Arqana Sales Ring
The Elie de Brignac sales complex in Deauville will host the October Yearling Sale, the third ARQANA yearling sale. The catalogue is now available on www.arqana.com and includes 600 yearlings. The sale takes place over four days, Monday 20th to Thursday 23rd October 2014, with the Monday session comprising 185 lots and representing the sale’s selected Part 1, while Part 2 will include the three following sessions, comprising 145, 155 and 116 lots respectively. Almost 100% of the yearlings catalogued are eligible for the owners’ premiums in France.
Year on year, the October Yearling Sale is proving an outstanding source of Gr1 winners. Since June 2013, graduates have annexed nine Gr1 races, while the tally for the sole 2014 season already reaches five Gr1’s. The event has an ideal new flag-bearer in the unbeaten AVENIR CERTAIN, who was sold by Coulonces Consignment to trainer Jean-Claude Rouget for €45,000 two years ago. The first-crop daughter of Le Havre is perfect in six outings including the Gr1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1,000 Guineas), Gr1 Prix de Diane (French Oaks) and Gr2 Prix de la Nonette.
Another Classic hero to have been snapped up at the October Yearling Sale is THE GREY GATSBY, who followed an eye-catching success in the Gr2 Dante Stakes with an equally impressive display in the Gr1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby). The son of Mastercraftsman was sold by Haras du Cadran to Stephen Hillen for €24,000 and only found the great AUSTRALIA too good in the Gr1 Juddmonte International Stakes last time out.
Arqana October Yearling Sale graduate Treve
SPIRITJIM boasts seven wins from nine starts and looked like he wasn’t stretching his limits when producing a devastating turn of foot to take the Gr1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on his latest outing so far. The four-year-old Galileo half-brother to Classic victor SILVER FROST topped the 2011 October Yearling Sale when knocked down to MAB Agency for €310,000, having been consigned by its breeder Haras des Sablonnets.
CHARM SPIRIT, who landed the Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat on Bastille Day this year, was bred and consigned by Ecurie des Monceaux at the 2012 renewal, when trainer Freddy Head bought him for €140,000.
Last but not least, the fillies TREVE and VORDA, who topped the standings of their respective generations in 2013, both went through the October Yearling Sale. The mighty Treve went on to register a rare Diane-Vermeille-Arc hat-trick and Vorda to take the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes and run a gallant 2nd in the Gr1 Prix Morny.
This year alone, 50 individual graduates of the October Yearling Sale have posted 80 Group/Listed performances – including 27 wins – while the class of 2013, now two-year-olds, have already registered 180 wins or places.
Yearlings by the most coveted stallions
Sea The Stars progeny on offer
The catalogue features offspring by proven sires such as Acclamation, American Post, Authorized, Cape Cross, Dalakhani, Danehill Dancer, Dansili, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Dutch Art, Elusive City, Elusive Quality, Exceed And Excel, Fastnet Rock, Galileo, Giant’s Causeway, High Chaparral, Iffraaj, Invincible Spirit, Kendargent, King’s Best, Lawman, Le Havre, Lope de Vega, Makfi, Manduro, Medicean, Monsun, Muhtathir, Nayef, New Approach, Oasis Dream, Orpen, Pivotal, Peintre Celebre, Rock Of Gibraltar, Sea The Stars, Teofilo, Zamindar, etc.
The new generation is also well represented, with first-crop yearlings by Canford Cliffs, Cape Blanco, Dream Ahead, Poet’s Voice, Pour Moi, Roderic O’Connor, Soul City, Wootton Bassett and Zoffany. And there is a good bunch of yearlings by up-and-coming sires such as French champion 2yo sire elect Siyouni (16 lots). The Aga Khan homebred has notably sired the smart filly ERVEDYA, winner of the Gr3 Prix de Cabourg and 3rd in the Gr1 Prix Morny at Deauville.
Quality pedigrees aplenty
Sahpresa – Sun Chariot Stakes Hat Trick
The 2014 catalogue is particularly rich in black type pedigrees, starting with lot 2, from Haras de la Pérelle, who is the second foal, by Dubawi, out of the Gr1 E.P. Taylor Stakes heroine REGGANE. Lot 12 from Coulonces Consignment is a full sister to the multiple Group winner and Gr1-placed JOANNA (High Chaparral). Lot 21, from Ecurie des Monceaux, hails from the first crop of the top class sprinter Dream Ahead and is a half-brother to SAHPRESA, who won three renewals of the Gr1 Sun Chariot Stakes. Lot 48 from Jedburgh Stud will be one of the very last yearlings by German super sire Monsun to go through a sales ring, and this filly is out of the Gr2 Prix de Sandringham scorer ALL IS VANITY. Lot 52 from Haras de la Reboursière et de Montaigu is a full brother to ALTERITE (Literato), a Gr1 winner in America and multiple Group winner in France. Other yearlings with high-profile siblings include lot 105, from Haras de la Pérelle, a full brother to Falmouth Stakes (Gr1) winner GIOFRA (Dansili); lot 142, from Coulonces Consignment, a Teofilo half-brother to Classic victor and new sire sensation LE HAVRE; lot 146, from Haras de Grandcamp, a King’s Best half-sister to Prix du Cadran (Gr1) heroine MOLLY MALONE; lot 160, from Coulonces Consignment, a full brother to Prix du Jockey Club and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (in Australia) hero RELIABLE MAN. Lot 182 from Ecurie des Monceaux is a Galileo colt, the third foal out of the Gr.3 Prix de Royaumont scorer QUETSCHE.
Finally, several yearlings are out of young, well-related mares such as half-sisters to STACELITA (lot 9 from Haras des Capucines, a filly by Pour Moi), SEVILLE (lot 18 from Haras d’Etreham, a filly by Rip Van Winkle), GLORIOUS SIGHT (lot 43, a filly by the same sire and from the same consignor), ANGARA (lot 45 from La Motteraye Consignment, a colt by Giant’s Causeway), DUTCH ART (lot 47 from Haras du Quesnay, a colt by Medicean), DREAM AHEAD (lot 117 from Haras du Mézeray, a filly by Holy Roman Emperor), GREY LILAS (lot 155 from Haras des Capucines, a colt by Holy Roman Emperor), etc.
Catalogue on line at www.arqana.com
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