THE Tattersalls Ireland Cheltenham Select May Sale takes place on Thursday, May 26th starting at 1pm. Approximately 40 lots are already catalogued but, with wildcards accepted up to time of sale, a similar catalogue size to last season is expected where approximately 50 horses were offered.

Colin Bowe sends a strong team of six entries - Lost Frequency (half-brother to eight winners), Benechenko, and One Forty Seven are all four-year-old maiden winners. The mares Caseys Oscar and Milan Express both won above average maidens, while Rare Conor is closely related to Our Conor and ran a cracking race to finish second at Athlacca.

Donnchadh Doyle consigns his Athlacca four-year-old maiden winner Secret Investor who he describes as a “big staying chaser” while his brother Sean Doyle is responsible for the impressive Ballindenisk four-year-old maiden winner Searching For Gold.

Denis Murphy sends an attractive draft including Lough Derg Spirit, a recent Athlacca winner from the family of Feathered Leader. Minella Rebellion is an own-brother to Balthazar King, while The Wicket Chicken won her maiden at Dawstown.

Declan Queally’s recent Curaheen winner Rocky’s Treasure is a half-brother by Westerner to Double Shuffle who recently gained blacktype and Dermot McLoughlin’s winning Court Cave mare Court Adjourned won a maiden on her debut at Broughshane in good style.

Bumper form includes Nigel Slevin’s Down Royal four-year-old bumper winner Third Estate, Lillian - who won a maiden hurdle by 28 lengths on her most recent start for Seamus Mullins - and also Peter Fahey’s Miss Tynte who was second in a Punchestown Festival bumper on her debut where 23 ran.

Middlebrow won his bumper recently at Ballinrobe for Liz Doyle who has an excellent sales record at this venue.