The catalogue for the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale, due to take place on Saturday, 25th January after racing on Festival Trials Day, is online now at www.tattersallscheltenham.com.
The 22 lots catalogued includes a number of horses with excellent recent four-year-old form and James Doyle’s Baltimore House Stables is consigning STARZAND, an impressive 25 length winner of the Tattersalls Ireland Winter Sale four-year-old maiden at Dromahane’s end-of-December meeting.The HARZAND gelding’s winning KALANISI dam is a daughter of the Listed-placed KYLEBEG DANCER.
The Sam Curling-trained CINAMMON ROLL won on his race debut at Ballycrystal in December. The now five-year-old gelding is by NO RISK AT ALL and is out of a five-time-winning mare by VOIX DU NORD.
The first and second home in the Tattersalls Ireland Winter Sale five-year-old maiden at Ballindenisk last weekend are set to meet once again, this time on the Tattersalls Cheltenham sales ground. The race winner LOADED AND LOCKED, by MALINAS, is to be offered by trainer Garrett Murphy of Cudgley Stables, while the runner-up MYMILKMAN, who was making his racing debut and was beaten just a length, will be sold by Donnchadh Doyle’s Monbeg Stables.
By GETAWAY, he boasts a fine pedigree being out of the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed SHADOW EILE, a BENEFICIAL own-sister to the Grade 1 Champion Bumper runner-up CORSKEAGH ROYALE.
The catalogue also includes a quartet of four-year-old bumper winners with the Colm Ryan-trained KARATE KID (SPANISH MOON) a smart winner at Leopardstown on December 27, while KILWAUGHTER (MILAN), a half-brother to seven winners and a grandson of the Group 1 Fillies' Mile winner Glorosia, won on his racing debut on Boxing Day at Down Royal for trainer Stuart Crawford.
The KARATE KID and KILWAUGHTER are both priced up for the Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper, and they offer an exciting opportunity for buyers to purchase a Cheltenham Festival runner.
STEP AHEAD (WALK IN THE PARK), trained by Don Cantillon, stayed on well to finish a good third in a competitive Listed bumper at Ascot on December 20. The five-year-old is out of the Listed-winning and placed mare AS I AM (OLD VIC).
Tattersalls Cheltenham British-trained point-to-point graduates have been running well under Rules this season and G & T Racing is due to send PAJANDRUM (BLUE BRESIL) to the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale. The five-year-old, out of the Grade 2 Rendlesham Hurdle runner-up MICKIE (KAYF TARA), was the winner of his maiden at Chaddesley Corbett at the end of December.
Recent black-type race success for Tattersalls Cheltenham-sold horses
The Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale was represented in fine style over Christmas by the Grade 3 Welsh Grand National winner VAL DANCER, the son of VALIRANN bought by Highflyer Bloodstock for £60,000 from Redbridge Stables in 2022.
The eight-year-old's win was one leg of a superb Festive racing season for Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates, the results headlined by the two Grade 1-winning novice hurdlers – the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained POTTERS CHARM, who won the Formby Hurdle at Aintree, and the Gordon Elliott-trained ROMEO COOLIO, last season's Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper runner-up, who was successful at Leopardstown.
Both are due to take up Grade 1 options at the Cheltenham Festival in the Turners Novices' Hurdle and the Supreme Novices' Hurdle.
Last weekend, HANDSTANDS continued this season's winning run of form for Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates, the six-year-old gelding an impressive 9l winner of the Grade 2 Towton Novices' Chase at Ffos Las.
Trained by Ben Pauling, the son of GETAWAY was sold as a debut-winning four-year-old point-to-pointer by Patrick Turley's Kingsfield Stables to Kilbridge Equine at the Tattersalls Cheltenham November 2023 Sale for £135,000.
Further entries for the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale will be taken from this weekend's point-to-points, which are due to take place in Ireland at Tinahely, Ballindenisk, Aghabulloghe and Turtulla, and in Britain at Larkhill, Revesby Park and Friars Haugh.
