5.20 2m. 17 Declared. Tattersalls Ireland Sales Bumper of €100,000.00 4/5-y-o
1st - €60,000.00 2nd - €20,000.00 3rd - €10,000.00 4th - €5,000.00 5th - €3,000.00 6th - €2,000.00
FormscanBy Alan Magee - Willie Mullins won this valuable bumper with Kopek Des Bordes last year and SUNSHINEWAY looks the pick of his five newcomers this time with son Patrick in the saddle. The Galiway gelding cost 170,000 euro last year and the dam has already produced four winners including a Listed scorer on the Flat in France. Le Tatoue Madrik, a 115,000-euro store by Cokoriko, and I’m Slippy are other newcomers to note. Four Wise Poets showed promise when third to Oneinthewell on debut at Leopardstown last month, while Intosomethinggood was third in a Listed bumper at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day.
An I.N.H. flat race for four and five years old only that have not won a race under any N.H. Rules or Rules of Racing other than one, two or three I.N.H. flat races or N.H. flat races or a combination of such races and which had been catalogued and offered in the Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale of May 30th, 2024, the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale of June 26th & 27th, 2024, or the Tattersalls Ireland July Store Sale of July 24th & 25th, 2024. Horses must be declared by Tattersalls Ireland Ltd. as being eligible to enter and run in accordance with the relevant Conditions of Sale. Horses which do not have a registered name and are not Returned In Training with a Licensed Trainer by Wednesday, 19th March, 2025 will be automatically struck out of this race (Please note for Irish and British bred horses, trained in Ireland, an acceptable naming application should be made to HRI by Thursday, 13th March, 2025 at the very latest. For all other foreign bred horses, trained in Ireland, naming applications will take longer to process)Weights - 4-y-o 11st 6lbs 5-y-o 12st Mares allowed 7lbsRiders - Qualified Riders under I.N.H.S. Rules. Allowances to riders under Rule 52 may be claimed in this race. HRI Directive 10 (ii) (c) is suspended for the purpose of this race The IHRB, using their powers under Rule 22 have suspended the appropriate paragraphs of Rules 121 and 122. Should it be necessary to reduce the number of declared runners to the maximum runners or to such a lesser number that the Stewards may decide, the following procedures shall be applied for the elimination and balloting of horses: (i) Runners will first be reduced by balloting from among those horses that have not run in an INH Flat race, a N.H. Flat race, a Hurdle race or a Point-to-Point Steeplechase in Ireland or Great Britain prior to Tuesday, 15th April, 2025. Cont???.. ????.Contd (ii) In the event of (i) not achieving the recommended limit, runners will then be reduced by balloting from among those horses that have not been placed first, second, third, fourth or fifth in an INH Flat race or N.H. Flat race, second, third, fourth or fifth in a Hurdle race or first, second, third or fourth in a Point-to-Point Steeplechase in Ireland or Great Britain prior to 15th April, 2025, with the order of e