QUALITY CATALOGUE AVAILABLE FOR FEBRUARY NATIONAL HUNT SALE

The one-day sale is due to take place on Tuesday, February 4 and has a scheduled start of 10.30am.

In total, 254 lots are catalogued, consisting of 177 yearlings, 22 two-year olds as well as a mix of horses in and out of training, a number of store horses and 37 mares and breeding stock.

The yearling draft boasts plenty of siblings and close relations to black-type winners and performers, including to a number of Festival Championship winners. One of the highlights in the catalogue is Lot 88, a Milan colt out of Blessingindisguise, a half-sister to last year’s Gold Cup winner and this year’s ante-post favourite Bob’s Worth.  The next lot due in the ring is a Yeats half-sister to the former Champion Hurdler and four-time Grade 1 winner Binocular (Lot 89), Lot 127 is a Stowaway colt out of Fairy Dawn, a sister to the former Gold Cup winner Kicking King, while Lot 59 is a March-born full-sister to the three-time Grade 1 winner Benefficient.

The Grade 2 winner Megans Joy (Supreme Leader) is dam of Lot 178, a colt by the promising stallion Court Cave, while Pomme Tiepy, the seven-time winner, four-time graded race winner and Grade 1 runner-up, is dam of Lot 210, an April-born Presenting colt. Lot 147 is a Flemensfirth half-brother to last year’s top lot.

Covering sires of the mares due to be offered include young sire Fame And Glory (Lot 217), as well as the established sires Flemensfirth (Lot 230 and Lot 236), Milan (Lot 235), Robin Des Pres (Lot 241), Stowaway (Lot 239 and 244), Kalanisi (Lot 246), Winged Love (Lot 248) and Gold Well (Lot 250).

The February National Hunt Sale is a fine, early source of future NH talent with its graduates headed by this season’s Grade 1 Betfair Chase winner, King George VI runner-up and Gold Cup 8-1 third favourite, Cue Card. The talented son of King’s Theatre is the winner of four Grade 1 events, including twice at the Cheltenham Festival. He was a €75,000 yearling purchase by Aiden Murphy from Goldford Stud.

Further leading performers from the sale include the multiple Grade 1 winner Flemenstar, the 2013 Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 runner-up Tofino Bay, last March’s Grade 2 Kelso Hurdle winner Mwaleshi, as well as the 2012 Grade 1 winner For Non Stop and the Grade 2 winner, Grade 1 third Mr Cracker. 

Last year’s sale saw a 67 per cent jump in the median price to €6,379, with a top price of €60,000 given by Highflyer Bloodstock for a Robin Des Champs yearling colt from the family of Invictus and sold by Ashwood Stud.

The February NH Sale catalogue is now available to view online and will be distributed from early next week. To obtain a copy, contact the office on +353 1 8864 300 or email info@tattersalls.ie.