Five superb November Sale graduates who continue to make headlines

Germany-Miss Pickering (Accordion)
Coolnahay Stud to Peter Quinlan for €4,000, private sale

Nine-time Grade 1 winner Faugheen was purchased privately at this sale in 2008 by Peter Quinlan for €4,000, ranking as one of the greatest ever bargains at the Tattersalls November Sale.

The May-born Germany colt out of the unraced Miss Pickering, offered by Coolnahay Stud on behalf of breeder Dr John Waldron, lacked any black-type performers under his first three dams. But Quinlan overlooked all that.

His judgement was vindicated in April 2012 when Andy Slattery sent him out to win a four-year-old maiden at Ballysteen by an emphatic eight lengths.

Faugheen’s best performance to date on Racing Post Ratings has been his 15-length demolition of the field in the 2016 Irish Champion Hurdle, and few will forget the raids on Cheltenham where he won the 2014 Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle and Champion Hurdle a year later.

The popular ten-year-old holds entries for the Morgiana Hurdle on Sunday and the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle in early December.

Milan-Tempest Belle (Glacial Storm)
Windward House Stud to Tom Fitzgerald for €18,000

Monalee is the latest star bred on the Milan-Glacial Storm cross after the likes of Cheltenham Festival winner Mall Dini and dual Welsh National hero Mountainous.

Henry de Bromhead's stable star Monalee was sold by breeder Aidan Aherne for €18,000 in 2011 to Tom Fitzgerald, for whom he won a five-year-old geldings maiden at Templenacarriga.

Bought privately by Barry Maloney, Monalee has won four times in 13 starts under rules and despite his jumping letting him down last season - falling twice when going strongly - he notched a Grade 1 win in the Flogas Novice Chase at Leopardstown in February.

Monalee returned when third to Snow Falcon in a Grade 2 Chase at Down Royal earlier this month.

Henry de Bromhead's stable star Monalee is an €18,000 Fairyhouse graduateCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Indian River-Native Mo (Be My Native)
Fred Mackey to John Dineen for €6,000

Native River challenges Faugheen for the title of best-bought foal from this sale, with John Dineen having snapped him up for the princely sum of €6,000 in 2010.

Like Faugheen and Monalee, he was to emerge from the Irish point-to-point scene, though in his case when unceremoniously depositing his rider on the turf when in third at Dromahane.

The son of Indian River hasn’t looked back since though, and his 11 wins under rules show a fondness for Newbury, where he has won the Denman Chase twice and the prestigious Hennessy Gold Cup.

He also returned victorious in the 2016 Mildmay Novices’ Chase, that year’s Welsh National and, most significantly of all, the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The son of Indian River heads the betting with Might Bite and Presenting Percy for the same contest next year.

Sir Percy-Hunca Munca (Presenting)
Preston Lodge Stud to Lime Farm for €22,000

Bred by Johnny Weatherby's Preston Lodge Stud, Presenting Percy was the most expensive of these five graduates but warrants his place in the list having stormed clear in this year's RSA Novices' Chase by seven lengths, a performance which has seen him vie for favouritism for the Cheltenham Gold Cup next March.

He was one of two festival winners this year along with Rathvinden out of daughters of the late Presenting, who is represented by 17 foals and three mares at this week's sale. Presenting was also responsible as damsire for the Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up Might Bite.

What's more, Presenting Percy's brother will be offered by agent Mill House Stud as lot 658 on what promises to be a strong day of foal trade on Tuesday.

"He is a classy and very athletic foal who shows many of the same attributes as his full brother Presenting Percy who has given us a wonderful thrill winning at the last two Cheltenham Festivals and is vying for Gold Cup favouritism this season."

- Johnny Weatherby of Preston Lodge Stud on lot 658

Flemensfirth-Last Of The Bunch (Silver Patriarch)
Railstown Stud to Brown Island Stables for €14,000

Brown Island Stables snapped up Relegate for €14,000 from Railstown Stud at the 2013 edition and turned a fair profit when selling her again for €35,000 to Colm Murphy at the 2016 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

Relegate won her first three starts for owner Paul McKeon including a Grade 2 bumper at Leopardstown en route to success in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper from Carefully Selected.

The five-year-old mare was one of four Grade 1 winners last season for her sire Flemensfirth - who has 22 foals and three daughters on offer this week - along with Poetic Rhythm, Tornado Flyer and Waiting Patiently.

She could next appear in the Royal Bond Novices' Hurdle at Fairyhouse in early December.

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