Arc Sale Entries Close Thursday

Entries for Arqana’s Arc sale, the evening of Oct. 3 at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in Paris, close Thursday. In recent years the sale has been a successful spot to offer horses that raced the same day at Longchamp or held entries for the following afternoon’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe card. Some of the horses to achieve high prices at the Arc sale and compete on the same weekend include Glorious Sight (Ire) (Singspiel {Ire}), who made €1.7 million before running in the following day’s G1 Prix de l’Opera; Auvray (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), who last year won the G2 Prix Chaudenay before hammering for €800,000; Crisolles (Fr) (Le Have {Ire}), who last year made €720,000 before running in the G1 Prix de l’Opera; and Silver Pond (Fr) (Act One {GB}), who in 2011 sold for €510,000 the day before running in the Arc.

Arqana has an agreement with France Galop to allow horses holding entries on Arc day to sell with those declarations and to carry the colors of their new owners after being sold at the Arc sale. Vendors also have the option to sell only 50% of the declaration, allowing them to retain half the prize money won on Arc day.