an appetite for more. We have spoken to a number of trainers who will be here and I think some of the breeze-up handlers are always open to adding horses to their team at this sale. It has been maybe harder for them to buy what they wanted to buy over the past number of weeks so we expect a good representation from that sector as well. We are quietly hopeful. The vibe is good anyway.”Sons And Lovers could single-handedly raise the profile of the Autumn Yearling Sale if successful in the Melbourne Cup for Joseph O'Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle. He was purchased for €40,000 from Kirsten Rausing's Staffordstown Stud in the yearling section of this sale in 2022 and is as short as 16-1 for Melbourne Cup glory. Horses like Sons And Lovers, Bamako Beech and Duckadilly make it hard to argue with Beeby when he says the Autumn Sale outperforms expectations year after year.He said, “This sale punches above its weight. I mean, it used to be very much an afterthought. Not anymore. It's obviously not the sale people necessarily breed for, but it's a sale that delivers year after year and we're hopeful that this year will be no different. We have a strong bunch of foreign buyers that have made the journey to Goffs once again and we are hoping that their presence will be felt.”Beeby concluded, “And I sound like a broken record because I say this every year, but we have a very good horses-in-training catalogue – however, we'd like more. That section is headed by the Aga Khan draft, which is always extremely popular, but we'd like more Irish trainers to focus on the sale and realise that we can deliver when we get the horses. We'd like them to know that they don't need to take – particularly those middle-market horses – across the water. But anyway, that's our job to prove that and hopefully we can do that this week. We think we've a nice, tight selection with a few supplementaries, and we think the dozen or so point-to-pointers we've got will add an interesting dynamic.”The post “This Sale Punches Above Its Weight” – Foreign And Domestic Interest Expected At Goffs appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.