The World's FRIDAY, 11TH 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 TRIO OF SEVEN-FIGURE LOTS STAR AT ARQANA Given the turbulent nature of this year, there is comfort in the familiar, and yesterday’s second session of the Arqana Select Sale felt like a return to something approaching normal, with a trio of Lot 251, a Dubawi half-sister to top performers Sottsass seven-figure lots brightening the session, headed by a €2.5m and Sistercharlie, topped trade at the Arqana Select daughter of Dubawi, writes Amy Bennett. Yearling Sale yesterday when purchased for €2.5m. Yesterday’s catalogue certainly contained the blockbuster lots © Zuzanna Lupa of the three-day auction, but away from the top end, buyers still exercised a degree of caution, with the clearance rate finishing at IN TODAY’S ISSUE... 68 per cent. However, the top end of the market helped the aggregate to €16,625,000 for 76 lots sold, for an average of Goffs UK Yorton Sale Report p9 €218,750 and a median of €100,000. The top lot capped an exceptional day for Henri Bozo’s Écurie Racing Review p15 des Monceaux, which was responsible for four of the top five lots, Pinhooking Table p31 two of which drew final bids of €2m or more. KING’S HARLEQUIN won yesterday’s Prix d’Aumale-Gr.3. Entered in the Prix Marcel Boussac-Gr.1 as is Sunday’s impressive Longchamp winner VIRTUOSITE 30 Group/Stakes winners from his first 3 crops including 2020 Irish Oaks-Gr.1 winner EVEN SO Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: [email protected] www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA SELECT YEARLING SALE – DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 251 f DUBAWI – Starlet’s Sister Écurie des Monceaux Oliver St Lawrence 2,500,000 199 c GALILEO – Prudenzia Écurie des Monceaux MV Magnier 2,000,000 250 c KINGMAN – Speralita Haras des Capucines Godolphin SNC 1,100,000 194 f SIYOUNI – Polygreen Écurie des Monceaux Jean-Claude Rouget 700,000 157 f FRANKEL – Militante Écurie des Monceaux Chauvigny Global Equine 630,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS The progeny of Starlet’s Sister have enjoyed mixed fortunes in the price quickly escalating to seven figures. It evolved into a the sale ring at Arqana, but have more than lived up to three-way tussle between Anthony Stroud for Godolphin, David expectations on the racecourse. Sistercharlie (Myboycharlie) Redvers and Oliver St Lawrence, standing with Fawzi Nass, and it brought only €12,000 in October 2015 but has since recorded was the latter who had the final say at €2.5m. seven Gr.1 victories, while Sottsass (Siyouni) was purchased for “She’s a lovely filly with an exceptional pedigree,” said Nass. “I’ve €340,000 in August three years ago and went on to glory in the bought her for Nasser Al Khalifa, in partnership with KHK Racing. Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club last year, before adding the Gr.1 Prix She’ll come back to England, but we haven’t got a trainer for her yet, Ganay to his tally this year, and he will bid for another top-level but we’ll decide soon. win in the Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes tomorrow. “These types of fillies are very rare and difficult to get because there The latest of Starlet’s Sister’s prized offspring strode into the is an enormous amount of interest in them. We never doubted that ring as Lot 251 and was the subject of a fierce bidding war, with we could get her and we’re delighted to have succeeded.” November Flat Foal & Breeding Stock Sale featuring a new Yearling section 13 - 14 November TOP PRICES ¤78,000, ¤60,000 ¤58,000, ¤50,000 featuring First Season Sire Showcase ENTER ONLINE tattersalls.ie * certain conditions apply 2 for 1 offer* CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 BATED BREATH 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 14 Continuing BLACKTYPE PERFORMERS his rise IN 2020 Sire of lot GROUP6 438 HORSES at the Arqana Deauville Select Sale MAKALOUN CAIRN GORM BREATHTAKING LOOK Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 [email protected] ® www.juddmonte.com SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER 2020 The full-brother to Gr.1 winner Magic Wand (Galileo) was knocked down to MV Magnier for €2m yesterday. © Zuzanna Lupa R ACE Earlier in the session, St Lawrence also signed for the only lot