Champions Day the only option for Tamfana before sale

Tamfana may have run her last race for current connections before her date with the auctioneer at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

The four-year-old has taken syndicate owners Quantum Leap Racing on a brilliant journey over the past three seasons, developing from a shrewdly-bought €20,000 purchase into a Group One winner.

Trained by David Menuisier, most recently she contested the Prix de l’Opera at ParisLongchamp during the Arc meeting, and though just out of the money in sixth place she was only beaten three-quarters of a length, on her first start since the Lockinge in May.

When she goes through the ring she will be a fascinating lot considering her half-sister sold for over 1.5million guineas at the same event last year, despite having run only once and reached none of the heights Tamfana has.

There may be one final roll of the dice first, however, as the British Champions Day meeting at Ascot is not ruled out, but either way she has already done more than enough in her racing career.

“I thought she ran tremendously after a lay-off, I think she just got tired in the last strides,” said Eamonn O’Connor of Quantum Leap.

“If you’d have told me before that she’d be beaten only three-quarters of a length I’d have taken it if I hadn’t known that would mean finishing sixth!

“No excuses at all, she ran a great race and she doesn’t owe us a thing. We don’t know if she’ll run again for us, but she’s proven she’s still a racehorse and I’m delighted with her – and for her.

“She’s in the December sale at Tattersalls, whether there’s another run for her or not, I don’t know yet. There’s only Ascot left now and we won’t make a decision on that until late in the day.

“David will have a good look at her over the next week or so, but if that was her swansong, she hasn’t let us down.”

He went on: “Her only poor performance was the Lockinge, when she knocked into herself and that finished the race for her, other than that she has been there or thereabouts every single time.

“She’s been a tremendously versatile horse with a great temperament as well, all the jockeys say that they can put her anywhere in the race.

“You can send her forward, you can hold her up, she stays, it’s pretty brilliant to have a horse who tries for you like that.”