Arqana

There have been some good recent updates for the family of Paix (Muhaarar) and her Dubawi yearling (lot 181) provided another, albeit in the ring, when selling for €2 million to Anthony Stroud during the final session of the Arqana August Sale. It was the second seven-figure yearling signed for in a matter of minutes by the agent, who was acting on behalf of Godolphin, after the purchase of Haras de Montaigu's Frankel colt for €2.25 million. The Dubawi filly was offered by Ecurie des Monceaux and is a three-parts-sister...

The leading owners battled it out for the progeny of Wootton Bassett on a day when the Coolmore stallion was responsible for the €2.3 million top lot DEAUVILLE, FRANCE -- What more can you say that hasn't already been said about Wootton Bassett? If Aidan O'Brien was asked to sum up the stallion, you can be sure the words, different, special and unusual would be the first ones to be ticked off that bingo card.  Even the most cynical of people will have to start agreeing with the master of...

Late in the day, a son of Siyouni and the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Lightening Pearl (Marju) brought a winning bid of €1.25 million from the American Racing Corporation, bidding online. Sold as lot 140 from the Tweenhills draft, the colt is a half-brother to the G3 Athasi Stakes victress Lightening Quick (Frankel), and the Japanese stakes-placed Matenro Diva (Deep Impact). Under the second dam is the two-time top-level winner Satono Crown (Marju). The bay was bred by Qatar Bloodstock.   A new top lot at #TheAugustSale, as American...

The first yearling to break seven figures during the Arqana August Yearling Sale was lot 104, an elegant son of Wootton Bassett and the Invincible Spirit mare High Celebrity, a winner of the G3 Prix d'Arenberg. Bred by Jean-Philippe Dubois and consigned by Haras des Capucines, he was knocked down to MV Magnier for €2.3 million. His dam, already responsible for the stakes-placed Galileo duo of Friendly Face and G2 Queen's Vase second Highbury, was also second in the G2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes and third in the G1 Cheveley...

Last but not least in the TDN consignor spotlight Q&A series, the attention turns to Philippe Brosset of Applewood Stud, with the consignment offering three horses at the Arqana August Sale.  Can you tell us about your August Sale draft.  We have a lovely Sea The Moon colt who is a real Classic type while the Earthlight filly is very mature and strong. We are also very excited to offer a lovely-moving filly by first-season sire Torquator Tasso. What young sires are you most looking forward to seeing the progeny...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE - Arqana CEO Olivier Delloye says that he is quietly optimistic that the quality the sales company has assembled will result in bustling trade during the August Yearling Sale, before hinting that a number of new buyers could get in on the action over the next few days.  The demand for bloodstock has never been as strong internationally. Records were broken in Japan and, hot on the heels from another bonanza of a sale at Saratoga in America, attention now turns to Arqana for the first European yearling...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE - Pound for pound, Camas Park Stud has produced the goods like no other consignment at the Arqana August Sale in recent years.  Queen Mary third Balantina (Ten Sovereigns), Saratoga Oaks runner-up Evershed (Churchill) and genuine Derby hope Isaac Newton (Camelot) are just some of the August Sale graduates that have been strutting their stuff on the track this year alone for an outfit that sold the 2022 European Champion Two-Year-Old Little Big Bear on this sale ground.  Put simply, few people run a tighter ship than Tim...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE-- When U.S. President Donald Trump made good on his threat to impose tariffs on countries around the world on August 1-including a 15% tax on goods coming into America from the European Union-markets across the world shuddered. In the bloodstock world, the first to be affected will be the Arqana August Sale, which starts this Saturday, August 16. An Arqana-sponsored plane full of Americans arrived Wednesday morning from Saratoga, and the TDN spoke with some of those who came over, and others who stayed home, and international buyers...

Haras de Beaufay manager Sebastien Bloyet is next in the hot seat. Bloyet joined the famous stud farm a little under a year ago and says he is looking forward to offering a St Mark's Basilica colt [lot 13] at the Arqana August Sale this week. He shares all in TDN Europe's latest consignor Q&A ahead of the three-day sale which begins on Saturday in Deauville.  Can you tell us a little bit about the background of your consignment? I took over my role at the Haras de Beaufay in...

The spotlight turns to Haras du Chevotel stud manager Hugo Namur, who is next up in TDN Europe's consignor Q&A, which provides an insight behind some of the vendors in the build-up to the August Yearling Sale in Deauville.  Haras du Chevotel is based in the heart of Normandy and has been associated with quality breeding for many years.  One of the younger guns on the sales circuit, Namur runs through the farm's consignment, offers what young stallions he is taking note of and much more.  Tell us a bit...

KHK Racing's Zanthos (Sioux Nation) hit the €1-million mark at May's Arqana Breeze-Up sale and recovered some of that initial outlay with a taking debut success in Saturday's Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Newcomers' Maiden Fillies' Stakes at Newmarket. In command throughout the seven-furlong newcomers' test, the 4-5 favourite was rowed along with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and kept on strongly under mild urging in the closing stages to easily outpoint Classic Cuvee (Siyouni) by an impressive three lengths. "She showed a nice turn of foot and lots of quality," said Simon...

Solene Hudbert has been appointed to the Arqana bloodstock team and will gradually take charge of both Flat and National Hunt-bred yearling and store inspections. A graduate of the Godolphin Flying Start programme, Hudbert has gained international experience working across the racing and breeding sectors, including spending a season foaling and sales preparation for the breeze-ups at Kildaragh Stud, and a season preparing yearlings for sale at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand. She has also worked as pupil assistant for trainers Johnny Murtagh, William Haggas, Jamie Richards and Nicolas Clement,...