The top lot on the second day of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale came late in the session when Aisling Noone and Simon Cavanagh of Drumloose Stables went to €54,000 for the Harzand (Ire) colt (lot 416) consigned by Garryrichard Stud.
“As soon as we saw him we fell in love with him,” Noone said of the foal. “We sold a Harzand for a client at the Derby Sale to Kevin Ross, so we have had some luck with him, and we have gone back to the well again.
“We know the family quite well as Simon is friendly with Gerald Quinn who trained this colt's half-brother Broughshane to win his four-year-old point-to-point. He is now with Jonjo and AJ O'Neill and won over hurdles in October.”
For much of the day it looked as though the top price of €42,000 was going to be a two and then three-way split between two colts by leading sire Walk In The Park (Ire), both bought by Richard Frisby, and a colt by Crystal Ocean (GB) from Graiguebeg Farm, who was purchased by Tom Howley's Brook Lodge Farm.
“This is a very good-moving horse,” Howley said of lot 406, who is out of the six-time winner Run For Mary (Ire) (Flemensfirth), a half-sister to the G1 Prix du Cadran third Run For Oscar (Ire) (Oscar {Ire}).
“The mare was a good runner and I am a big fan of the sire. I have a few by him for next year's store horse sales and he had a juvenile bumper winner last week.”
The first of Frisby's two purchases by Walk In The Park was lot 227, who was prepped by Gillian Kinahan for breeder and consignor Kevin Haverty's Hillview Farm, while the other, lot 389, provided Jimmy and Eileen Furlong's Thistletown Stud with another notable result after they sold the top lot on the opening day of the sale, a colt by Jeu St Eloi (Fr) who fetched €58,000.
The November National Hunt Sale continues at 10am on Tuesday.
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