TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 2019 SHALAA FILLY TOPS ARQANA MONDAY GOING SOLO WITH A bay daughter of Haras de Bouquetot=s popular MG1SW ARCADIA ELEVAGE Shalaa (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) led the way during Monday=s penultimate session of the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, as trade stayed relatively steady compared to last year=s edition. Sold as lot 787 from Haras de Castillon, the Castillon Bloodstock and Tina Rau Bloodstock-bred February foal was knocked down to Nicolas Lefevre of Equos Racing International and Broadhurst Agency=s Laurent Benoit for €87,000. AI have bought her in association with Laurent Benoit for a group of clients, with a view to offer her at the yearling sales,@ said Lefevre. AShe is a half-sister to a black-type winner from an interesting Quesnay family and I like Anabaa as a broodmare sire. Shalaa=s production seems very promising, so we have a lot to look forward to.@ Cont. p2 Antoine Bellanger chats with Alayna Cullen about his new venture, Arcadia Elevage. Click above to view the interview. | Sue Finley IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Alayna Cullen KENTUCKY COMMISSION VOTES FOR LASIX A certain amount of admiration is due those who start their own enterprises, especially in an industry that relies on a PHASE-OUT four-legged speed machine to keep the wheels turning. There The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission took another step Monday towards the partial ban of race-day Lasix starting in has been an influx of new operations in the last year across 2020. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Europe and notable among them is Arcadia Elevage, owned and operated by Antoine Bellanger, former yearling manager at Ecurie des Monceaux who have been leading vendor at the Arqana August Yearling Sale since 2012. "I saw a position at Ecurie des Monceaux, which was very young at that time, not very small but smaller than now,@ recounts Bellanger. AAnd I felt something about the farm, I had a good feeling about the farm. So I took the position. At first we had only maybe four or five yearlings and I used to do everything myself. After 11 years, we sold 60 or 70 yearlings with a lot of staff. So I saw that progression year after year.@ Surely watching an operation like Monceaux grow will stand Bellanger in good stead, but the international experience gained by the 33 year-old Loire Valley native will also have a knock-on effect to his own operation's success. Said Bellanger, "I grew up in the breeding industry; my parents have a small farm in the Loire Valley and I decided to make my career in the breeding industry. I worked six months in France for a small National Hunt breeder called Patrick Boiteau. Then I decided to travel, so I went to Derrinstown Stud in Ireland for a year and a half.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 10 DECEMBER 2019 started well. The goal is to keep going on the way we started, keep it simple, to focus on horses and make sure all the clients are happy." Arcadia Elevage's inaugural sale will hopefully be an early Christmas present to Bellanger and his partner Aline Giraud of Aga Khan Studs, but whatever the outcome, momentum is building for the fledgling operation that has its sights set on becoming a leading force among French farms. Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale Day 3 Cont. from p1 The weanling=s dam, SW Mytographie (Fr) (Anabaa), was German Group 1 winner Khan | Zuzanna Lupa picked up for €12,000 by Castillon Bloodstock during the 2018 Arqana February Mixed Sale. The filly is a half-sister to listed Arcadia Elevage Cont. from p1 winner Mutin (Fr) (Kentucky Dynamite). Group 2 winner He added, AI did pretty much everything, but from there I Mythical Magic (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) and Group 3 scorer Esentepe learned more about the yearling side and I liked it. I decided to (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) are under the winning second dam. go to America to work for Lane's End Farm...and I learned a lot Castillon also offered Algtaah (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) (lot about organisation because there are a lot of horses, a lot of 758) carrying to another Bouquetot stallion in Zelzal (Fr) (Sea staff, but it runs smoothly day after day because the The Stars {Ire}). The winning 7-year-old hammered at €57,000 to organisation is perfect." Blandford Bloodstock=s Stuart Boman, after receiving a well- Any possible trepidation felt by Bellanger since departing his timed update, when her No Nay Never juvenile half-brother role at Monceaux will have faded away this past week at Wichita (Ire) ran third in the valuable G1 Dewhurst S. this fall. Arqana, given the support he has received from key industry SW Lumiere Noire (Fr) (Dashing Blade {GB}), a half to GI members. That crucial support he wholeheartedly acknowledges Manhattan H. victor Desert Blanc (GB) (Desert Style {Ire}), could make or break his business. produced Algtaah. "Well, first of all Darius Racing and Holger Faust have trusted Coming in second on the balance sheet was Haras d=Etreham=s me to sell a stallion prospect [Khan (Ger) (Santiago {Ger}), lot Petite Noblesse (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}) in foal to resident stallion 829] on Tuesday.