Three Additional Wildcards Added to the Tattersalls December Sale
Half-sisters to the Group 1 winners BAY BRIDGE and LOVING DREAM and a colt foal by MEHMAS have been added as wildcards to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale and December Foal Sale respectively. They are in addition to the Group 1 winners PRINCESS ZOE and THE PLATINUM QUEEN who were added to the December Mares Sale in the past week.
The six-year-old mare NATALEENA, a half-sister to the Group 1 Champion Stakes winner BAY BRIDGE, will be offered by the Castlebridge Consignment as lot 1639A. The daughter of NATHANIEL is out of the MULTIPLEX mare HAYYONA, herself a half-sister to the Aga Khan’s Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner SHIMRAAN. A winner of five races, NATALEENA will be offered in foal to successful first season stallion HARRY ANGEL who has five Group/Listed performers in his first crop of two-year-olds including the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes runner-up MARSHMAN.
Houghton Bloodstock will offer the winning three-year-old SEA THE STARS filly FIVE STARS as lot 1639B. The well regarded winner of her first two starts at two is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix de Royallieu winner LOVING DREAM and the Grade 1 American Oaks third AMANDINE and is out of the Listed winner and Group 1 Moyglare Stakes third KISSABLE, herself a grand-daughter of Juddmonte Farms’ matriarch EVA LUNA.
There is one additional wildcard in the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, with Castlefarm Stud offering a MEHMAS colt as lot 725A. The colt is out of BLISSFUL BEAUTY, a winning daughter of OLYMPIC GLORY who finished fourth in the Listed Prix de Thiberville and is a half-sister to the Group 2 winner HOME OF THE BRAVE. MEHMAS has enjoyed a sensational start to his stud career with three Group 1 winners and nineteen Group & Listed winners in his first three crops of racing age including this season’s Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup winner MINZAAL.
The Tattersalls December Sale starts on Monday, 21st November with the December Yearling Sale, followed by the December Foal Sale on Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th November and the December Mares Sale, featuring the Sceptre Sessions, from November 28th to December 1st. Catalogues are online now and available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives.