The World's WEDNESDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Yearling Sale SEPTEMBERSALE BEGINS SUNDAY 13 EBN SEPTEMBER.KEENELAND.COM EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com YEARLING SALE SEASON CONTINUES AT ARQANA The star-studded Arqana Select Yearling Sale, held this year in Last year’s Arqana August Yearling Sale-topper at €1,625,000 place of the August Sale, will take place over three sessions, with was this Dubawi filly out of Prudenzia (Dansili). today and tomorrow having a 2:00pm start and Friday’s final day A half-sister to Gr.1 winners Chicquita (Montjeu) beginning at 11:00am. There are 492 catalogued yearlings, with and Magic Wand (Galileo) and now named Philomene, one alphabetical run by dam spread over the first two days and a she won her debut over 1600m at Longchamp on separate run on Friday. Wednesday. Her Galileo half-brother is Lot 199 at the Among the host of close relatives to Classic and Gr.1 winners on Arqana Select Yearling Sale, which begins today. © Arqana offer are a Motivator full-sister to Treve (Lot 269), a Galileo full- brother to Magic Wand and half-brother to Chicquita (Lot 199), a Dubawi half-sister to the seven-time Gr.1 victrix Sistercharlie IN TODAY’S ISSUE... and dual Gr.1 winner Sottsass (Lot 251) and half-brothers to Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winners Precieuse (Lot 4, by Galileo) Spotlight on Arcadia Élevage p18 and Dream And Do (Lot 277, by Gleneagles). The 2019 Arqana August Yearling Sale was a roaring success for Stallion News p20 Haras des Monceaux, which consigned five of the eight highest- Australian News p21 priced lots, incuding the top three. Its Dubawi half-sister to Gr.1 winners Chicquita and Magic Wand went to Godolphin for Stakes Fields p28 €1.625m and the previous yearling into the ring, a Galileo colt Pinhooking Table p31 from the same family, was bought by Mitsu Nakauchida for €1.5m. Are looking for a consignor with a proven track record? +44 (0)7836 671571 (UK mobile) +44 (0)1789 751222 (office) | NOW ACCEPTING MARE ENTRIES FOR DECEMBER [email protected] | A REPUTATION FOR SUCCESS AT COMPETITIVE RATES @tedvoute www.voutesales.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER 2020 The sale achieved a three-point rise in the clearance rate to 75 per cent and a 15 per cent lift in aggregate sales to a record €43,704,000. The average was up by 17 per cent to €187,039 and the median by 16 per cent to €125,000, both figures also sale records. Monceaux sold 29 yearlings for a total of €10,251,000, leading the consignors, while the leading purchasers were Godolphin, whose eight yearlings cost €4,945,000, and Amanda Skiffington, who signed for six lots for an outlay of €2,305,000. The largest consignors this year are Haras des Capucines (49 lots), Haras des Monceaux (40), Haras d’Etreham (31) and La Motteraye (29), while the most numerously-represented sires are Wootton Bassett (34 lots), new boy Almanzor (32), Dabirsim and Siyouni (30 each) and Shalaa (26). FIRST CROP SIRES There are 23 first-crop stallions with yearlings catalogued in the Triple Gr.1 winner Almanzor (Wootton Bassett), sale and we took at look at some of those based in Britain or who stands at Haras d’Etreham and has his first yearlings Ireland prior to the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale last week. Of on offer this autumn. the 14 young sires represented over the next three days who are standing in France or Germany, eight are Classic and/or Gr.1 Vega and his grandam is the Gr.1 Prix de Diane victrix Caerlina winners: (Caerleon). He has five yearlings catalogued. Haras de Bouquetot’s AL WUKAIR (Dream Ahead) enjoyed his Haras d’Etreham’s ALMANZOR, a first-crop son of Wootton finest success in the 2017 Gr.1 Prix Jacques Le Marois, which was Bassett, helped to put his sire’s name on the map when winning one of his four wins and two places from seven outings. An his first three outings up to Listed level at two and then five in a unbeaten Listed winner at two, he also landed the Gr.3 Prix Djebel row at three. He landed a Gr.3 in the spring of 2016, then the Gr.1 before finishing third in the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas. His Listed-placed Prix du Jockey Club and Gr.2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano before half-sister Witches Brew is the dam of Gr.3 winner Antonia De defeating Found and