Bloodstock Briefing: Broad range on offer at Goffs France sale.

Byline: Janet Hickman

Goffs France (www.goffs.fr) holds its mixed Summer Sale next Thursday and Friday, July 5-6. The 210-strong catalogue features Flat and jumps horses in training, stores, breeze-up two-year-olds and fillies.

Sale graduates include King George VI Chase winner and runner-up, Algan and Challenger du Luc, plus Arkle Chase winner Or Royal, Triumph Hurdle winner Snow Drop, County Hurdle winner Master Tern, Eider Chase winner Domaine de Pron, plus Kadou Nonantais and high-class French jumpers Fulip, Gadz'Art and La Zingarella (in 2000).

Several Auteuil-winning jumpers are on offer, as well as untried stock by Cadoudal, Cyborg, Epervier Bleu,

Grand Tresor, Phantom Breeze and Useful.

Flat horses in training include stakes performers Okabango and Navalix, while among the sires of breezing two-year-olds are Desert King, Machiavellian (this one is out of a half-sister to this year's Pouliches winner Rose Gypsy) and Night Shift.

Several more first-season sires have got off the mark. Alhaarth's first winner was Hathlool at Ballinrobe on June 12, while Singspiel opened his account with Bye Bye Baby in Italy on June 17 and Desert King's son Red Briar struck at Hamilton last Wednesday. In the US, Atticus and Eltish, who both raced in Europe, had their first winners last week. And Key Of Luck sired his first stakes winner when High Society won the Listed Rochestown Stakes at Leopardstown on June 13.