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It's become customary to see the offspring of Le Havre (Fr) out in front on the racecourse and one of his daughters led the way during the first session of the Osarus September Yearling Sale until having to share the limelight late in the day when a filly from the first crop of George Vancouver matched her price of €80,000. The latter (lot 145), sold by her breeder Hubert Honoré, is a half-sister to G1 Doomben Cup winner Pornichet (FR) (Vespone {Ire}), who started his career in his native France,...

Earning a tilt at the G1 Prix du Jockey Club with an impressive win in the Listed Prix de l'Avre over this course and distance May 23, Talismanic ran a solid race to be fourth in that 10 1/2-furlong Chantilly Classic June 5 which has taken on another dimension now that Almanzor (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) has gone on to greater things. Fifth but beaten just under three lengths in the July 14 G1 Grand Prix de Paris staged here last time, the dark bay returned from his summer sojourn...

2nd-SAN, £6,000, Mdn, 9-14, 2yo, 8f 14yT, 1:43.51, gd. +ATTY PERSSE (IRE) (c, 2, Frankel {GB}--Dorcas Lane {GB} {SW & MGSP-Eng, GSP-Fr, $120,205}, by Norse Dancer {Ire}) was well away from the two box and found a smooth rhythm along the fence in third through the early fractions of this debut. Angling into clear runway with three furlongs remaining, the well-backed 10-11 favourite was soon under urging and kept on strongly for three stiff reminders up the hill to score by 1 3/4 lengths from Hamada (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}),...

Off since winning the May 11 G3 Musidora S. at York, So Mi Dar defied any rustiness and an eight-pound penalty to score with real authority and suggest a profitable autumn campaign is ahead of her. Going two better than her celebrated dam Dar Re Mi when impressively winning that prestigious Oaks trial which followed a success on her seasonal return in Epsom's Investec Derby Trial also over this trip Apr. 20, the homebred picked up where she left off in this competitive affair. Held on to in third early...

G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Jet Setting (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) could be supplemented for the G2 Dubai 100 Challenge S. at Newmarket Oct. 7. The bay, who was bought by the China Horse Club out of the Goffs London Sale for £1.3-million after her Classic score, was sixth in the G1 Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S. at Leopardstown last weekend, the same position she filled in Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation S. in her previous start. If supplemented for the Challenge S., she will revert to the seven-furlong trip over...

Bill Gredley's Big Orange (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) is set for a return trip to Australia for the Nov. 1 G1 Emirates Melbourne Cup, the race in which he finished fifth last year, trainer Michael Bell told the Daily Mail. The 5-year-old gelding has been on the board in all four starts this year. After finishing second to Vazirabad (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}) in the G2 Dubai Gold Cup in March, Big Orange was third behind fellow Cup-bound expatriate Exosphere (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) in the G2 Jockey Club S....

Dual Derby winner Harzand (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who could manage only eighth after being struck into during the running of the G1 Qipco Irish Champion S. last weekend, has been given the go-ahead by trainer Dermot Weld to contest the Oct. 2 G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Weld had reported the Aga Khan homebred to be lame after the Irish Champion, but told the Daily Mirror on Wednesday the colt is making "good progress." "We will have him back on Monday--that's the plan," Weld said. "He...

This year's dual group-winning 2-year-old Mehmas (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}–Luciana {GB}, by Machiavellian) will enter stud next year at Tony and Anne O'Callaghan's Tally-Ho Stud after the farm purchased a 50% interest in the Al Shaqab Racing-owned colt. Mehmas is likely to make his final start in the G1 Middle Park S. Sept. 24. Trained by Richard Hannon, the bay has yet to finish worse than second in seven outings. He broke his maiden at first asking at Chester May 5 and, after following up with a Newbury conditions win and...

Adaay (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}--Lady Lucia {Ire}, by Royal Applause {GB}), a winner of the GII Hungerford S. and GII Sandy Lane S. in 2015, will join the Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion roster in 2017 as a joint venture with Shadwell Stud, the farm announced. Bred by L. Fox, the Irish-bred was a €54,000 purchase by Tally Ho Stud out of the Goffs November Foal Sale, who later consigned the colt to the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, where he was snapped up by Shadwell for 240,000gns in 2014. He promptly won...

2.40 Sandown, Mdn, £6,000, 2yo, 8f 14yT CAMERONE (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is a half-sister to the 2012 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and 2013 G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast), who debuts as the sole filly taking on colts for Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani and Ralph Beckett. Won in recent years by the subsequent luminaries Masked Marvel (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Dartmouth (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), it also features Bjorn Nielsen's Atty Persse (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), a Roger Charlton-trained son of the G2 Ribblesdale...

The catalogue pages for the 41 horses-in-training that form part of the Wildenstein Dispersal to be offered through Goffs are online. The horses-in-training will be offered upon completion of the Orby yearling sale Sept. 28. The collection includes 2-year-old fillies such as Pavini (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}) (lot 478), an unraced daughter of Group 2 winner Peinture Rare (Ire), herself a half-sister to champion 3-year-old and sire Peintre Celebre; Poana (Fr) (New Approach {Ire}) (lot 480), an unraced daughter of G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Porlezza (Fr) (Sicyos), who is...

While the world's largest yearling sale continues in Lexington, one of the newest auctions in the yearling calendar, the Osarus September Sale, returns today for its ninth edition. From just from 46 horses sold for a total of €464,700 back at the first sale in 2008, the sale has continued to progress and last year turnover reached €3,897,500 for 191 sold from 247 on offer (79%). The 2015 renewal also posted advances in both the average (€21,202) and the median (€18,000). Now held over two days, this year's sale has...