WILLIE Mullins’ classy dual-purpose campaigner Too Bossy For Us is among 217 lots catalogued for next week’s Tattersalls Online November Sale. The largest number of horses ever assembled by the online platform will open for bidding at 11am on Tuesday, November 17th and close from 11am the following day.
Too Bossy For Us joined Closutton at a cost of 330,000gns after reach a mark of 89 for Kevin Philippart de Foy and went on to finish fifth in the Champion Four-Year-Old Hurdle the following spring.
The Golden Horn gelding later placed in the Petingo Handicap at the Irish Champions Festival and repeated the feat in September, with a maiden hurdle win and two sixth-placed efforts in Grade 1s in the interim.
He will be offered by Closutton alongside French Grade 3 AQPS winner Livio, who won a maiden hurdle on his penultimate start, and lightly-raced seven-year-old Killultagh Fox.
Baroda Stud present the largest draft of 22 lots, including the multiple-placed three-year-old Resurgence (OR80) and Lucky Vega filly Kindergarten, who reached a rating of 93 after finishing fourth at listed level.
The draft also features the well-related Galileo mare Oh So Fine and young Camelot mare Carduel, herself a daughter of dual group winner and Group 1 runner-up Endless Time. A Mehmas filly out of two-time stakes winner Lullaby Moon and a Sergei Prokofiev colt out of a listed-winning mare are among their catalogued yearlings, with the sale’s yearling session now number 58 lots after late additions since last week’s publication.
The yearling session features the progeny of proven sires such as Calyx, Cracksman, Earthlight, Equiano, Mehmas, Mohaather, Nathaniel, Persian Force, Pinatubo, Starman, Study Of Man, Territories and Too Darn Hot.
There are also six foals on offer, as well as breeding rights to Ardad, Caturra, Dubawi Legend, Harry Angel, King Of Change, Lope Y Fernandez, Palace Pier and Space Blues.
Covering sires of 26 mares catalogued include Ardad, Bradsell, King Of Change, Kodi Bear, Mayson, Pinatubo and Space Blues, as well as National Hunt sire Jet Away. One of the horses in training also appeals as a breeding prospect; Powerstown Stud’s unraced two-year-old filly is by US champion Flightline out of a multiple stakes winner, who finished second at Grade 1 level.
Over 120 consignors have entries in the sale, including Andrew Balding, Donnacha O’Brien, Ed Bethell, Ed Dunlop, Eddie and Patrick Harty, Emmet Mullins, Haras d’Annebault, Hugo Palmer, Jessica Harrington, Michael Bell, Newsells Park Stud, Ralph Beckett, Richard Hannon, Richard and Peter Fahey, Sir Mark Prescott, William Haggas and Willie Mullins.
Details of all lots as well as consignor contact information can be found on the Tattersalls Online website at www.tattersallsonline.com.