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Group winner Belle Promesse (Fr) (Fuisse {Fr}) (lot 200) is a late addition to the Arqana February Mixed Sale, which takes place on Wednesday, Feb. 12. A winner of the G3 Prix Christian de Tredern and the Listed Prix d'Arles over hurdles at Auteuil, the mare is out of Promets Moi (Fr) (Satri {Ire}), herself a winner at Auteuil and a half-sister to black-type horse Like A Player (Fr) (Lucky Dream {Fr}). This is the family of group winners Tarla (Fr) (Lavirco {Ger}), Bandito Conti (Fr) (Saint Des Saints {Fr}),...

Thomas Huet will join Arqana's bloodstock team from February 17. Based at Saint-Cloud, he will be in charge of the prospection and nominations of horses-in-training for the sales, as well as the coordination and promotion of catalogues in that area. He will also be the point of contact for the Arqana Series. With 25 years of experience in the industry, Huet was a professional jockey in France for numerous trainers, including François Doumen, Mikel Delzangles, Robert Collet, Jonathan Pease, Rupert Pritchard Gordon, Fabrice Chappet and Mathieu Boutin. He also worked...

Three wildcards have been added to the catalogue for the Arqana February Mixed Sale, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 12. The three additions include three-year-old filly Alpine Beauty (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who will be offered by Nicolas Clement as lot 190. The unraced Alpine Beauty is out of the winning Sadler's Wells mare Arosa (Ire), a full-sister to the Group winners Crimson Tide (Ire) and Tamarind (Ire). Arosa is the dam of four winners from eight runners to date, including the G1 Prix Royal-Oak hero...

Nominations for every Arqana sale will be made solely through the MyARQANA+ platform from today, with all vendors invited to create an account. Existing MyARQANA accounts will not be automatically transferred to the new platform. Designed to simplify the entire process for vendors, the new MyARQANA+ platform has been introduced to offer an optimised and seamless process for the management of horses entered at Arqana's sales. Intended initially for vendors, the tool manages every stage of the process, from nominating a horse to going under the hammer. Every breeder, consignor...

The Godolphin/Charlie Appleby axis has dominated recent renewals of Kempton's Unibet Supports Safer Gambling Maiden Stakes, winning last year's edition with subsequent G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Sussex Stakes hero Notable Speech (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). The operation struck gold once again as Opera Ballo (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}--Dubai Opera {GB}, by Invincible Spirit {Ire}) emulated that stablemate in division one of Wednesday's one-mile contest and collected a 'TDN Rising Star' of his own with an impressive wide-margin success. He joins Chantilly maiden scorer Mandanaba (Fr) on Ghaiyyath's list of Rising Stars....

The catalogue for the one-day Arqana February Mixed Sale, featuring listed winner Perle Rouge (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}) (lot 27), was released on Friday. A total of 314 Flat and National Hunt lots are catalogued, including horses-in-training, 2- and 3-year-old stores, Flat 2-year-olds, yearlings, fillies and mares, the sale will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Of the 100 fillies in-/out-of-training, Perle Rouge is one of the highlights. She is rated 103 after her win in the Listed Grand Prix de Marseille. The breeding stock portion encompasses 124 lots...

9th-Tampa Bay Downs, $32,000, Msw, 1-17, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.74, fm, 4 1/4 lengths. BRILLANTE (FR) (f, 3, Persian King {Ire}--Baga {Fr}, by No Nay Never) made her American debut Friday after a pair of starts as a 2-year-old in her native France. Privately purchased and imported to the Chad Brown barn late last year, the 7-5 favorite spotted the field a step at the break and raced near the back of the field behind Mona L (Caravaggio) who set an opening half tempo of :48.33. Staying wide throughout, Brillante...

Last year's G1 Deutsches Derby winner Palladium (Ger) (Gleneagles {Ire}), who was sold for €1.4 million at Arqana, has been given his first hurdles entry by his new trainer Nicky Henderson. The four-year-old, who remains a colt, is entered for the two-mile maiden hurdle at Huntingdon next Thursday in the colours of Lady Bamford. Bred by Gestut Fahrhof and formerly trained by Henk Grewe, Palladium has won two of this six starts on the Flat, including his Classic success, which gave Germany's champion jockey Thore Hammer-Hansen his first Derby victory. ...

Arqana has announced that its forthcoming mixed sale will be held over one day on Wednesday, February 12 owing to a "more streamlined offering". The February Sale, which has traditionally stretched to at least two sessions, will feature just shy of 300 short yearlings, fillies, mares and horses in training. The catalogue will be available online on Thursday, January 23. Action will get underway in Deauville at 10am local time. Arqana Online's January Sale has been bolstered by the addition of a share in Haras d'Etreham's City Light (Fr). Offered...

A 1/50th share in the Aga Khan Studs stallion Zarak (Fr) took top billing in the Arqana December Online Sale when going the way of Alex Elliott for €800,000. Of the 13 stallion shares and breeding rights offered, nine sold for a total of €1,323,000. A four-time winner when trained by Alain de Royer-Dupré, notably landing the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Zarak boasts an exceptional pedigree as a son of Dubawi (Ire) and the unbeaten G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar). Zarak stood his first...

A 1/60th share in City Light (Fr) will be offered as lot 13 of Arqana Online's December Sale, the sales company announced on Wednesday. The leading sire of 3-year-olds in France by number of winners, the son of Siyouni (Fr) stands at Haras d'Etreham. The share gives the right to two coverings per year. City Light's third crop will race next year, and he has sired 60 winners to date. Mimos (Fr) took the G3 Prix Miesque, while listed winner La Guapisima (Fr) was second in the G3 Preis der...

The curtain came down on this year's Arqana Breeding Stock Sale on Tuesday where the demand for fillies-in-training, broodmares and foals in particular brought strong trade to Deauville over the course of the four-day sale. Prix de Diane heroine Sparkling Plenty (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) led the way overall, having been sold on Saturday for €5 million to Michel Zerolo of Oceanic Bloodstock alongside Coolmore's MV Magnier on behalf of "a new partnership". All told, five fillies or mares cleared seven figures at a sale where all of the key metrics...