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Prix de l'Opera winner Barnavara (Calyx) and Listed-winning sprinter Saratoga Special (Mehmas) are set to shine at the upcoming Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Both fillies are trained by Jessica Harrington and have carried the colours of Alpha Racing to some notable successes this year. Few fillies boast as progressive a profile as Barnavara, who went from strength to strength this season, culminating with that victory at the highest level in the Prix de l'Opera.  She is one of the standout offerings at the Sceptre Sessions and...

Group 1-winning sprinter Arizona Blaze (Sergei Prokofiev) has been retired by Amo Racing and will stand at the Irish National Stud next year. His fee has been set at €12,500.    An impressive winner of the first two-year-old maiden of the season in March 2024, Arizona Blaze quickly established himself with a defeat of the subsequent Classic winner Camille Pissarro in the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh in May.   Over the remainder of his juvenile career, he continued to match the best two-year-olds around with a succession of...

Sea The Stars, who has headed the Aga Khan Studs roster for 16 years and is the sire of this year's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Daryz, has had his fee for 2026 raised to a career high of €300,000, from €250,000. Top of the list of the remaining four Aga Khan Studs stallions, all standing at Haras de Bonneval in Normandy, is Siyouni, whose runners in 2025 included Zarigana, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. Having stood at €200,000 in 2025, Siyouni's fee has been reduced to...

Frankel will once again lead the Juddmonte roster at £350,000 while new addition Lead Artist, a Group 1 winner in the Lockinge Stakes, will stand for £12,500 in 2026. Frankel added 24 individual stakes winners to his record in 2025, 13 of them at Group level. He has now sired an extraordinary 40 individual Group 1 winners and stands as the most successful active sire of Northern Hemisphere Classic winners, with 12 to his name, including 2025 Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Lake Victoria and dual-Classic winner Minnie Hauk. His success...

Group 1 sire Sands Of Mali will be sold through Tattersalls Ireland on a sealed bid basis under the direction of sales company CEO Simon Kerins. The 10-year-old son of Panis stood for a private fee at Ballyhane Stud in Ireland this year. A winner of the G1 British Champions Sprint Stakes and three other group races, Sands Of Mali has 43 winners from 92 runners worldwide (47%). His five stakes winners include G1 Commonwealth Cup heroine Time For Sandals, while G3 Ballycorus Stakes heroine Copacabana Sands is his other...

A total of eight wildcards have been added to the Arqana Autumn Sale catalogue. The trio of Flat performers are led by Group 3 winner Columbus (Oasis Dream) (lot 342), who is rated 111 and from the family of Group 1 winners Coronet (Dubawi) and Aussie Rules. G3 Prix Perth third Chibitty (Zelzal) (lot 355) is a three-time winner this season, while listed winner Tipinso (Victor Ludorum) (lot 365) is a grandson of Group 1 winner Molly Malone (Lomitas). For the National Hunt sphere are five more wildcards led by...

Haras d'Etreham has announced the fees for its roster of seven Flat stallions, which is led by Hello Youmzain at €25,000, down from €40,000 last year. The line-up is bolstered by the introduction of Lope De Vega's Group 2-winning son Beauvatier, one of four new stallions announced in France to date for 2026, who will stand his first season at €7,000. Classic winners Persian King and Metropolitan are advertised at €15,000 and €12,000 respectively, while City Light, Onesto and Victor Ludorum are all priced at €10,000. "We are proud to...

Bleary-eyed buyers might well have thought the ever-expanding sale season had finally gotten the better of them when they saw a spotted pony racing star by Zarak being offered under the hammer at Osarus on Friday. However, fear not, had you contemplated checking yourself into the nearest clinic, because you haven't gone completely cuckoo. The filly in question goes by the name of Judith Leyster and, according to Georges Rimaud, who spent 25 years at the helm of the French division of the Aga Khan Studs, the six-year-old resembled something...

Qatar Racing's 2,000 Guineas hero Kameko will stand for a reduced fee of £15,000 at Tweenhills Farm and Stud next year, with the G1 Sussex Stakes winner Lightning Spear joining him on the roster at £3,000 (from £5,000). In 2025, Kameko covered 136 mares at a fee of £20,000, having been represented by 14 winners from his first crop of juvenile runners in Europe in 2024, including the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner Wimbledon Hawkeye and Qatar Racing homebred New Century, who was successful in the GI Natalma Stakes at...

No Nay Never heads the Coolmore roster for the 2026 breeding season at €100,000, while the G1 Coral-Eclipse and G1 Irish Champion Stakes winner Delacroix, a son of Dubawi and the outstanding racemare Tepin, has been introduced at €40,000. Only the late Wootton Bassett has sired more individual Group-winning juveniles in Europe this year than No Nay Never, whose standout two-year-olds have included the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine True Love and the G2 Norfolk Stakes winner Charles Darwin. The G1 City Of York Stakes scorer Never So Brave has...

The Thoroughbred Breeders' Association (TBA) has announced the line-up for its annual Forum at Tattersalls on Thursday, November 27. Entitled Building Bloodlines; Broodmare Evaluation and Purchase, it will take place on the 'dark day' of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, starting at 5pm. Free to attend, the event will examine the process of buying a mare and building foundation bloodlines, with consideration of pedigree, racing form, physical attributes and setting a budget. The expert panel will be hosted by Gina Bryce and consists of Newsells Park Stud general manager Julian Dollar, TBA...

The G2 Flying Childers Stakes winner Aesterius will become the latest son of Mehmas to join the stallion ranks and has been retired to Bearstone Stud for the 2026 breeding season. He will stand at a fee of £6,500. Bred by Sean Maguire and owned by Wathnan Racing, Aesterius also won the G3 Prix d'Arenberg at Longchamp and Sandown's Listed Dragon Stakes, as well as finishing runner-up in the G3 Molecomb Stakes during a busy juvenile campaign in 2024. A £380,000 breeze-up purchase by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, he...