@ said Bellanger. AOn Saturday, David Redvers Wootton Bassett (GB). Cont. p3 asked me to buy a Dark Angel (Ire) colt who I really liked and I bought another foal as well for clients. It's exciting and I feel like it's been a good booster. I want to do a good job for these people to give back the trust that they have given me." Of the stallion prospect that will be Arcadia Elevage's first horse to sell at Arqana, Bellanger thinks he could be the real deal. "Khan is a very interesting prospect,@ Bellanger said. AHe is a Group 1 winner first of all and he's a very, very nice individual. He is also a brother to Kamsin (Ger) who is a proven National Hunt sire in France. I think he ticks all the boxes for breeders." There is an honesty and kindness to Bellanger that instantly puts you in his corner. You can tell that the decision to set up Arcadia Elevage has not been taken lightly and that there is definitely a desire to build a business that looks after its clients and horses to the best of its ability. "I'm feeling good and I don't regret doing it. The farm used to be a cattle farm so we did a lot of work on it. It took a long time to clean it and to do the fencing and the buildings, but it's TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 10 DECEMBER 2019 ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE Vice President, International Operations Gary King DAY 3 Twitter: @garykingTDN SESSION TOTALS 2019 2018 [email protected] $ Catalogued 303 298 + 1.732.320.0975 $ Number Offered 277 267 $ Number Sold 212 211 International Editor $ Not Sold 65 56 Kelsey Riley $ Clearance Rate 76.5% 79% $ High Price €87,000 €55,000 Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN $ Gross €2,089,000 €2,072,500 [email protected] $ Average (% change) €9,854 (+0.3%) €9,822 $ Median (% change) €6,500 (NC) €6,500 European Editor Emma Berry CUMULATIVE 2019 2018 Twitter: @collingsberry $ Catalogued 827 829 [email protected] $ Number Offered 734 729 $ Number Sold 580 562 $ Not Sold 154 167 Associate International Editor $ Clearance Rate 79% 77.1% Heather Anderson $ High Price €1,300,000 €1,100,000 Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN $ Gross €32,136,500 €30,247,000 $ Average (% change) €55,408 (+3%) €53,820 Marketing Manager $ Median (% change) €20,000 (NC) €20,000 Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale Day 3 Cont. Contributing Editor Mandore International Agency, acting for Haras du Cadran, Alan Carasso stretched to €74,000 for the 10-year-old (lot 703), whose dam is Twitter: @EquinealTDN a half-sister to Classic winner and established sire Lope de Vega Cafe Racing (Ire) (Shamardal), as well as GSW & G1SP Lady Frankel (GB) Sean Cronin (Frankel {GB}), GSW Bal de la Rose (Ire) (Cadeaux Genereux Tom Frary {GB})Bthe dam of Group 1 winner Danceteria (Fr) (Redoute=s [email protected] Choice {Aus}), and SW & MGSP Lord of the Land (Ire) (Shamardal). Irish Correspondent AI know the family a little bit now because I had the Daithi Harvey opportunity to buy her yearling in November,@ said Mandore=s Nicolas de Watrigant. AShe=s a lovely filly with the same cross as Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield La Cressonniere (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}). We=re very hopeful for her. John Berry | Kevin Blake Petite Noblesse was bought for a partnership between Alain Jathiere and Pierre Talvard, and she=ll now go to Haras du Cadran. She=s a lovely daughter of Galileo from a great family, that of Lope de Vega, and she=s in-foal to Wootton Bassett, IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY which is great too.@ LONHRO’S DOMINANCE SPANS GENERATIONS Artemis Bloodstock was in action early on Monday, shelling Champion racehorse and champion sire Lonhro (Aus) out €45,000 for Equity Card (Fr) (Dubai Destination) (lot 545) for (Octagonal {NZ}) celebrates his 21st birthday on Tuesday.. Click Gorlsdorf Stud. Cont. p4 or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 10 DECEMBER 2019 Leading Vendors by Aggregate Leading Buyers by Aggregate Vendor Lots Avg.