Quality on Offer at the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale

A further 17 selected entries have been accepted for Thursday’s Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale, scheduled to start at 1.00pm in the sale ring at Cheltenham.

The quality catalogue features 52 winning and placed point-to-pointers and form horses, including 23 winning and placed four-year-olds,16 on debut.

Of the 27 five-year-olds catalogued, 18 won or were placed on their first starts.

The four-year-old point-to-pointers include yesterday’s impressive Dromahane debut winner MIFA D’AIRY. Trained by Sean Doyle of Monbeg Stables, the daughter of Masked Marvel made the perfect start to her career, and broke her maiden tag by an untroubled 15 lengths. She looks a hugely exciting prospect and looks set for a big career under Rules.

Handler Patrick Turley sends yesterday’s Tattersalls debut winner LESS SAID, who won Division 1 of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale geldings’ maiden. He is from the first four-year-old crop of Kew Gardens and is a half-brother to the Listed-placed Humble Glory.

Two of the placed four-year-olds at Tattersalls also hold entries – the Paul Pierce-trained Poet’s Word mare GIVEMEYOURWORD, who was second in the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale mares’ maiden, and THE SUPERSONIC KID (Valirann), runner-up in Division 2 of the geldings’ maiden for handler Ross Crawford.

IDAHO ROAD (Idaho) finished second in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at the same meeting for handler Benny Walsh and is also set to travel to Prestbury Park.

Two winners and a runner-up from Rathcannon are catalogued – the Mark Scallan-trained DOUBLE ANNIE (Ol’ Man River), who won the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale four-year-old mares’ maiden, the Shane Roche-trained five-year-old geldings’ winner BALLYTEIGE (Westerner), and the John O’Donovan-trained CONTAIN YOURSELF (Tirwanako), who was second in the four-year-old geldings.

MEETMEBYTHELAKE (Ocovango) won his maiden on debut at Curraghmore on 5th April. The five-year-old gelding is from Vincent Devereux Lakeside Stables, producer of this year’s Ben Pauling-trained Grade 2 Cheltenham Festival winner Meetmebythesea.

From the British pointing ranks is NATUREOFTHEGAME, a smart debut winner of the Tattersalls Cheltenham GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden at Edgcote yesterday.

The son of Pether’s Moon, who is out of the Milan dam Incertaine, a half-sister to the two-time Grade 1-winning chaser Cabaret Queen, won by an untroubled 12 lengths for rider-trainer Dale Peters.