ARQANA BACK in BUSINESS with AUGUST HIGHLIGHT the Curtain Rises on the Arqana August Yearling Sale on Saturday
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FRIDAY, 13 AUGUST 2021 ARQANA BACK IN SUESA WILL CLASH WITH GOLDEN PAL IN NUNTHORPE BUSINESS WITH AUGUST Three-time group winner Suesa (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) is going well in advance of a start in the G1 Coolmore Wootton HIGHLIGHT Bassett Nunthorpe S. at York on Aug. 20 where she will face American invader Golden Pal (Uncle Mo). Undefeated in France in four starts, including the G3 Prix Sigy on Apr. 20 and the G3 Prix Texanita on May 17, the 3-year-old was eighth in the G1 Commonwealth Cup S. at Royal Ascot. Since then, the George Strawbridge colourbearer saluted in the G2 King George Qatar S. at Goodwood on July 30. Trainer Francois Rohaut said, AThe filly is ok, so the plan is to come [to York]. It=s very exciting and we are very happy to be in this race. She had a good canter on Tuesday in Deauville where she=s staying. I am very happy with her. AI walked her [on Wednesday afternoon] and she was jumping everywhere and was very fresh and happy to be in Deauville. I hope she=ll be happy to go and to be in York.@ Cont. p9 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Haras de Montaigu=s Galileo half-sister to Derby winner Wings Of Eagles | Emma Berry ORIGINAL SEVEN-FIGURE RACE EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS Alan Carasso chronicles the origin of the Arlington Million. Click or By Emma Berry tap here to go straight to TDN America. DEAUVILLE, FranceBBAs the first full day of showing got underway for Arqana's August Yearling Sale, the sales grounds gradually filled as visitors arrived from Britain and Ireland, along with a planeload of agents and owners who came straight to Normandy from Saratoga. As if to welcome France's premier sale back to its rightful slot in the calendar, the sun also made an appearance as Arqana prepared to bring the curtain up on the European yearling season. The three-day auction begins its run on Saturday, with two select evening sessions after racing concludes next door at the Hippodrome La Touques followed by Monday's 1 p.m. kick-off for the final, longer session. Last year's edition, rebranded as the Select Sale when pandemic restrictions meant it had to be postponed to September, was as ebullient as any of its August predecessors and featured three seven-figure yearlings, led by Ecurie des Monceaux's predictable headline-grabber, the Dubawi (Ire) half-sister to Arc winner Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) and multiple Grade I winner Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), who sold for i2.5 million. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 18 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 13 AUGUST 2021 Arqana August Preview Cont. from p1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Lily's Candle (Fr) (Style Vendome Now known as Pure Dignity (GB), the chestnut filly is in {Fr}), and the latter's half-sister by Frankel (GB) appears early in training in Newmarket with Roger Varian for HH Shaikh Nasser the Saturday session as lot 16. Al Khalifa and KHK Racing. "This is the diamond for us, there are not many chances to There is no yearling from her have a Frankel around the illustrious dam Starlet's Sister farm," said Felix Lepeudry, who (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the returned to his family's stud in catalogue this year, but we can January following stints in once again expect the team Newmarket as assistant trainer behind Ecurie des Monceaux to to both Roger Varian and Marco play a leading role at France's Botti." premier yearling auction. Its Further top-class claims 38-strong draft will be one of close-up in the family are made the first to take to the ring when by Lys Gracieux (Jpn) (Heart's it offers lot 3, a Lope De Vega Cry {Jpn}), whose four (Ire) half-brother to the G1 Group/Grade 1 wins include the Haskell Invitational winner Coil Arima Kinen and the Cox Plate (Point Given) and G1 Hollywood and who shares her grandam, Derby winner Chiropractor the Tourgeville foundation mare (Kitten's Joy). Lot 16 is a daughter of Frankel out of Golden Lily Miller's Lily (Fr), with this filly. The Lepeudry family's Elevage Arqana In yard B, an elegant grey de Tourgeville has been well daughter of Galileo (Ire) drew represented by graduates on the international stage in recent plenty of admirers, and it was not just for the fact that she is one years including the likeable Lord Glitters (Fr) (Whipper) and G1 of four yearlings by the late champion sire. