O’Moore Park tops GoffsGo sale at £66,000, Cheltenham target set

O’Moore Park did more than top the GoffsGo Online June Sale at £66,000. He showed why buyers are now treating online auctions as a fast-moving route to horses they can run straight away, not just a market for pedigree speculation.

D P O’Dwyer Bloodstock and Martin Keighley Racing landed the Willie Mullins trainee with a clear brief: place him for an existing client and point him toward Cheltenham meetings over the winter before the major spring festivals. That immediate plan explained the price. O’Moore Park was already a horse with usable form, having placed at Grade 2 level over fences and proven himself in the kind of races that matter to buyers looking for a quick return on the track.

The sale, which closed on 4 June after bidding opened at noon on 3 June, featured 25 lots and produced one of three horses to make more than £35,000. O’Moore Park, catalogued as Lot 11, emerged from that field as the clear headline act, and Goffs described him as a high-class chaser with notable festival performances over the previous six months. That is exactly the profile the GoffsGo model was built to serve. Launched in July 2025, the platform runs 24/7 and lets vendors move horses when they are ready, rather than waiting for a fixed auction date.

The market had plenty to evaluate beyond the page. Goffs’ preview listed O’Moore Park as fifth in the Paddy Power Handicap Chase at Leopardstown, sixth in the Cheltenham Festival Plate Handicap Chase and seventh in the Topham Handicap Chase at Aintree. Racing Post added that he had also won an Irish point-to-point and a maiden hurdle, and had been third behind Caldwell Potter in the Jack Richards Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase. Martin Keighley’s description of him as “a ready-made Saturday horse” captured the appeal neatly.

IrishRacing lists the nine-year-old, foaled on 7 March 2017, as a Walk In The Park gelding out of Glor Na Gaoithe, bred by Patrick O’Mahony and formerly owned by Mrs S Ricci. His record of one win and eight places from 20 starts, plus recent runs at Cheltenham on 10 March 2026, Aintree on 10 April 2026 and Killarney on 9 May 2026, underlines why bidders saw him as a horse for the next race, not the next resale. In a jump market that prizes immediacy, O’Moore Park was priced like a horse ready to go to work.