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Three British pointers join the line-up for tomorrow’s Goffs UK November Point-to-Point Sale which is taking place at Yorton Stud near Welshpool in Powys.

They are Ahoy Senor (Lot 9), The Player Queen (Lot 28) and Another Nightcap (Lot 56), who were all in action during the first weekend of the current season.

Ahoy Senor, a strapping five-year-old son of Dylan Thomas and the winning pointer Dara Supreme (Darazari), is being consigned from Mel and Philip Rowley’s Shropshire stable on behalf of owner/breeder Don Constable. An early unseater at Didmarton last season, Ahoy Senor coasted home under Alex Edwards when winning a Tattersalls Cheltenham four- and five-year-old maiden race at Kimble on the first day of this month (the pair leading, pictured above), recording a time just a few seconds slower than a competitive men’s open race run on the same card.

The Rowleys also consign The Player Queen, who won a similar Tattersalls Cheltenham maiden race at Maisemore Park last month when she received the 7lb fillies’ allowance and beat the runner-up Another Nightcap by three lengths. A £12,000 store purchase at Goffs UK’s Spring Sale last year, the daughter of Yeats, a half-sister to three winners under Rules, scored in the colours of The Fingers Crossed Partnership.

The Player Queen (Alex Edwards) who will be offered for sale by the Rowleys

Another Nightcap is offered from Fran and Charlie Poste’s Warwickshire stable, which has been selling a steady sequence of young pointers who have gone on to win or run well under Rules, this week’s Kempton winner Switch Hitter being one example. A €14,000 store purchase last year, Another Nightcap is also by Dylan Thomas and is a half-brother to a bumper winner.

Another Nightcap (James King) pictured at Maisemore Park

Sonic Gold from Emma Yardley’s Herefordshire stable has been withdrawn from the sale, and it was unfortunate that Sunday’s Chaddesley Corbett card had to be abandoned due to the lockdown in England imposed by the government a few days earlier. It was due to stage the first Tattersalls Cheltenham four-year-olds only point-to-point held in Britain and had received 18 entries, of which a number had the potential to be offered at Yorton tomorrow.

The 64-strong catalogue is dominated by Irish point-to-pointers, of which few have a higher profile than Jonbon
(Lot 8), who won on the bridle at the weekend, and is a full-brother to the outstanding chaser Douvan.

The sale can be followed live via the website www.goffsuk.com