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In the age of stride length and cadence, stopwatches and sectionals, top speeds, biometrics and all of the other measurement tools out there to judge a racehorse on, one could be forgiven for thinking that all bases are covered at the breeze-up sales.  However, handler Willie Browne, bloodstock agent Ross Doyle and trainer Joseph O'Brien, three titans of the bloodstock industry, say they don't care if you utilise data until your eyes bleed--there will always be good horses that will escape through the net. That is good news for the...

Promising three-year-old Edge Of Mali (Ire) (Sands Of Mali {Fr}), who chased home Irish 2,000 Guineas entrant Currawood (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) on debut at Dundalk, has been sold to continue her career in America.  The six-figure sale represents a remarkable upswing in value for trainer Claire O'Connell's filly, who was sold for 3,000gns by Clipper Logistics at last year's Tattersalls July Sale. It was Joe Foley, long-time advisor to Clipper boss Steve Parkin, who saw the merits in what was at the time an unraced two-year-old. The sale of Edge...

Newsells Park Stud resident A'Ali (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire} became Europe's latest first-crop sire to get off the mark when his Karl Burke-trained daughter Ali Shuffle (GB) shed maiden status at the first attempt tackling five furlongs in Monday's Flat Is Back On Racing TV EBF Fillies' Restricted Novice Stakes at Redcar. 1st-Redcar, £6,850, Nov, 4-7, 2yo, f, 5fT, :59.12, gd. ALI SHUFFLE (GB) (f, 2, A'Ali {Ire}--Always Dreaming {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) broke well and raced in a prominent third from the outset of this debut. Looming large...

Senior auctioneer Ollie Fowlston has rejoined Tattersalls and will return to the rostrum at Park Paddocks for the Craven Breeze-up Sale, which takes place from April 14-16. Fowlston joined Tattersalls in 1998 and worked for the company for 25 years, before leaving to become managing director of Dullingham Park in 2023. An auctioneer since 1999, Fowlston was previously a senior member of the bloodstock team and played a key role in the development of the Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. His return will also see him undertake...

Grade 3 winner West Balboa (Ire) (Yeats {Ire}) (lot 38) leads a 62-strong catalogue for the Tattersalls Online April Sale. Scheduled for Tuesday Apr. 1 through Wednesday Apr. 2, the sale features 45 horses in- and out-of-training, nine broodmares, four yearlings, three point-to-pointers and one store. West Balboa was runner-up in the G1 Challow Novices' Hurdle and is out of the Fleminsfirth mare Rostellan (Ire), herself a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Clew Bay Cove (Ire) (Anshan {GB}). Another Grade 3 winner in the jumps sphere is Uncle Phil (Ire)...

The Tattersalls Online Breeze-Up Sale will take place at Dundalk Stadium on Wednesday, May 28, followed by the online part of the auction that will run from June 4 to June 5. This will be the third running of the Tattersalls Online Breeze-Up Sale, of which Irish EBF Auction Series Race Final winner Fiona Maccoul (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}) is a graduate. Fiona Maccoul was picked up for just €5,000 by Shane 'The Rancher' Ryan during Book 2 of the Goffs Orby Sale but, having failed to get the filly into...

Adrian Murray trainee Arizona Blaze (Ire) (Sergei Prokofiev--Liberisque {GB}, by Equiano {Fr}), who closed a nine-race juvenile campaign with a runner-up finish in November's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint when last seen, made a winning return to action in Friday's Horse Racing Every Friday Until 11th April Race at Dundalk. Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar's March-foaled bay got the better of subsequent G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere hero Camille Pissarro (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) in May's G3 Marble Hill Stakes and broke swiftly to gain an early advantage in...

The Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale will be held after racing on Day 3 of the Cheltenham Festival, Mar. 13. There are a total of 12 initial entries in the catalogue that was released on Wednesday. Of the dozen lots so far, 11 are winners, 10 of them winning on debut and seven scoring on their first starts as 4-year-olds. Clondaw Park (Ire) (Walk In The Park {Ire}) is one of the highlights, as she ran out an eight-length debut winner at Lisronagh on Feb. 23. Trained by Mick Goff, she...

A total of 93 lots have been catalogued for the Tattersalls Online March Sale on Mar. 4-5, including Willie Mullins's Closutton Stables-consigned Horantzau D'Airy (Fr) (Legolas {Jpn}) who holds an entry in the Grand National. Sold as lot 25, the gelding is one of 66 horses in- and out-of-training in the sale. He was third in the G3 Novice Hurdle at the Galway Festival last summer, and was also second in both the G3 Kerry National at Listowel in September and the G3 Munster National at Limerick a month later....

Tattersalls has released the catalogue for the Craven Breeze-Up Sale, of which dual Group 1 winner Vandeek (GB), Champion Two-Year-Old Native Trail (GB) and more recently G1 Futurity Trophy winner Hotazhell (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) are alumni. The sale is set to take place between Monday 14 and Wednesday 16 April.  A total of 182 juveniles have been catalogued for the Craven Breeze-Up Sale, which features progeny by top-class sires like Dubawi (Ire), Blue Point (Ire), Kingman (GB), Mehmas (Ire), Too Darn Hot (GB), Wootton Bassett (GB), Havana Grey...

More And More is an old ditty that the late singer Joe Dolan, one of County Westmeath's finest exports, made famous back in the 1980s. Well, the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association could not have found a more suitable backing track to the small breeder award presentation at The Heritage Hotel, which was won by fellow Westmeath man John Connaughton. For starters, Connaughton has enjoyed a lifetime of successes in business which have been replicated through his bloodstock endeavors. And even at the age of 93, the accolades keep on coming...

Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar's 2023 G2 Norfolk Stakes hero and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint runner-up Valiant Force (Malibu Moon--Vigui's Heart, by Quality Road) broke a seven-race winless streak--which included a two-test Stateside stint with Jorge Delgado--when snagging a five-furlong heat at Dundalk in early October and the 4-year-old opened his 2025 campaign with a Friday-evening victory upped to six furlongs back at the Co. Louth track. The Adrian Murray trainee, a last-out fourth tackling five furlongs here in the Oct. 25 G3 Mercury Stakes, broke swiftly...