Limini and half-brother to Altior listed for Tatts Ireland November Sale

Cheltenham Festival scorer Limini and a Camelot half-brother to Altior foaled in June are among the standout lots in the catalogue for what promises to be a stellar renewal of the Tattersalls Ireland November Sale next month.

The auction will be shortened to five days this year and will take place on November 10-14.

Limini, who landed the Grade 2 Trull House Stud Mares' Novices' Hurdle at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival, is one of two mares listed for sale from Willie Mullins' Closutton Stables along with the Grade 2 mares novice chase winner Camelia De Cotte.

Both Limini and Camelia De Cotte were covered earlier this year by Coolmore Stud stallion Australia.

What's more, Let's Dance was snapped up for €200,000 at last year's sale by Katie Rudd on behalf of Bertrand Le Metayer, marking the fifth consecutive year that the sale-topper hailed from Closutton Stables.

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Coole House Farm will offer the Camelot half-brother to Altior on behalf of breeder Paddy Behan jnr, with the reigning Champion Chase winner having broken the record for most consecutive jumps wins in the Grade 1 Celebration Chase at Sandown in April.

The pair are out of the black-type Key Of Luck mare Monte Solaro, whose Milan gelding topped last year's Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale when hammered down to Aiden Murphy and MV Magnier for €365,000.

She also has a two-year-old filly by Walk In The Park and visited perennial champion Flat sire Galileo earlier this year.

Two other foals from the same family are also catalogued, with Sunnyhill Stud to send a Kingston Hill colt out of Monte Solaro's black-type daughter Princess Leya into the ring and Sweet Wall to offer a Gatewood colt who shares his granddam with Altior.

Sandmason saw a resurgence in popularity after supplying Grade 1 winners Black Op and Summerville Boy last year and among the high-class mares the zero-to-hero stallion subsequently covered was Annalecky, the dam of JLT Novices' Chase winner Black Hercules, whose May-foaled colt will be offered by Spencer Hawkins.

Other siblings to Grade 1 stars include Ballincurrig House Stud's Walk In The Park half-brother to Monalee and a half-brother to Special Tiara by the same sire who features among the Coolruss Stud draft.

Seven first-crop sires are represented - Irish Derby hero Jack Hobbs; fellow Group 1 winner My Dream Boat; the ill-fated German Classic winner Karpino; dual Group 2 winner Dartmouth; the well-related Pillar Coral; Group 3 scorer Koropick and the Listed winner Lucarelli.

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