The re-jigging of the Orby running order had a positive knock-on effect to the Wednesday Part 2 session, according to Goffs chief Henry Beeby – and the proof, as they say, is in the eating, with a €210,000 Cotai Glory filly leading the way on a day when all of the key metrics were up. The Cotai Glory filly, who is a half-sister to the razor sharp sprinter Ostraka (Profitable), was knocked down to Montgomery Motto. The Irish National Stud-drafted filly was one of four horses to clear six figures on the day and contributed to an 8% rise to the €5,286,000 turnover. The €27,532 average represented a 6% rise and, while the median stayed the same at €20,000, such positive figures and strong footfall proved to Beeby that kick-starting the Orby Sale on Monday can only be viewed as a positive.“It has worked,” Beeby commented about beginning on Monday as opposed to Tuesday over the past two years. “It worked this year and it worked last year. We trialled it last year and we broke records in both sales. The feedback last year was that it put almost too much pressure on some trainers in the UK who were at Newmarket on the Saturday, because then they couldn't really come until late on Sunday.”He added, “So we organised a plane this year – there were 40 people on it – from Newmarket, through the private terminal in Stansted, to Dublin. The buyers were very appreciative of that.So it's worked for Part 1 and it's worked for Part 2, because more people than ever before have stayed on. I mean, Kia [Joorabchian] is still here – so, too is Alex Elliott and Anthony Bromley. There are many others here who wouldn't normally be here, so I think it is working.”While we are essentially only at the half-time stage of the Part 2 Orby session, Beeby admitted to being hopeful that, in light of the positive results posted on Wednesday, more and more breeders and pinhookers will view Part 2 as a destination sale for their horses.He said, “Along with the top buyers, we've also got a huge international contingent that came especially for Part 2. Our international agents – Eastern Europeans and Italians – came specifically for this sale. Some English trainers came, specifically for this part of the sale, like Tim Easterby, Michael Dods and more. So it's definitely gathering momentum. It's definitely a very important sale to us and to Irish breeders, because it needs to be here. There is great positivity around and, really, this week has been quite gratifying. The positivity around the place and the goodwill from both parties has been really good. We've spent a fortune on entertaining, a fortune on courtesy cars, on hotels, on planes and everything. Happily, it's slotted together and worked well.”The Cotai Glory filly was bred by Austrian native Michael Rosenfeld, who is a long-time associate of Goffs' own Eimear Mulhern. She is a half-sister to G3 Mercury Stakes scorer Ostraka (Profitable) and hails from the family of Osterhase, who Mulhern's late husband John trained. She explained, “This is a family very close to me. John [Mulhern) trained Osterhase. This client of ours, Michael Rosenfeld, raced this filly's grand dam in Austria where she was a champion. He brought her to Ireland and John trained the produce, so we have been associated with the family the whole time. “Mr Rosenfeld is probably the only Austrian owner in Ireland. A great enthusiast, he has raced all the family, all from that mare who came from Austria all those years ago, and she has made her own family here in Ireland. So we are absolutely delighted.”Mulhern added, “Mr Rosenfeld couldn't be here, but we had him on the phone. That was way beyond our expectations. I told him she'd probably make 40 thousand, so I couldn't believe it. She's a princess, absolutely gorgeous. Her sister [Osterode] was just beaten a nose in a maiden half an hour ago, and Mr Rosenfeld still owns her. “He boarded his horses with us for years and now has them at the Irish National Stud, and they train with Willie McCreery. It is a great story. He had his horses with John until he passed away. Mr Rosenfeld was always a great friend of the yard, and of Stephen McCarthy. We have had an association for maybe 30 years.”Barry Lynch filled the role as underbidder on the Cotai Glory filly who will likely be trained in Europe, according to Motto.Kevin Ross was responsible for the first six-figure lot on the day when going to €140,000 on an Awtaad colt from Moyfinn Stud. The agent, who sourced the Goffs Million runner-up Hi Corbett Court here 12 months ago, said, “He has a lovely pedigree and is a lovely horse. He is going to take a bit of time, but we don't mind that. We like the sire as well – we have been lucky with him. He is for Gavin Cromwell. We have been lucky together – hopefully it keeps going. We have similar tastes in horses.”Ross added, “We try to get a variety of different types, a few early ones and a few later types. He fitted the bill for us – just a lovely stamp of a horse. He has plenty of scope.”That sale represented a massive result for breeder Laurence Kennedy, who bred the colt at his Pigeon Park Stud in Longwood, County Meath, “just a field away from Gordon Elliott”.Kennedy said, “I'm very, very pleased with that result. We knew he was a nice horse, and initially thought we might put him in Goffs Orby Book 1. But, fair dues to Nick Nugent, he convinced us that the colt might stand out more in Orby Book 2. He would have been up very early in Book 1.“Paul Giles and his nephew James in Moyfinn Stud are just great at prepping and consigning, so they must take a lot of the credit, too.”He added, “It's great, we're small operators but it's not a hobby for us, we do the job commercially, so it has to pay its way. That's why a sale like this is so important; it keeps the boat afloat. The mare [Girl Of The Hour] has been great for us. She had two cracking fillies early on [Create Belief and Star Girls Aalmal] and her progeny have sold reasonably well ever since. This one is the best so far, though. You wouldn't believe it, but Girl Of The Hour is in foal to Awtaad again! I didn't put too much thought into that covering.“It's a one-man show, though I have some great girls who work part-time for me. We only had three mares foal last season, and you can't run an operation commercially with those numbers. We have seven mares in foal this year, it's been good to get numbers back up.”Thought for the dayGoffs had its critics when it came to rearranging the Orby Sale to start on Monday as opposed to its usual slot on Tuesday but it's hard to argue that it didn't work. When have we seen the likes of Alex Elliott, Ben McElroy and more hanging around for horses during the Part 2 session? The reality is that there have been some soulless Part 2 sales in recent years and, while the figures more or less mirrored last year's session, there was a feeling on the ground that, for the quality on offer, the figures were strong. Extremely so, in fact. Credit has to go to Goffs. The new schedule might not be a help to the bigger trainers or owners with runners at Newmarket or the Curragh on the eve of the sale but, for the overall majority of vendors, it works well. 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