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The initial entries are online for the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale, scheduled to be staged after racing on Festival Trials Day, 24th January.
The catalogue can be viewed online at www.tattersallscheltenham.com.
Well-regarded as a fine source of a quality jumps horse, the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale has produced the last two winners of the Grade 3 Welsh Grand National: the 2024 hero Val Dancer and this season’s exciting winner Haiti Couleurs, who won the Chepstow highlight under 11st13lb, a weight-carrying record.
The Rebecca Curtis-trained nine-year-old, also winner of the National Hunt Chase at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and last April’s Irish Grand National, is being prepared for an exciting tilt at this season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Haiti Couleurs (pictured above): the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale graduate winning at last year's Cheltenham Festival – he has since also been successful in the Irish and Welsh Grand Nationals
This year’s Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale catalogue is just as high on quality and features 18 early-stage entries – all winners or who have been placed under Rules or in point-to-points, including 15 horses who won or placed on their debuts.
The recent point-to-points in Britain and Ireland have produced some impressive performances, including the smart winner Game Theatre, who won the geldings’ maiden by 5l at last weekend’s Turtulla meeting for handler Paul Power.
The five-year-old gelding is by Leading Light and out of a King’s Theatre-winning own-sister to the Grade 1 Spa Novices’ Hurdle runner-up African Gold.
Last weekend also saw the Jet Away mare Doubleosue, trained by regular Tattersalls Cheltenham consignor Robert Tector, win the five-year-old mares’ maiden in fine style on debut at Tinahely.
At the end of December, Golden Current (Golden Horn), who is out of the French black-type-winning Gold Away mare Tunkwa, was a four-year-old winner of a good geldings’ maiden at Dromahane on debut for Jonathan Fogarty Racing. Second-placed was Clondaw Buster (Berkshire) for Michael Goff, who finished well ahead of the field.
At the same meeting, the Robert Tyner-trained Limestone Liberty also got off the mark at her first attempt by an easy 5l in the four-year-old mares’ maiden. By the progressive sire Order Of St George, the filly is closely related to the Listed-winning hurdler Lilting Verse, and from the immediate family of the talented multiple Grade 1 winner Commanche Court.
G & T Racing sends the four-year-old Alnwick winner Azlad (Linda’s Lad), a half-brother to the multiple winner Uncle Bert, and out of the Listed-winning and Grade 2-placed Great Pretender mare Azza. She is a half-sister to the dual Becher Chase (G3) winner Vieux Lion Rouge, the winner of 13 races, and from the family of the Grade 1 winner Marcel.
Under Rules, Otie’s Friend (Jet Away) finished second on debut in December in a competitive NH Flat race at Huntingdon for rookie trainer Nick Scholfield. The five-year-old is out of a half-sister to the admirable Take The Stand, who won 14 times and finished second in the Grade 1 Cheltenham Gold Cup.
We are taking entries from this weekend’s point-to-points in Ireland, which are due to be held at Carrigarostig and Ballycrystal, and in the UK at Revesby Park, Friars Haugh, Larkhill and the rescheduled Sheriff Hutton meeting, which is staging the Tattersalls Cheltenham Young Horse Maiden.
