Cheltenham Festival scorer Limini to light up November Sale on Thursday

All eyes will be on Limini when the Cheltenham Festival scorer is offered during the mare session of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale on Thursday.

The eight-year-old daughter of Peintre Celebre - who was covered by Derby hero Australia in June - coasted to a four and a half-length win in the Grade 2 Dawn Run Mares' Novices' Hurdle at the 2016 festival.

Willie Mullins' charge was also an accomplished runner on the Flat having won the Petingo Handicap on Irish Champions Weekend last year.

Limini (lot 1137) - whose dam Her Grace is an unraced half-sister to the 2003 Irish Oaks heroine Vintage Tipple - is one of two mares who will be offered by Closutton Stables on Thursday.

She will be preceded into the ring by Camelia De Cotte (1136), a seven-year-old Laveron mare who earned Grade 2 laurels over fences and who also paid a visit to Australia in June.

Limini captured the Dawn Run the year before Let's Dance, a daughter of Poliglote who returned to her native France after topping last year's November Sale at €200,000, and she featured on the dance card of Doctor Dino in the spring.

Her sale marked the fifth year in a row that a Mullins-trained mare had topped proceedings.

The master trainer also handled the career of the 2011 sale-topper J'y Vole, while he sold only two mares in the intervening years.

More from the Tattersalls Ireland November Sale:

TuesdayKevin Doyle nets Altior's half-brother by Camelot for €155,000

Monday Bidding reaches dizzy heights for Flemensfirth colt out of Whizzzey Rascal

Sunday Norman Williamson stretches to six figures for son of Doctor Dino

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