High Definition Heads Wildcards for Tatts HIT Sale

A quartet of high-class performers from Coolmore are among the 11 wildcards for the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale on Oct. 24-27, headed by Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes (G2) winner and this term's Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) second High Definition . 

The son of Galileo  and the listed-winning Fastnet Rock  mare Palace, also a winner on debut at 2 for Aidan O'Brien, will be offered as lot 754A and will be joined by Grand Prix de Paris (G1) second and Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby (G1) third Wordsworth , a full brother to William Hill St. Leger (G1) hero Kew Gardens and who will be sold as lot 754C. 

The two remaining horses from Coolmore are this year's ARM Holding International Stakes (G3) scorer Aikhal  (754B), another son of Galileo and out of a group-winning Fastnet Rock half sister to Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby (G1) hero Latrobe; and New York City  (754D), a full brother to group-winning sprinter and exciting young sire Invincible Army.

New York City has won twice for O'Brien, including this season's listed Committed Stakes, while he was also fourth in the Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Flying Five Stakes (G1) at the Curragh to the brilliant Highfield Princess. 

The Oct. 19 listed Prix Vulcain scorer Surrey Mist  will appear as lot 754F. The 3-year-old son of Kendargent  won the Deauville race by four lengths for trainer Kevin Philippart de Foy and is from the family of grade 1 winner Alterite. 

Andy Oliver's Stragrane House Stables offers group 3-winning sprinter The Highway Rat  as lot 754E, with the 4-year-old son of Dandy Man  having struck at Dundalk on his most recent start. 

The Sheikh Obaid Al Maktoum-owned Finest Sound , second in the Jebel Hatta Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1) at Meydan in March and a fine third to Modern Games  in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T), will be sold by Godolphin as lot 1001A. 

Completing the wildcards are the Freddie and Martyn Meade-trained Chairman (304A), a progressive son of Almanzor  who has won or placed in six of his seven starts, three-time-winning Havana Gold  gelding Space Tracker, consigned by Richard Hughes' Weathercock House Stables as lot 304B; Tattersalls October Auction and Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes scorer Amichi (1139A) and Juddmonte's Flag Flying (1102A), a son of Starspangledbanner  and a four-length scorer on debut.