THIS year’s Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes winner Marsha is the latest star to be added to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, which runs from December 4th-7th.

Earlier this week Tattersalls revealed that two Group 1 winners - Zhukova and Intricately - owned by John Murrell and Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez would be offered for sale at the auction.

Trained by Sir Mark Prescott, the four-year-old Marsha (by Acclamation) won the Prix de l’Abbaye last year for her owners, the Elite Racing Club. She is due to end her racing career in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar where she will renew rivalry with Nunthorpe runner-up Lady Aurelia.

The December Sale was already set to be headlined this year by the Ballymacoll Dispersal, which is being handled by the Castlebridge Consignment. Bill Dwan’s company is also consigning Zhukova, Intricately and the same owners’ Group 3 winner Only Mine to the sale.

Zhukova, by champion sire Fastnet Rock out of Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime, is the winner of seven races and £375,000 in prize money, with her finest hour coming in the Grade 1 Man O’War Stakes at Belmont where she trounced a top-class field of colts by six lengths.

Her two-year-old Dubawi half-brother Ghaiyath emerged as a serious 2018 Derby prospect by winning the Group 3 Autumn Stakes last weekend.

The three-year-old Intricately gave trainer Joseph O’Brien his first Group 1 winner in last year’s Moyglare Stud Stakes, with subsequent Group 1 winners Hydrangea, Rhdodendron and Brave Anna all behind her. Also a close up fourth behind Winter, Roly Poly and Hydrangea in the Group 1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas, Intricately is by Fastnet Rock out of a Galileo half-sister to champion miler Rock Of Gibraltar.

The four-year-old sprinter Only Mine (by Pour Moi) has been a model of consistency, winning or being placed in 13 of 17 starts to date for trainer Joe Murphy. In her emphatic victory in the Group 3 Lacken Stakes at Naas she had subsequent Group 1 winner Aclaim behind her.

The full catalogue for the sale will be published online next week.