Stand-out Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale

The catalogue was finalised today for the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale, due to be held this Friday at 1pm in the Cheltenham sale ring, and it can be viewed online at www.tattersallscheltenham.com.

A further ten entries have been accepted, making up a catalogue of 29 talented and exciting lots, featuring 10 four-year-old point-to-pointers, including the winners JESSBER’S GLORY, CODE NAME CUBITT, HIVE RUNNER, WELL ACHIEVED and CATCHEM BLACK.

WELL ACHIEVED won at Knockanard at the weekend for Sean Doyle of Monbeg Stables. The well-bred gelding is out of Robyn’s Rose, a Golan half-sister to the Grade 1-winning chaser Empire Of Dirt and the Grade 1-placed Panther Claw.

In a hot maiden sponsored by Tattersalls Cheltenham, the son of Milan came home a neck ahead of the runner-up Flick Of The Wrist and 2l clear of Paul Cashman’s fast-finishing PERSIAN PALACE, a first runner for Old Persian and also entered in the sale.

JESSBER’S JURY won Nenagh’s four-year-old maiden on debut by an impressive 10l for trainer-rider Brian Lawless. The JUKEBOX JURY gelding is out of the Grade 2 hurdler winner and Grade 1-placed JESSBER’S DREAM (Milan) and is an exciting high-class jumps prospect. MON AMI DAB (Tunis) finished second for Colin Bowe, 10l clear of the third.

Trainer Stuart Crawford adds a fourth horse to his trio of early entries, and LOUGHMOURNE (Maxios), a smart debut winner of the Tattersalls Cheltenham-sponsored five-year-old geldings’ maiden at the same Nenagh meeting, makes up a talented quartet of winners heading to Cheltenham from Crawford’s Newlands Stables.

MYBLUESUEDESHOES, a five-year-old son of Walk In The Park trained by Sam Curling, and WAR OFFICER by Westerner from Marie Harding’s Glen Stables, finished first and second in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at the Knockanard meeting with only a head separating the pair on the line.

With winning form under Rules is the five-year-old NAN’S CHOICE, a daughter of Getaway who won the weekend’s mares’ bumper at Gowran Park by 5l for rookie trainer Conor Houlihan.

THE JUKEBOX KID, winner of Saturday’s Ascot Grade 2 Reynoldstown Novice Chase, provided purchasers with a timely reminder as to the high-quality horse on offer every year at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale – the son of Jukebox Jury having been purchased by trainer Ben Pauling and agent Jerry McGrath in 2024 from Cormac Doyle’s Monbeg Stables for £130,000.

THE JUKEBOX KID’s connections are now planning a tilt at the Irish National with the progressive seven-year-old, winner of three of his four chase starts.

The Fairyhouse staying chase is a race in which Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates have excelled – last year’s winner and 2026 Gold Cup entry Haiti Couleurs was a Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale purchase by trainer Rebecca Curtis from Harley Dunne.

McGrath is also the buyer of the Grade 1 Arkle winner and current 2026 Gold Cup favourite JANGO BAIE, who was bought at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale in 2023 for £170,000.