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 18 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 13 AUGUST 2021 Arqana August Preview Cont. and is a half-sister to Godolphin's recent G2 Superlative S winner Lot 120, offered by her breeder Haras de Montaigu, is also a Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). half-sister to the 2017 Derby winner Wings Of Eagles (Ire), and Among a slightly larger and well presented draft from she is not the only sibling to a Classic winner catalogued for this Ballylinch Stud is one of the sale's rarities, a filly by Shadai Stud's weekend. Haras du Logis St Lord Kanaloa (Jpn), whose Germain presents lot 111, a offspring include the Ribchester (Ire) half-sister to the outstanding dual G1 Japan Cup farm's 2020 G1 Poule d'Essai des and G1 Tenno Sho victrix Pouliches winner Dream And Do Almond Eye (Jpn). In early as lot (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}), who is now 19, the Merry Fox Stud-bred filly among the broodmare band at is the second foal of the GIII Japan's Northern Farm and is Robert G Dick Memorial S also from the immediate family winner Guilty Twelve (Giant's of treble Group 1-winning miler Causeway), whose first foal is a Charm Spirit (Ire). filly by Deep Impact (Jpn). Just a few doors down from Arqana's Freddy Powell, who the Ribchester filly in T yard is a flew back in with the American Kingman (GB) filly (lot 62) bred clients from Saratoga on by Jose Delmotte's Haras Wednesday, pointed to the d'Haspel who boasts one of the Lord Kanaloa is the sire of record for lot 19, a Merry Fox Stud-bred filly diversity of this year's catalogue. best updates in the book. The Arqana He said, "Our advertising statuesque filly is the third foal campaign says >More than just of the Observatory (GB) mare Needleleaf (GB), a sister to business as usual', and we really feel we have a very strong band Juddmonte's G1 Haycock Sprint Cup winner African Rose (GB), of horses.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 18 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 13 AUGUST 2021 Arqana August Preview Cont. Free Robert! Following Hubie de Burgh's tale in yesterday's TDN of the He added, AThere are a lot of new families in the prominent bloodstock agent who was thrown in the clink catalogueBBpedigrees that we are overnight some years ago for not usually selling in flicking the vees at the flics, DeauvilleBBand I think that is a Robert Nataf decided to out wonderful advertisement for the himself as the agent in question investment of the French breeders and provided a clarification of the over the last few years." story. He added, "Of course there are "I actually did it twice, each time the big names like Etreham and the police drove past, and then I Monceaux but there are a number hid under the table," he recalled of other farms who have invested of the incident which took place to buy mares and fillies and they 21 years ago. "Then Paul Webber are sending them to good stallions told them where I was hiding and around Europe. We are all quite they took me away." excited about it. Nataf even has a fond memento We had about 55 people on the Hubie de Burgh & Robert Nataf of his run in with the law framed plane, including around 25 with the >Free Robert= campaign poster | Emma Berry in his office after Webber American agents or owners. launched a >Free Robert' campaign and got his colleagues to sign Travelling has not been fun in the last year and we wanted to up to the cause. make it easy for everyone, to create some positive dynamism Listening in to the account, Charlie Gordon-Watson promised and make it easier for people to invest." an even more lurid story for tomorrow's TDN. Watch this space. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 18 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 13 AUGUST 2021 MEGALLAN REIGNS IN SALISBURY FEATURE out once gaining a narrow advantage with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining to assert by a length and a nose from Sir Busker (Ire) Hampered in the straight when 12th contesting Chantilly=s (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) and Perotto (GB) (New Bay {GB}). June 6 G1 Prix du Jockey Club last time, Anthony Oppenheimer=s AHe did well dropping to a homebred 3-year-old colt mile, he enjoyed the [good] Megallan (GB) (Kingman {GB}) ground and we=re delighted,@ gained some measure of said Thady Gosden. AHe ran a recompense with a career-high great race [behind subsequent win dropping down to a mile G1 Irish Derby and G1 Grand for Thursday=s G3 D & N Prix de Paris winner Hurricane Construction Sovereign S. at Lane] in the Dante and looked Salisbury. like the winner at one stage, The April-foaled bay had but was obviously beaten by a earlier secured a stakes very good horse. We took him breakthrough when successful to the French Derby and, with in Newcastle=s Apr.