Saracen heads Tattersalls Online May Sale with 85-lot catalog

Saracen is the horse that gives Tattersalls Online’s May Sale its edge. A Greenham Stakes third with a win on debut at the Curragh and a solid Group 3 run behind Jonquil at Newbury, the Joseph O’Brien-trained Siyouni gelding brings a form line buyers can actually price, not just a name on a page.

That matters because the 85-lot catalog is built to move quickly and broadly. Tattersalls has split it into 72 horses in and out of training, seven stores, three broodmares, two point-to-pointers and one breeding right to Overbury Stud’s proven Group 1 sire Ardad. The sale runs over May 6-7, with bidding opening at 11:00 a.m. on May 6 and the first lot set to close on May 7 at 11 a.m. local time, a tight online timetable designed for buyers who want liquidity without a trip to a live ring.

Saracen sits at the top because he offers more than recent black-type form. He won as a juvenile at the Curragh in October 2024, then confirmed that effort by finishing third to Jonquil in a Newbury Group 3 last spring. For buyers looking at the flat-racing end of the market, that is the kind of profile that can still go a long way as a racehorse, while also carrying resale value if the next step comes quickly.

The catalog’s other selling point is that it reaches beyond the flat. Willie Mullins’ Closutton draft includes four lots, headed by Hipop de Loire, a listed winner who was third in the 2025 Doncaster Cup, alongside Chosen Witness, Plontier and Looking for Eight. Add in the stores and the point-to-pointers, and the sale offers a mix of ready-made runners, jump prospects and horses that still need development.

Then there is Ardad. Tattersalls describes the stallion as a proven Group 1 sire, and the breeding right offered at Overbury Stud adds a different kind of intrigue to the session. Tattersalls previously sold an Ardad breeding right online for 52,000 guineas in 2021, the first breeding right offered online in Britain or Ireland, a benchmark that shows this is not a novelty lot but a serious piece of breeding stock with a market history.

A broodmare like Navette, by Nassau Stakes winner Winsili, adds another layer to the sale’s depth across Britain, Ireland and France. Tattersalls Online has built its platform around horses and fillies in and out of training, broodmares, two-year-olds, point-to-pointers, stores, yearlings, foals, breeding rights, stallion shares and racehorse shares, and this catalog shows why the format has stuck: it can package racehorse value, breeding upside and fast turnover in one place.