Superb Catalogue for the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale

After an excellent weekend of competitive point-to-point action in Ireland and Britain, a further 14 selected entries have been accepted for Thursday’s Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale, including 10 four-year-old point-to-pointers, six of whom are debut winners, and four winning five-year-olds.

The catalogue now consists of 30 talented young jumping prospects, and the sale takes place in the Cheltenham Winners’ Enclosure after racing. The catalogue, pedigrees and race videos can be viewed online at www.tattersallscheltenham.com

Cormac Doyle of Monbeg Stables enjoyed a superb double at Lingstown on Sunday with a pair of smart four-year-olds by the exciting young French sire Goliath Du Berlais and both debut winners will be offered on Thursday.

PALINCA, a half-sister to the Listed chase winner Shokdor, was an impressive 10-length winner of the four-year-old mares’ maiden, while MONSTER TRUCK came home ahead by two and a half lengths in the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ race. Both horses look top-class individuals, and were both purchased as store horses at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

The second division of the Lingstown four-year-old geldings’ maiden went to GOT TO BE REAL, who strode clear to win by a comfortable 10 lengths. The debut-winner is by Getaway, is out of the six-time-winning and Listed-placed mare Miss Crick and will be consigned by Byrne Racing.

The four-year-old mares’ maiden at Castlelands was won by TRUE TO MY WORD (Poet’s Word) for handler Garrett Murphy, who has already enjoyed success in the Tattersalls Cheltenham sale ring this spring with a winning four-year-old when selling CATCHEM BLACK at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale for £240,000.

TRUE TO MY WORD is a half-sister to the Grade 2-placed Tiktok Casey and was a Tattersalls Ireland July Sale store horse purchase.

From the same race is SOLERETTA (Maxios), who was an unlucky faller at the last when two lengths up. She is to be offered by Denis Murphy’s Ballyboy Stables.

A further two winners from the Castlelands meeting are catalogued – the Donnchadh Doyle-trained four-year-old KOALY PLAY (Getaway), winner of the Tattersalls Cheltenham four-year-old maiden, and OCEAN MASTER (Crystal Ocean), who was successful in the five-year-old and six-year-old geldings’ maiden for handler Andrew Latta.

MICKY HALLER, trained in the UK by Josh Newman, won Sunday’s 2m4f Tattersalls Cheltenham and GB Pointing Bonus-sponsored Young Horse Maiden at Charlton Horethorne by two and a half lengths. The gelding is by Passing Glance and is out of the Grade 2-placed River Arrow (Kayf Tara).

Lots will be stabled in the RDA stable yard and will be available for viewing on Wednesday, 11th March from 11.00am and on Thursday, 12th March from 8.30am.

Printed copies of the catalogue can be collected at the sales office from tomorrow morning.