62 Lots Catalogued for Tattersalls Online April Sale

Top class National Hunt mare WEST BALBOA is set to be a highlight of 62 lots catalogued for the Tattersalls Online April Sale which takes place on Tuesday 1^st April – Wednesday 2^nd April. The full catalogue is now available to view at www.tattersallsonline.com and features 45 horses in and out of training, 9 broodmares, 4yearlings, 3 point-to-pointers and one store.

Consigned by Dan Skelton’s Lodge Hill Stables, WEST BALBOA boasts an outstanding career to date having both won and placed in the Grade 3 Gaskells Handicap Hurdle at Aintree on Grand National day, as well as winning the fiercely competitive Lanzarote Handicap Hurdle at Kempton. The decorated daughter of YEATS has also been placed in Grade 1 company having finished runner-up in the Grade 1 Challow Novices’ Hurdle behind STAGE STAR. She is out of FLEMINSFIRTH mare ROSTELLAN who is a half-sister to Grade 2 winning chaser CLEW BAY COVE and Listed hurdle placed MY NAME’S NOT BIN.

Willie Mullins’ Closutton Stables returns to the platform with an exciting trio of entries headlined by Grade 3 winning chaser UNCLE PHIL. The eight-year-old son of WALK IN THE PARK is a winner of five of his 18 starts including the Grade 3 Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase at Fairyhouse as well as finishing third in the Grade 2 Craddockstown Novice Chase at Punchestown. He is being offered alongside Grade 2 placed MISS MANZOUR. With an attractive pedigree, the five-year-old daughter of ALMANZOR is out of a winning half-sister to the dam of dual Group 1 winning sprinter HELLO YOUMZAIN. Completing the draft is IRIS EMERY, a winning half-sister to French Listed winner DEMON DE FLEUR, who is entered to run in the Ulster National Handicap Chase at Downpatrick this Sunday. 

A highlight of the flat performers includes last-time out winner QUANDARY who, following her success at Lingfield’s Trials Day on 28^th February, qualifies for a free entry into the lucrative All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Newcastle on Good Friday. Offered with a current Timeform rating of 86, the daughter of INTELLO is a half-sister to last season’s promising two-year-old winner SURPRISED. 

The three point-to-pointers catalogued are headlined by last weekend’s Portrush maiden winner SHE’S DELIGHTED from Patrick Turley’s Kingsfield Stud. Having shown great promise when runner-up at Kirkistown, the five-year-old daughter of VADAMOS duly went one better when putting in a dominant display to win by seven lengths ahead of fellow sale entrant CATWALK GIRL who is being offered by Court Stud. Cormac Doyle’s Monbeg Stables consign the consistent five-year-old GETAWAY mare MOSSY WALSH who finished second on her most recent start at Cormea, having previously finished third at Carrigarostig.

Nine broodmares are set to go under the virtual hammer including THREE GRACEZ, a four-time winner who has bred two winners from three runners to date and is a half-sister to Group 3 winner and Group 2 placed THREE HAVANAS. Another enticing prospect is CARBON ZERO, a daughter of PRESENTING out of the Grade 2 placed chaser NOT FOR BURNING. Also featuring is the well-related CAPE CROSS mare CAPE SPIRIT who is being offered in foal to AUTHORIZED. 

There are four yearlings in the sale including a filly by popular American sire OSCAR PERFORMANCE who is being offered by The Castlebridge Consignment. She is out of SAINT LUCIE, a half-sister to the dam of Listed Scarborough Stakes winner ROGUE LIGHTNING. Other sires represented with yearlings in the sale are BATED BREATH, KODI BEAR and STORM THE STARS whilst the single store offering is by ARCTIC COSMOS.

The Tattersalls Online April Sale has received widespread support from 48 consignors including Andrew Balding, Baroda Stud, Ralph Beckett, Michael Bell, Marco Botti, Harry Charlton, Church View Stables, Henry de Bromhead, Richard Fahey, James Ferguson, Eddie & Patrick Harty, Hascombe & Valliant Stud, Alice Haynes, Kildallan Farm, Mount Coote Stud, Jamie Osborne, Hugo Palmer, James Tate and Venetia Williams.

Details of all lots as well as consignor contact information can be found on the Tattersalls Online website at www.tattersallsonline.com. Prospective bidders are encouraged to join the sale now ahead of the commencement of bidding at 11am Tuesday 1^st April with bidding on the first lot scheduled to close from 11am on Wednesday 2^nd April.