Harzand's first foals among 1,175 lined up for December Sale

Dual Derby hero Harzand is among a strong cohort of first-crop sires represented in the 1,175-strong catalogue for this year's Tattersalls December Foal Sale, which takes place from November 28 to December 1.

Other first-crop sires featured include Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Awtaad as well as Belardo, Bobby's Kitten, Charming Thought, Fascinating Rock, Hunter's Light, Marcel, New Bay, Pride Of Dubai, The Gurkha, The Last Lion, Twilight Son and Vadamos.

Buyers are set to be spoiled for choice, with other lots on offer by Acclamation, Camelot, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Frankel, Galileo, Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Lope De Vega, Pivotal and Sea The Stars.

Vendors have been well accommodated, with this year's foal section set to be the fifth largest since 2000.

The largest consignment is the team of 51 foals coming from Paul and Sara Thorman's Trickledown Stud, closely followed by the 45 to come from the Castlebridge Consignment.

Minster Stud, which topped the last year's sale with the Dubawi half-brother to Jack Hobbs, has a team of six including the Golden Horn half-brother to last year’s outstanding sale-topper.

Also sure to prove popular is lot 1006, the Dubawi brother to dual Group 3 winner Ghaiyyath and half-brother to Zhukova, who is out of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Nightime, and the Galileo sister to three-time Group 1 winner Decorated Knight.

The dispersal of the European-based stock of Bobby Flay also includes three eyecatching foals by Dark Angel, Invincible Spirit and a Frankel colt out of the Montjeu mare Auld Alliance.

US- and French-based stallions also feature prominently with established Group 1 sires Bernardini, Elusive Quality, Kendargent, Kitten's Joy, Le Havre, Temple City, Wootton Bassett and War Front all well represented alongside first-crop sires Air Force Blue, Dariyan, Flintshire, Shalaa and Vancouver.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "The Tattersalls December Foal Sale is a prolific source of both Group 1 winners and spectacular pinhooking triumphs and we have some truly outstanding foals catalogued for this year’s sale.

"The sale consistently attracts the cream of the British and Irish foal crop and this year's catalogue has the quality and diversity to appeal to buyers from throughout the world at all levels of the market."

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