Key Information

Sale Date:

25-26 Jun 2025

Sale Start Time:

10:00am

Catalogue Online:

6 May 2025

More Grade 1 Winners than any other Store sale

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale is recognised as the Ireland’s Premier Store Sale, and is renowned for being the leading source of Grade 1 winners. To maintain that long held view, the emphasis when selecting our stores is on quality. As a select sale, our inspectors handpick the best individuals with pedigrees to match, resulting in a catalogue that distinguishes it from other Store sales. Since it’s inception in 1974, the Derby Sale has produced the top priced Store sold anywhere, while regularly producing the highest average and median.

The 2025 Derby Sale will see the reintroduction of a third day, Part II. The catalogue will also include two-year-old Stores. Academy Hurdles will feature within the race programme in Ireland from October 2025, and these are aimed at offering earlier racecourse opportunities for horses purchased at our Store sales.

The spring festivals at Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown regularly produce Grade 1 winning graduates from the prestigious Derby Sale.

Grade 1 winning Derby Sale graduates during the 2024/25 National Hunt season included Brighterdaysahead, Kopek Des Bordes and Lecky Watson. Brighterdaysahead memorably landed back-to-back Grade 1s in the Morgiana Hurdle and Neville Hotels Hurdle, while Kopek Des Bordes maintained his unbeaten record in the Michael O’Sullivan Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham. Lecky Watson was sublime in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, while graduates that have performed with credit are nine-time Grade 1 winner Jonbon and Future Champions Novice Hurdle winner Romeo Coolio.

Grade 1 winning graduates throughout the 2023/2024 National Hunt season included Gerri Colombe and Grey Dawning, while Brighterdaysahead and Jonbon both secured top level successes. Other high profile graduates from the Derby Sale sale include dual two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Energumene, and dual Champion Hurdle winner Honeysuckle.

The 50th Derby Sale saw some impeccably bred three-year-olds catalogued, among them a sibling to Grade 1 winners Brighterdaysahead, Mighty Potter and Caldwell Potter.  The son of Doctor Dino was offered by Walter Connors’ Sluggara Farm, and it was Gordon Elliott Racing that purchased the gelding named Ravendark for €350,000.

Paul Nicholls and Tom Malone combined to purchase six lots, including a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Hermes Allen named L’Unique Allen. Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk combined to purchase six lots, among them a son of No Risk At All from the family of Cheltenham Gold Cup runner up Djakadam.

Monbeg Stables were the most prolific purchasers numerically, adding a total of 28 lots. Two of those sourced by the Doyle brothers were for six figure sums, among them a Walk In The Park half-brother to Grade 1 winners Might Bite and Beat That.

 

 

 

 

Turnover
€13,969,500
Top Price
€350,000
Average
€47,841
€100,000 or more
25 lots
€150,000 or more
6 lots