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Three Lots Added to Tattersalls Online March Sale

Three Wildcards have been added to the Tattersalls Online March Sale, which will take place on Mar. 8-9. The sale is now comprised of 27 lots, which includes 16 horses in/out of training, three mares, six 2-year-olds and two point-to-pointers.

Wildcard entries include the highly rated Moriko De Vassy (Fr) (Cokoriko {Fr}), who is offered as lot 26. A winner on four occasions, the 6-year-old is out of Mony Vassy (Fr) (Sleeping Car {Fr}), herself the dam of Group 2-placed Moka De Vassy (Fr) (Karaktar {Ire}) and the listed-placed Lisa De Vassy (Fr) (Cokoriko {Fr}).

Sacre Coeur (Fr) (Montmartre {Fr}) (lot 25) is a five-time winner from the Jonjo O'Neill yard, while lot 27, Speeding (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}), hails from the Farranamanagh Stud draft.

Details of all available lots can be found at Tattersalls Online.

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Mikimoto Tops ThoroughBid’s March Sale

Martin Keighley went to £46,000 to secure recent Hereford bumper winner Mikimoto (GB) (Scorpion {Ire}) (lot 40) through ThoroughBid's March Sale. Formerly trained by Henry Daly, the 4-year-old gelding will now head to Keighley's Condicote Stables.

“We had the second in the race that Mikimoto won at Hereford and we thought that he was a decent horse, so I was interested when I saw him in the sale,” Keighley said. “I think £46,000 is a more than fair price and being able to sit here in my office bidding made the whole process very easy. It's my first time using the platform and it was all very straightforward.

“Although he's only four, I believe he's not a backward horse at all and he'll probably go for another bumper again before going over hurdles next season.”

James Richardson, CEO of ThoroughBid, said, “We're really pleased with the sale of Mikimoto, who was last seen winning his bumper just five days ago. Being flexible in the bloodstock sales space is key and I know that both Henry Daly and Martin Keighley are very happy with the deal they've got.

“Having two of Jump racing's biggest yards in the shape of Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott both selling with us is great to see, while it was also good to have Shark Hanlon back buying again.

“Ben Clarke, who purchased Cheltenham Festival-bound Elegant Escape (Ire) (Dubai Destination) through us last year, looks to have purchased a nice Walk In The Park filly for £30,000, so she could be one to keep an eye on and we'd like to wish him the best of luck once again.”

You can view all the March Sale results here.

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National Hunt Sales Catalogues to Reference Point to Point Wins

There has been a change to the treatment of point-to-point performances in sale company catalogues, the International Cataloguing Standards Committee (ICSC) European sub-committee announced on Friday.

Currently, winning British and Irish point-to-point performers are classified as runners, but not as winners in either the subject horse detail or the dam summary line. For all National Hunt sales from April 2023 onwards, if the progeny of a dam has won a point-to-point in Great Britain or Ireland but the same animal has not won under rules the point-to-point only, winner(s) will be referenced as point-to-point only winners in the dam summary line and/or produce summary.

Progeny that have won both under rules races and in a point to point will continue to be described as a winner as currently. Sale catalogues which are designated 'Flat' will continue to not treat winning point-to-point performances as wins and not reference any progeny which were point to point winners only.

Tattersalls Ireland's Simon Kerins and Nick Nugent of Goffs jointly said, “This rule change gives greater clarity around the presentation of form in National Hunt catalogues. It addresses the clear anomaly whereby catalogues have listed any point-to-point performers to be runners for the dam, but do not consider a winner of such a contest to be relevant for the mare.”

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Quality Road’s Cairo Back With A Bang At Dundalk

Coolmore and Westerberg's 3-year-old colt Cairo (Ire) (Quality Road–Cuff {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}), a multiple Classic entry, justified long odds-on favouritism with a comfortable success in Friday's one-mile Listed Patton S. at Dundalk. The homebred bay followed up an August maiden win at the Curragh with a second in the Co. Louth venue's Sept. 30 Listed Star Appeal S. and closed his juvenile campaign with a 2 3/4-length triumph in October's G3 Killavullan S. at Leopardstown. The eventual winner, Aidan O'Brien's first domestic runner of the year, was sharply into stride from the outside stall and raced in a close-up second through halfway. Nudged along to gain control soon after turning for home, the 3-10 chalk was not for catching thereafter and kept on strongly under urging inside the final furlong to prevail by two lengths from News At Ten (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}).

Cairo is the third of five foals and one of two winners from as many runners produced by Listed Naas Fillies' Sprint S. victrix Cuff (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), herself kin to six black-type performers headed by MG1SP sire Gustav Klimt (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), G1 Gran Criterium heroine Nayarra (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and G1 St James's Palace S. third Mars (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). The April-foaled bay's second dam, MGSP Listed Empress S. victrix Massarra (GB) (Danehill), is daughter of G1 Prix de Diane heroine Rafha (GB) (Kris {GB}) and thus a half-sister to G1 Haydock Sprint Cup-winning sire Invincible Spirit (Ire) (Green Desert) and to the dam of three-time Group 1 winner Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}). He is half to a 2-year-old filly by No Nay Never and a yearling colt Wootton Bassett (GB).

 

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