Lot 178
They say save the best to last, but in the case of yesterday’s second session of Arqana’s August Sale it was almost last as, five lots from the end of play, an Invincible Spirit (Ire) half-brother to G1 Irish Oaks winner Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) (lot 178 – pedigree / video footage) broke the million-euro barrier when selling to Mayfair Speculators for €1.1 million.
The show was stolen by consignors Ecurie des Monceaux and the colt became the third offspring of Prudenzia (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) to sell for a seven-figure sum in Deauville in as many years, with her two previous fillies by Galileo (Ire) having made €1.1 million and €1 million, respectively.
Mayfair Speculators’ representative Derek Brugman, who was sitting with agent Peter Doyle, said, “In my opinion he was the best colt in the sale. Just a lovely horse – probably still a little bit immature but we have time, and after buying so many fillies we needed to buy a colt as we might need a stallion later on, and hopefully that’s what he’ll be when he retires. Like the others he will stay in France to be trained. We want to expand in Europe and France is a good place with the premiums and the program.”
The sale concludes on Monday, 18 August 2014 and the catalogue can be viewed here.
(source: TDN)