Minding, amongst others, in the Gr.1 Irish Well-bred yearlings set to go under the hammer by MUHAARAR ARQANA DEAUVILLE SELECT SALE SELLING FROM TODAY Lot 25 Lot 46 Lot 147 Filly out of dual Half-sister to Filly out of the Listed-winning miler exceptional Listed-placed AVENUE GABRIEL racemare ENBIHAAR sprinter Consigned by Consigned by MANASAROVA Haras du Cadran Haras du Mézeray Consigned by Haras de Saint Pair Lot 202 Lot 253 Lot 259 Half-brother to dual Three-parts sister Filly out of a Group 3 scorer to Group 1-winning winning half-sister AL JAZI juvenile NAAQOOS to Derby winner Consigned by Consigned by WINGS OF EAGLES Haras de la Louvière Haras du Mézeray Consigned by Haras du Montaigu Lot 478 Filly from the family of Classic-winning milers FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND and POWER Consigned by Haras des Capucines Contact Tom Pennington: +44 (0)7736 019914 | [email protected] or Ellen Bishop +44 (0)7826 205155 | [email protected] Visit our new website www.shadwellstud.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Champion Stakes, and Found was again his closest pursuer next time in the Gr.1 Champion Stakes. A half-brother to two other black-type winners, he has as his grandam the Listed winner Darkara and his family includes fellow Classic winners Darjina and Darsi. He has a large selection of 32 yearlings catalogued over the next three days. BRAMETOT, much the best son of his sire Rajsaman to date, spent his first two seasons at Haras de Bouquetot before moving December to Germany for 2020 and two of his French-born yearlings have been catalogued. A triple winner up to Listed level at two, he started 2017 by winning the Gr.3 Prix de Fontainebleau and Mares followed up in both French Classics, getting up in the last stride to win the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, both by a short head. He is out of a winning half-sister to the multiple Champion Sire Monsun. Haras de Bouquetot’s ECTOT (Hurricane Run) ended his juvenile campaign with four victories in a row, including the Gr.3 Prix des Chênes and then the Gr.1 Critérium International. Successful in the Gr.3 Prix de Fontainebleau on his 2014 reappearance, he was off the track until the autumn, when he won the Gr.2 Prix Niel, and only had three runs again at four, including a third at Gr.3 level. Switched to the US at five, he landed a turf Gr.1 over 1m4f at Belmont Park, beating multiple Gr.1 winner Flintshire by five lengths. The half-brother to the Gr.1- winning miler Most Improved has two yearlings catalogued. Mastercraftsman’s son THE GREY GATSBY raced 28 times from two to six, but surprisingly, given his earnings of some £2.7m, only won four races. They, however, did include the Gr.2 28 Million Guineas+ Dante Stakes, Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club and Gr.1 Irish Champion Mares Since 2014 Stakes at three, and he was second in four more Gr.1s and third in France 3, Ireland 2 yet another. Standing at Haras du Petit Tellier, he is descended from the Gr.1-winning juvenile and twice Classic-placed In 2019 Maximova (Green Dancer), who produced the Gr.1 winners 27 lots sold for 500k gns+ Septieme Ciel and Macoumba. He has seven yearlings France 3, Ireland 0 catalogued. ULTRA, who stands at Haras du Logis, was the French Champion 34 lots sold for 400k gns+ Juvenile of 2015 when his three wins from as many starts included France 6, Ireland 1 the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère. He was a Gr.2 runner-up from two starts at three and scored at Listed level on his only run at 81 lots sold for 200k gns+ four. The chesnut son of Manduro is a half-brother to Gr.3 victrix Synopsis and is a grandson of Gr.2 winner Proskona (Mr Ireland 3 Prospector), from the close family of Gr.1 winner Act One and, “The global thoroughbred industry congregates at Tattersalls in December.” OLLIE TAIT, TWIN HILLS STUD, AUSTRALIA BROODMARES, FILLIES & HORSES IN TRAINING, ETC. Nov. 30 – Dec. 3 ENTRIES CLOSE 14 September ENTER ONLINE www.tattersalls.com Another young sire with his first yearlings for sale is Ultra (Manduro), a Gr.1 winner who stands at Haras du Logis. © Amy Lanigan 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 ❝Wootton Bassett’s Akmaam a New Rising Star On Debut❞ TDN, SEP 5TH t AKMAAM bolts up by 4 lengths on debut in the novice stakes at Ascot on Saturday for Brian Meehan and Hamdan Al Maktoum.