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Max Kendrick’s first attempt at selling a young point-to-pointer ended in joy yesterday evening at Goffs Aintree Sale where he traded Monday’s Eyton-on-Severn winner Magnifaik for £110,000.
No less a trainer than Nicky Henderson took a shine to the filly (pictured above), whose victory in a GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden – which was sponsored by Goffs – means his client will recover £15,000 if she wins a developmental hurdle or chase within two years. Former jockey Jerry McGrath, who is now a bloodstock agent and buys regularly for Henderson and Ben Pauling, brought the hammer down and converted Magnifaik into a superb ring result.
McGrath was no stranger to the filly – who paraded with a GB Pointing Bonus rug to alert buyers to the potential money she could earn under rules – for he bought her on Kendrick’s behalf at last year’s Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale for €26,000 when she was an unbroken three-year-old store horse. She has since grown into a horse with size and scope, and it took persistence by the buyer to fend off interest from underbidder Fergal O’Brien and former top jockey Davy Russell.
Max Kendrick with his star filly during the pre-sale inspection process at Aintree (Ce)
For Gloucestershire-based Kendrick and his wife Charlotte the fall of the hammer was an emotional moment at the end of a very chilly evening of selling, Magnifaik being the last horse into the ring in a 30-strong catalogue. Looking stunned he said: “I can’t believe it. It’s mental. We love her and she’s going to a top outfit. Hopefully we’ve trained her in a way that means she can do us and all of British pointing proud. We’re a small team with Alfie Martindale and Charlotte and myself, but we were lucky to have such a lovely filly to sell.”
Minutes earlier, before Magnifaik took her turn in front of Goffs auctioneer George Stanners, Henderson stepped alongside her by the wither and performed his usual method of assessing her height. He turned away, clearly happy with the outcome, and McGrath later said: “I showed her to Nicky when he arrived here today and he was mad about her. It’s a good result all round because Max is a good friend who before he finished riding in races rode a good few horses for Nicky. I hope Max has more results like this because he’s clearly good at it – to get a big filly like this to run on Monday, come here on Thursday and look as well as she did tells you he’s been well taught.”
Yesterday’s Goffs sale produced record turnover of £3,873,00 at Aintree with a new high for the average price of £148,962.
