Tattersalls Cheltenham Sales

Cheltenham Preview Night 

Widely hailed as one of the best Cheltenham Festival preview nights there has been, Tattersalls Cheltenham hosted an informative four-person panel discussion over supper at Cheltenham’s very own The Ivy restaurant on February 19, on the eve of the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale.

Hosted by Sky Sports Racing presenter Vanessa Rylie, the top-class panel featured the sale company’s own Ger Hannon, Gold Cup-winning former jockey Robbie Power, local trainer Ben Pauling, who has trained four Festival winners, alongside the 41-time Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer Gordon Elliott, also a regular buyer at the Tattersalls Cheltenham sales.

A lively and entertaining evening was had by all … and with plenty of input and banter from the invited audience.

While night enjoyed some broad-ranging discussion, it put into sharp focus hopes and plans for the upcoming Festival, which has plenty of Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates boasting leading chances, including Romeo Coolio, No Drama This End, Haiti Couleurs, Envoi Allen, The Jukebox Kid, and, of course, the current Gold Cup favourite, the Nicky Henderson-trained Jango Baie.

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Haiti Couleurs

Haiti Couleurs was a gallant winner of the Princess Royal National Hunt Challenge Cup Novices' Handicap Chase at last year’s Cheltenham Festival – this year the Tattersalls Cheltenham sale graduate returns to scene of that triumph to take on the biggest challenge of them all – the 3m2f Grade 1 Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Trained by Rebecca Curtis, who bought the son of Dragon Dancer at the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale in 2022 for £68,000 from Harley Dunne Racing, the gelding has won nine of his 15 career starts and nearly £500,000 in prize-money earnings.

After 2025’s thrilling Cheltenham success, he went on to win April’s competitive Grade 3 Boylesports Irish National at Fairyhouse and then in December, in just his second season over fences, he put in a massive weight-carrying record performance to win the Grade 3 Coral Welsh National.

Last time out the nine-year-old was the impressive all-the-way winner of Newbury’s Grade 2 William Hill Denman Chase – the race is a major trial for the Gold Cup and four winners have gone on to win the Cheltenham showpiece in the same year.

The Tattersalls Cheltenham team headed to the Curtis’ Pembrokeshire-based yard to hear the latest on the yard superstar as preparations are finalised ahead of the big day at Prestbury Park on Friday, March 13th.

Paul Nicholls Road To Cheltenham

Trainer Paul Nicholls is looking ahead to this year’s Cheltenham Festival and extending his already superb haul of 50 Festival winners.

He has an exciting team of contenders, headed by the Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates No Drama This End, the current market leader for Wednesday’s Grade 1 Turners Novices’ Hurdle and winner of the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle, Quebecois, who is being aimed at the Grade 3 Ultima Handicap Chase, and the four-year-old Minella Yoga, who is under consideration for the McCoy Contractors Premier Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.

The Tattersalls Cheltenham team visited the Ditcheat yard and chatted to Nicholls about his Tattersalls Cheltenham graduates and his hopes for the week’s racing at Prestbury Park.