Tattersalls February Sale Begins Feb. 3

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The two-day Tattersalls February Sale gets underway Feb. 3 beginning at 11 a.m. and will offer plenty of variety for buyers, including yearlings, 2-year-olds, horses in training, and broodmares. Also taking place on Thursday, before the sale in the parade ring, is the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's flat stallion parade. Here we take a look at some of the lots to follow over the course of the two days, with emphasis on the diversity available.

The Yearling

Barton Sales offers the sole yearling by Lanwades Stud sire Sea The Moon  at the sale, a chestnut colt (Lot 96) out of the well-related winner Come Touch the Sun. 

The Fusaichi Pegasus mare has produced two winners from four runners. She is out of an unraced sister to Dimitrova One Thousand Guineas Trial Stakes (G3) winner Kamarinskaya  in the shape of the influential Butterfly Cove. 

Butterfly Cove is the dam of Total Prix Marcel Boussac-Criterium des Pouliches (G1) winner Ballydoyle , the stakes-winning group 3-placed Twirl  and, most significantly, champion 2-year-old filly Misty For Me , in turn the dam of multiple group 1 winners Roly Poly  and U S Navy Flag , the latter now ensconced at Coolmore and who has his first runners this term. 

The 2-Year-Old 

The trimming of Shadwell's worldwide operation in the wake of Hamdan Al Maktoum's death last year continues at this sale, and there are a number of 2-year-olds on offer that in different circumstances would most likely not have been. 

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One such individual is the New England Stud-consigned Sea The Stars colt out of the high-class Teofilo  mare Tarfasha  (Lot 80). The April-born bay is out of a dam who won the Moyglare Jewels Blandford Stakes (G2) and was also second to fellow Shadwell filly Taghrooda  in the Investec Oaks (G1) at Epsom.

The 11-year-old has produced a brother to this lot in Rakan , who struck in the listed King George V Cup for the Dermot Weld yard, as well as another black-type performer in Dubawi  colt Wuqood , who was a close second in the Eyrefield Stakes (G3) for the same connections.

Further back on the page are the likes of Artemis Goodwood Cup (G2) winner and Gold Cup (G1) third Saddler's Rock, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) winner Gamut, E. P. Taylor Stakes (G1T) winner Tannery, and CIGA Prix du Cadran (G1) scorer Sought Out. 

The Horse In Training 

Darwell Lion (Lot 354) arrives at Park Paddocks in a rich vein of form, having recorded a personal best at Lingfield late last month for David O'Meara. 

The son of The Last Lion  won on his sole start at 2 for Ellmarie Holden, before being switched to O'Meara's yard after two further runs without success for Holden. 

Now 4, the Michael O'Mahony-bred colt won on his first start for the North Yorkshire-based trainer in a class 4 handicap at Wolverhampton in December and two close thirds were followed by a three-and-a-half length strike at Lingfield. 

A lightly raced and progressive sort, Darwell Lion is a half brother to last season's unbeaten Jebel Ali Racecourse And Stables Anglesey Stakes (G3) winner Beauty Inspire . He looks a tempting proposition for any buyer seeking an improving performer on the track. 

The Broodmare 

Another consigned by Barton Sales, Realism (Lot 116) is a young mare with a promising future. She has a 3-year-old Lope de Vega  colt in training and youngsters by Frankel  and Too Darn Hot  waiting in the wings. 

Placed twice in the U.S. during a short career for the Bill Mott barn, the daughter of First Defence  is a half sister to the multiple grade 1 winner Emollient —dam of the group 2-placed Peace Charter  and the exciting Raclette—as well as the grade 1-placed Hofburg  and the stakes-winning Courtier . 

Realism has been covered by Make Believe , while the pedigree could be further enhanced by the likes of Deauville and Chantilly winner Raclette, who is on the Classic trail this year for Juddmonte and Andre Fabre. 

The Wildcard

The unbeaten White Marlin (Lot 375A) headlines four wildcards for the sale and the dual-winning son of the late Mastercraftsman should have plenty of admirers as he takes to the sales ring in Newmarket. 

Consigned by Ronald Rauscher on behalf of Joseph O'Brien, White Marlin was a head winner of a maiden at Dundalk in December and followed up in a handicap there in the middle of last month. 

The gelding has an attractive pedigree too, being a half brother to last season's Derrinstown Stud Flying Five (G1) winner Romantic Proposal , while their dam is a winning half sister to the prolific group 1 winner Toylsome.