CATHAL Ennis of Quill Farm will be selling a Milan colt foal out of Miss Arteea at the Tattersalls Ireland November Sale on Wednesday as Lot 627 and the pedigree improved at the recent Down Royal meeting when his half-brother Identity Thief landed the Grade 2 WKD Hurdle on just his sixth start. This was the Kayf Tara gelding’s third win and he is clearly a horse with a bright future.

Carrying the Gigginstown House colours and trained for Michael O’Leary by Henry de Bromhead, Identity Thief is the second winner from just two runners for his dam Miss Arteea. The year before he was born his half-brother Oscarteaa was foaled and he earned black type when runner-up on his most recent start in a listed novices’ hurdle at Haydock.

Miss Arteea is an unraced daughter of Flemensfirth and her half-brother Arteea, by Oscar, was a Grade 3 winning chaser for Michael Hourigan and runner-up in the Grade 1 Arkle Chase at Leopardstown.

In the race before Identity Thief’s victory, the Willie Mullins trained Listen Dear won the Grade 3 EBF Lough Construction Ltd Mares Novice Hurdle and this provided yet another important catalogue update. This five-year-old daughter of Robin Des Champs is a half-sister to Lot 1069 in the Tattersalls Ireland catalogue on Thursday, a Mustameet colt from the Honner’s Clongiffin Stud. The colt is the second last lot that day.

Bought for a mere €800 by Clongiffin when she was sold in foal to Alhaarth, the Lavirco mare Crescendor is now the dam of a graded hurdle winner with her only runner. She was not the only bargain buy either as that daughter Listen Dear was sold for just €1,000 as a foal! Yet they come from a most impressive female line.

The first three dams of Listen Dear have all produced a black type winner over jumps. Crescendor is a half-sister to Tempo D’Or and he won the Grade 1 Finale Junior Hurdle at Chepstow and then added the Grade 1 Gran Premio Merano Steeplechase in a career that saw him win 19 races. Their dam Peau D’Or won seven races over jumps in France and she is a half-sister to the multiple black type winning chaser Cour D’Honneur who was something of a standing dish at Auteuil.