Pictured, Envoi Allen: winner of last weekend's Grade 1 Ladbrokes Champion Chase at Down Royal
The initial catalogue for the Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale, due to take place on Friday, 15th November after racing on the opening day of Cheltenham’s three-day November meeting, is online now at www.tattersallscheltenham.com.
The current 32-lot quality and selected catalogue features top-class young National Hunt talent, and all lots catalogued are winners or have finished second in competitive Irish point-to-points. They include:
• 15 four-year-old winners, 10 of whom won on debut
• 28-winning and placed four-year-olds
• Four-winning five-year-olds
• By top jumping sires such as Affinisea, Balko, Castle Du Berlais, Cima de Triomphe, Getaway, Harzand, Jet Away, Jukebox Jury, Kalanisi, Malinas, Order Of St George, Sholokhov, Tunis, Walk In The Park and Westerner.
• Leading point-to-point consignors are strongly represented, including Colin Bowe's Milestone Stables, Denis Murphy's Ballyboy Stables, Ger Quinn's Caherty Stables, Colin Motherway's Yellowford Racing, Cormac, Sean, Donnchadh and Eamonn Doyle's Monbeg Stables, Anna Calder's Leamore Horses, Ross O'Sullivan's Greenhills Farm and Rob James Racing.
Tattersalls Cheltenham sale graduates have hit the new jump season at pace with graded race victories on both side of the Irish Sea, and last weekend's card at Down Royal saw top success for both emerging and established Tattersalls Cheltenham stars.
Envoi Allen registered an amazing ninth Grade 1 success with victory in a thrilling renewal of the Grade 1 Ladbrokes Champion Chase, the win taking his prize-money haul to just shy of £1 million.
On the same card, the exciting hurdling recruit Romeo Coolio, runner-up in last season's Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper and sold the year before by Donnchadh Doyle's Monbeg Stables at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale for a joint top price of £420,000, impressed on his jumping debut with a stunning 18-length victory.
Trainer Gordon Elliott is considering stepping the five-year-old immediately into top level hurdles company, eying an entry in the Grade 1 Royal Bond Hurdle.
In Britain, Kim Bailey's 2024 Grade 3 Cheltenham Festival winner Chianti Classico, like Envoi Allen also a Milestone Stables-consigned graduate, carried top weight to victory in the Grade 3 Premier Handicap at Ascot on his seasonal debut. The trainer has the Aintree Grand National as the horse's target and the son of Shantou may run next in the Grade 3 Becher Chase.
The Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale graduate Beacon Edge won the Grade 2 bet365 Hurdle at Wetherby. It was the Gordon Elliott-trained gelding's fourth graded race success adding to his Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase victory.
Further entries will be taken for the Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale from this weekend’s Irish point-to-point meetings at Quakerstown, Dromahane and Knockmullen House, and the UK’s first meetings of the season at Knightwick and Dunsmore.
The catalogue and race replays can be viewed online at www.tattersallscheltenham.com with printed catalogues distributed from Thursday, 7th November.
Tattersalls Live Internet Bidding will be available for those who are unable to attend the sale in person.
