The racing community and the wider public have donated 70 items for the special fundraising auction for JT McNamara and Jonjo Bright at today’s Limerick Charity Raceday in aid of the Jockeys Emergency Fund.

Ireland’s valuable bloodstock sales almost halved last year as the crippling effects of the recession hit the country’s renowned horse racing sector.

Sheikh Mohammed has acquired a yearling colt by the late Dubai Millennium for €1.2m at the Goffs Orby Sale.

Seven horses were attacked overnight ahead of Ireland’s premier sale, it emerged today.