Quality Entries Online for the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale
The Cheltenham Festival week promises a thrilling four days of top-class action on the racecourse, quality that will be matched in the sale ring with an excellent initial draft of 16 lots catalogued for the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale, which takes place after racing in the winners’ enclosure on Thursday, March 14th.
The success of the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale is best illustrated by its past graduates and likely runners at next week’s Festival – the multiple Grade 1 winners BRAVEMANSGAME and GERRI COLOMBE are set to line up in next week’s highlight, the Grade 1 Boodles Gold Cup, while the unbeaten bumper horses JALON D'OUDAIRIES, ROMEO COOLIO and QUEBECOIS, the top three lots sold at last year’s Festival Sale, all hold strong chances in next Wednesday’s Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper.
Initial entries for next Thursday’s Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale include 12-winning and second-placed debut four-year-old point-to-pointers, two five-year-old debut winners, a Grade 2-winning mare holding a Grade 2 entry at the Cheltenham Festival meeting, as well as a four-year-old Leopardstown bumper winner.
Leading stallions represented include AFFINISEA, BEAUMEC DE HOUELLE, BUCK’S BOUM, CASTLE DU BERLAIS, DOYEN, GETAWAY, JACK HOBBS, JET AWAY, KINGSTON HILL, SADDLER MAKER, SAINT DES SAINTS, WALK IN THE PARK and WESTERNER.
The two five-year-olds catalogued are both winners and are to be consigned by Matty Flynn O’Connor’s Ballycrystal Stables with THE BIG WESTERNER, an impressive winner of her Ballycahane maiden last weekend. She is a Westerner half-sister to the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale graduate, the 2023 Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle winner and Wednesday’s Grade 1 Brown Advisory Novice Chase second favourite STAY AWAY FAY.
Also, included in this year’s sale is HARMONYA MAKER, the Grade 2-winning, two-time Listed-winning and multiple Grade 2-placed daughter of Saddler Maker, offered with an entry in Friday’s Grade 2 Mrs Paddy Power Mares Chase and with the opportunity of running in her new owners’ colours. She is an exciting racing prospect but also offers significant paddock value.
Further entries will selected through to Monday, 11th March.