in the catalogue by American Pharoah, going to €320,000 to secure Lot 228 from Haras d’Etreham. The colt is the first foal out of Sea Of Snow (Distorted Humor), BEHIND who won her first two starts for Mark Johnston before finishing third in the Listed (then) Woodcote Stakes. She is a half-sister to the Gr.3 Prix Fille de l’Air winner Powder Snow (Dubawi), as well as the Gr.2-placed Snow (Sea The Moon), and they are out of a three-parts-sister to Lammtarra (Nijinsky), whose unbeaten THE career included the Gr.1 Derby and Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. “He’s a lovely son of American Pharoah with a very good pedigree. We hope that he will be just as good as him,” said Nass. “He’ll go to England, but we haven’t decided who he will be trained by.” SCENES PRUDENZIA SHINES AGAIN Progeny of Prudenzia and her family are a standing dish in the Arqana sale ring, headed by the Gr.1-winning globetrotter Magic 1 4 T H - 1 8 T H Wand (Galileo) selling for €1.4m in 2016 and Philomene (Dubawi) for €1.625m last year, as well as four other six-figure S E P T E M B E R yearlings. As a full-brother to Magic Wand, the latest member of the clan unsurprisingly found plenty of fans waiting for him when he entered the ring as Lot 199. A flurry of bids swiftly boosted the asking price into seven figures, but as the bids slowed down, it For Schedule of was MV Magnier and David Redvers who were left to battle it out. Events and Webinar Registration It was Magnier who won the day and the hammer fell at €2m, the highest price seen at Arqana’s flagship yearling sale since 2015, visit although later surpassed by Lot 251. “He’s a lovely colt that walks very well,” Magnier commented. “He’s from a fantastic family that we have already had a lot of luck #racebehindthescenes | with. Chicquita and Magic Wand have given us a lot of joy on the racetrack, and we hope that he will follow in their footsteps.” Bred by Écurie des Monceaux and Skymarc Farm Inc, the colt is the latest eye-catcher from a stellar family. A full-brother to Magic Wand, who scored a deserved first Gr.1 victory in last year’s Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington, he is also a full-brother to the Gr.3-placed Je Ne Regretterien, and is a three-parts-brother to the Gr.1 Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita (Montjeu), purchased by Magnier for €6m at Goffs, and a half-brother to Philomene (Dubawi), who opened her account on debut at Longchamp last CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 5 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER 2020 week. A Listed winner herself, Prudenzia has proved a goldmine for Monceaux along with her half-sister Pacifique (Montjeu), dam of Parabellum (Dubawi), the last lot to sell for €2m or more as a yearling at Arqana. GODOLPHIN SWOOP FOR KINGMAN Godolphin took home the top lot of the opening session of the sale on Wednesday when paying €620,000 for a daughter of Dubawi, but yesterday the operation cast the net wider to secure a Kingman colt for €1,100,000, sold just one lot before the day’s top lot. Consigned as Lot 250 by Haras des Capucines, the colt is out of the unraced Speralita (Frankel), who may not have made it to the races herself, but comes with a stellar page, being a half-sister to Stacelita (Monsun). That mare notched up six top-level victories, scoring on both sides of the Atlantic, with her wins Live now! including the Gr.1 Prix de Diane and the Gr.1 Beverly D Stakes, before going on to produce a Classic scorer in the Japanese filly Soul Stirring (Frankel). Our unique website hits the ground running Godolphin purchased Lot 250, a son of Kingman out of a Lots for everyone in Race Horse half-sister to multiple Gr.1 winner Stacelita , for €1.1m. © Zuzanna Lupa Trader’s Catalogue 1 BERS Check out our first MONCEAUX RIDING HIGH catalogue, register to bid, and just Écurie des Monceaux has been a regular at the top of the table at start bidding Arqana but even by the operation’s own high standards, yesterday was a day to remember. SELLERS Go online and make your As well as consigning the top two lots of the sale, Monceaux was also responsible for the second-most pricey filly of the sale, bookings for Catalogue 2 now Lot 194, who was signed for by Jean-Claude Rouget at €700,000, on behalf of Gainesway in Kentucky.