Exciting Early Entries Online for the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale

The initial entries for the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale, to be held on Thursday, 16th April at 1pm in the sales ring at Cheltenham racecourse, features 37 selected lots, including 14 four-year-olds, 21 five-year-olds and two six-year-old winners under Rules.

The sale follows up last month’s exceptional and record-breaking Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale, which produced a best-ever price of £530,000, four horses sold for £400,000 and above, and a superb clearance rate of 93 per cent.

The success has continued on the track to the Aintree Festival with a trio of excellent Tattersalls Cheltenham-sold winners on the opening day of the meeting, headlined by the Countrywide Park Homes-owned and Nicky Henderson-trained Jango Baie, winner of the Grade 1 Racing Welfare Bowl Chase. It was a third Grade 1 success for this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up.

Nan’s Choice, winner of the Grade 2 Nickel Coin Mares’ National Hunt Flat Race, gave her connections a rapid-fire, seven-week return on investment – the five-year-old by Getaway was purchased earlier this year at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale by Dan Skelton and Ryan Mahon for £115,000.

With two days of exciting racing ahead, we wish all the connections of our graduates the best of luck today and tomorrow, and particularly in the week’s feature race, the Grade 3 Randox Grand National Chase. From the early entry, the April Sale promises to offer purchasers a talented selection of exciting young jumps horses – pedigrees, profiles and videos can be viewed online here

The four-year-old draft includes two debut winners from last weekend’s Loughanmore meeting – GLEBE HOUSE, a son of Poet’s Word, winner of the geldings’ maiden for Rob James, and the mares’ maiden winner CRAZY ALICE. She is a daughter of Affinisea, and showed a fine turn of foot to take the win for handler Ross Crawford.

At the beginning of the month, DOOCEYS LEGACY won the four-year-old mares’ maiden at Ballyknock in a dead-heat, the Jet Away mare making quick amends for an unlucky unseat when in contention on her debut the previous month. She is to be offered by handler Pat Doocey.

At Liscarroll’s end-of-March meeting, the Philip Fenton-produced LUMINO (Cokoriko) got up on the line to win a competitive five-year-old geldings’ maiden by a neck from the Eamonn Doyle-trained BOLD SCRIPT (Poet’s Word). 

Both horses were making their career debuts and the pair have pedigrees to note – LUMINO is a half-brother to the talented six-year-old Kawaboomga, who finished a good second in the Grade 2 Rathbarry & Glenview Hurdle on Easter Monday, while BOLD SCRIPT is a half-brother to the three-time Grade 1 winner Benefficient.

At the same Liscarroll meeting, BALLYDONAGH GIRL (Shirocco) won the five-year-old mares’ maiden by an easy 10 lengths for Gerard Lawless.

Point-to-point meetings are taking place this weekend in Ireland at Tattersalls, Dromahane and Rathcannon, and in Britain at Chilfrome, Hornby Castle, High Easter, Shelfield Park, Overton, Dunsmore, Penhurst and Edgcote, the latter featuring the last race in this season’s Tattersalls Cheltenham-sponsored Young Horse Maiden Series.

The Tattersalls Cheltenham team will be available to discuss final entries.