Tattersalls Ireland

Ahead of the Irish Champions Festival, Ado McGuinness opens up about one of the most difficult years of his life and his reinvention as a trainer of two-year-olds  When Ado McGuinness was at his lowest ebb last year, he rightly would have looked at you twice had you told him that the next 12 months would see him bag a couple of premier handicaps, become an overnight success on the west coast of America and face into the Irish Champions Festival brimming with confidence about taking out a €250,000 pot....

Another day, another son of Order Of St George in pride of place at the Tattersalls Ireland July Store Sale. Thursday's top lot is out of listed-placed Little Miss Poet (Yeats) (lot 306) and sold for €50,000 to Darren O'Dwyer Bloodstock. Consigned by Liss House, the bay is a grandson of G2 Prestbury Juvenile Novices' Hurdle second R De Rien Sivola (Robin Des Champs). Wednesday's topper was also a son of Order Of St George. The only lot to meet or exceed €50,000 during the sale's second session, the gelding...

The first day of the Tattersalls Ireland July Store Sale was topped by an Order Of St George gelding at €55,000. Sold by Liss House to Gaynestown, lot 32 is from the same family as Grade 2-placed hurdler Carriganog (Shantou). Overall, eight horses made €30,000 or more, with a son of Harzand (lot 4) the other lot to breach the €50,000 mark. Brian Lawless picked up the Glebe Farm offering for €52,000. At the close of trade, 155 horses sold for €1,381,950. The average was €8,916 and the median was...

Jaber Abdullah's America Queen (Havana Grey), a €180,000 graduate of May's Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up sale, made a start on recouping that investment with an impressive debut performance in Thursday's Selecta Systems EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes over six furlongs at Haydock. The Richard Hughes trainee, who was originally knocked down for €48,000 as Goffs November foal, went postward as the 11-8 favourite and tracked the leaders from a midfield berth through the early fractions. Making smooth headway from halfway to assume control passing the quarter-mile marker, she quickened clear and was...

A bay gelding by Poet's Word caught the eye of Ballyboy Stables' Denis Murphy and was knocked down for €52,000 to top the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale Part II on Friday. This year marked the first time the Derby Sale Part II had been staged since 2017. Sold by Drumloose Stables, the gelding just the second lot in the ring, and Murphy said, "I know this pedigree well and I love Poet's Word - this is the first by him that I have bought, I have not been able to...

A record price for a store sold anywhere in Ireland this year, combined with a record number of 38 lots sold for €100,000 and above, were among the highlights at this year's Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, which concluded on Thursday. The sale topper was lot 338, the Walk In The Park gelding out of the smart racemare Posh Trish (Stowaway), who went the way of trainer Dan Skelton and Ryan Mahon for €285,000 to cap a successful sale for John Dwan's Ballyreddin Stud and Katie Rudd's Busherstown. On Wednesday, the...

Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins bought the top three lots during the opening day of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale on Wednesday. A gelding by Nathaniel from Castledillon Stud caught their eye at €180,000. Sold as lot 138, he is out of the dual listed winner Floressa (Poliglote), who had placed at Grade 1 level over jumps. The gelding was an €87,000 pinhook from Goldford Stud. Earlier in the day, the duo had purchased Miss Mam (Masked Marvel) for €150,000 from Oak Tree Farm, and Mystere Du Chenet (Doctor Dino)...

Last seen running third behind the absent Lake Victoria in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas, Shane Stafford's €50,000 Tattersalls Ireland yearling Cercene (Australia) stepped forward in ultra-game fashion to become the longest-priced winner of Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation Stakes. The 33-1 outsider went forward to track the leaders in fourth after the opening exchanges, as TDN Rising Star Falakeyah (New Bay) raced too freely on the front end, and inched closer once into the home straight. Gaining an edge approaching the furlong pole, she was immediately tackled and headed by...

There is always a story at Royal Ascot and this year's meeting opener, the G1 Queen Anne Stakes, delivered an immediate slice of drama as Harry Eustace trainee Docklands (Massaat) provided the Newmarket conditioner with a thrilling first Group 1 triumph, by a pixel, despite Australian rider Mark Zahra dropping his whip in the closing stages of the straight one-mile test. The Queen Anne is a "Win and You're In" for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar this coming November. Last year's runner-up, who annexed the Britannia Handicap...

Jewel Hope and Bentraghhill led the way at €150,000 apiece during Thursday's Tattersalls Ireland May Point-to-Point & Horses-in-Training Sale. The former, sold as lot 35 from Monbeg Stables after winning a point-to-point at Ballindenisk, caught the eye of Hamish Macauley Bloodstock. By Masar, he is a half-brother to a pair of stakes horses, including Hope Cross (Cape Cross), who was second in the GIII My Charmer Handicap and another half-sister is the dam of G1 Gold Cup-winning stayer Subjectivist. Offered by Loughanmore Farms, Bentraghhill (Getaway) was snapped up by Harold...

Tattersalls Ireland, RATOATH - Oh what a feeling it is to be playing with the house's money. Eoin McDonagh, one of the most upwardly mobile handlers on the circuit, finds himself in that very position after a bonanza of a breeze-up season and he bids to end the year with a bang at the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale - the sale that got him going.  And he has a strong chance, too. His eight-strong Shanaville Stables draft features juveniles by Hello Youmzain, Starspangledbanner, Lope De Vega, Sioux Nation and more....

A number of wildcard entries have been announced for this week's Tattersalls Guineas Horses-In-Training Sale as well as the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale that takes place next month.  The horses-in-training section of the Guineas Sale takes place on May 1 and features the wildcarded King's Call (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}), who is rated 95, and recent winner Cast Party (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). King's Call is catalogued as lot 165. The three-year-old son of Dandy Man was a winner on debut at Ayr last year before holding his own...