Group 1-class cooking, crude language, a very late top lot and Shaggy - Goffs Orby was a helter-skelter ride

James Thomas recounts in glowing, and some less flattering terms, the Goffs Orby Book 1 Sale

Monday, September 25

I won’t bore you with all the gory details, but my journey to the Orby made me glad I don’t have to commute regularly.

I had to survive my alarm going off at an ungodly hour, a packed train full of people coughing and farting their way into work, followed by a bumpy ride across the Irish Sea. But once that was out of the way I was on the ground at Goffs and up and running with the sale preview.

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James ThomasSales correspondent

Published on 30 September 2023inSales reports

Last updated 17:21, 30 September 2023

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