Gelding makes world record €320,000 at Tattersalls

The Cheltenham Bumper winner for 2017 may well have been sorted yesterday when a half-brother to the versatile Publican and the winning mare, Misspublican, was knocked down to Harold Kirk at Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sales for a world record for a national hunt three-year-old store of €320,000.

Bound for Willie Mullins’s yard, the gelding is also closely related to the Carlow stable’s recent Royal Ascot winner Clondaw Warrior.

A son of Rathbarry Stud sire and fashionable ‘stallion de jour’ Robin Des Champs, Lot 260 was offered for sale by Galway’s Lakefield Farm and eventually went to Kirk after some frenetic bidding left him and Henry De Bromhead standing when the hammer eventually dropped.