Record-breaking Grech and Parkin dispersal to conclude at August Sale

Owners Mike Grech and Stuart Parkin - whose big-race winners have included the likes of Claimantakinforgan, Constantine Bay and Mr Whipped - will offer the remainder of their collective bloodstock interests at the Goffs UK August Sale on Wednesday, when ten lots will be offered without reserve.

The first part of the dispersal created a stir when Darren Yates and Philip Kirby, who have since parted ways, teamed up to buy the Nicky Henderson-trained Interconnected for £620,000, making the son of Network the most expensive jumps horse to be sold at public auction.

Lust For Glory and Kupatana also proved a hit with buyers, with the black-type mares selling for £235,000 and £210,000.

Among the dispersal's August Sale draft is Pumped Up Kicks (), a Listed chase winner by Flemensfirth who will be offered with her Pether's Moon colt foal at foot; a 2017 Pether's Moon gelding () out of an unraced half-sister to the Grade 1 hurdle winners Lac Fontana and All Yours; and a 2017 Norse Dancer gelding () out of Alegralil, a Listed hurdle winner by King's Theatre.

A number of old favourites are also set to be moved on by their trainers ,including Ibis Du Rheu (101), who won the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival for Paul Nicholls.

The eight-year-old Blue Bresil gelding showed a revival of form last season when winning a Class 2 novice chase at Cheltenham in November, and his owner John Hales suggested he would make a National horse in time.

Racing TV and Luck On Sunday presenter Nick Luck is also sure to be keeping a close eye on proceedings when Kevin Ryan's Hambleton Lodge Stables sends Metal Exchange () through the ring.

The three-year-old Helmet filly - who Luck sold as a foal - is the first horse he bred, and she sprung a 25-1 surprise when winning on debut at Newcastle in January.

Metal Exchange's dam is the High Chaparral mare Bochafina, who also has a two-year-old Pether's Moon colt and a yearling Helmet colt.

One particularly strong draft is the trio of lots consigned by trainer Emmet Mullins, whose three entries are headed by the smart Killarney bumper winner Giovanni Change (), whose sire French Fifteen has sired Group winners French King and Sestilio Jet on the Flat.

Mullins also consigns his stable stalwart St Stephens Green (), a son of Diamond Green sourced by him and his cousin Patrick Mullins for €18,000 at the 2014 Goffs Land Rover Sale.

St Stephens Green has been an admirably consistent performer, having won three times on the Flat including at the Curragh, and a bumper, beginners' chase and two hurdle races, including a Grade B handicap hurdle at Killarney.

Completing the Mullins draft is Rocket Lad (), one of two supplementary entries in the catalogue having earned his place in the line up thanks to an impressive bumper win on the final day of the Galway festival.

The other supplementary entry is Razoul (), who won a Roscommon maiden hurdle by ten lengths on his most recent start. His trainer Ray Cody has pointed to the Lartigue Hurdle at the Listowel harvest festival as a suitable target for the four-year-old son of Mastercraftsman.

Another significant update from the Galway festival came for Hasanabad (196), a four-year-old Nathaniel colt who won the concluding race on the Friday for Dermot Weld and who features as part of the six-strong draft from the Aga Khan Studs.

The August Sale has provided a happy hunting ground for those buying for the US jumps market, with last year's sale topped by the Nathaniel gelding Amschel, a three-time hurdle winner in Ireland who subsequently finished third to Detroit Blues in the Champion Hurdle at Far Hills last October for trainer Cyril Murphy.

Another to have made his mark is Zanjabeel, who was purchased by Gordon Elliott and Aidan 'Mouse' O'Ryan for £7,500 from Shadwell at the 2016 August Sale.

The son of Aussie Rules won the 2017 Champion Hurdle at Far Hills for Elliott and Jack Kennedy, and was trained thereafter by Richard Hendriks, for whom he won the Grade 1 Iroquois Hurdle at Percy Warner Park and the Grade 1 Lonesome Glory Handicap Hurdle at Belmont Park.

Last year's report:

Amschel provides impressive return as August Sale posts across-the-board rises