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Stakes winner Saint Martin (Time Test) (lot 4) has been added to Arqana Online's March Sale. The sale will take place between 3-5 p.m. French time on March 25. The Christophe Escuder-trained colt has won three of his four starts, including last weekend's Listed Prix Francois Mathet. He is rated 101 and holds an entry in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp on July 14. The three-year-old is out of listed winner Abraxa (Verglas), who placed in the G3 Grosser Preis der Mehl-Mulhens-Stiftung in Germany. He is also...

Alpha Racing's Barnavara (Calyx) became the new sale topper at Tattersalls December's Sceptre Sessions at 4.8 million gns. She was bought online by Sugar Whiskey Trading, believed to be an associate of Ace Stud. Henry Lascelles, on the phone, was a determined underbidder on the Baroda Stud-consigned filly. Sold as lot 1753, the three-year-old daughter of Calyx captured the G1 Prix de l'Opera this autumn, after taking the G2 Blandford stakes in September for trainer Jessica Harrington. The daughter of Alfea (Kentucky Dynamite) was bred by Andriy Milovonov and V....

MV Magnier shelled out 2.6 million gns for Group 1 winner Tamfana (Soldier Hollow) (lot 1743) later in the Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday. Bred by Gestut Etzean and Hans Helmut Rodenburg, the Menuisier trainee won the 2024 edition of the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes for Quantum Leap Racing VIII and Friends. Tamfana was picked up by Jeremy Brummitt for €20,000 out of the BBAG September Yearling Sale in 2022. Offered by Quantum Leap, the four-year-old was Magnier's third purchase of the day, after the classy Porta Fortuna at 4.5m gns...

Queen of the course and queen of the ring, four-time Group 1 winner Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio) was knocked down for 4.5 million gns to MV Magnier during Tuesday's Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the daughter of winner Too Precious (Holy Roman Emperor) has the option of racing again. Bred by Whisperview Trading, the four-year-old filly is out of a full-sister to multiple group winner Numerian, second in the G1 Australian Cup and G1 Doomben Cup. Porta Fortuna raced for Medallion Racing,...

The Scorpion mare Ledecka (lot 19) topped the ThoroughBid November sale at £30,000 on Wednesday. Placed in two starts in National Hunt Flat races, the five-year-old mare is from the family of G3 Queen's Vase winner Silver Wedge (Silver Hawk). She was offered by Beatbush Farm and picked up by Red Racing.    Pour Les Fillies (Pour Moi) (lot 17) brought £9,500 from Mickey Bowen Racing. A winner of a NH Flat race, a point-to-point and a hurdle race, the Gordon Elliott-consigned seven-year-old is from the same family as Listed...

Journalism (Curlin) who took three Grade I races during his 3-year-old season, will not be retired to stud at Coolmore America just yet, but will instead resume training for a 2026 campaign, according to co-owner Aron Wellman of Eclipse Thoroughbreds. "We are thrilled to announce that Journalism will be returning to race next season," said Wellman in an email. "Coolmore have been wonderful partners and sportsmen as it relates to arriving at this collective decision on Journalism's future and we all share in the belief that Journalism is bred, built...

Lope De Vega's Ezo Fuji (lot 4) was knocked down to Broadhurst Agency for a sale-topping €50,000 during Auctav's May Sale on Tuesday. The Philippe Sogorb trainee has placed this year at three and is out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Malicieuse (Galileo). Her dam is a half-sister to Group 1 winners and sires Bago and Maxios. A juvenile filly by Sea The Moon (lot 9) caught the eye of BLM Bloodstock for €42,000. Consigned by Al Shahania Stud, the daughter of Meseika (Medaglia d'Oro) is a half-sister to G3...

Another record was broken at Tattersalls on Tuesday when Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe eighth Delius (GB) (Frankel {GB}) became the most expensive horse ever sold at the Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale when knocked down from Coolmore to Hubie De Burgh and a range of other buyers to join Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.  A delighted De Burgh explained that Delius, who has won three of his six starts and was beaten a little under nine lengths by Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) in the Arc, had been on his radar for...

The penultimate lot in the ring at lot 54, Trafalgar Square (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) duly attracted plenty of attention and hammered at €1.15 million to Sheikh Omar Ismil Ghrghar as the fourth seven-figure horse of the night. The 3-year-old gelding, a listed winner in April, also sports a trio of group placings on his record prior to a win in the valuable Arqana Series des 3 Ans on Aug. 15. The Ecurie X-bred was two lengths adrift of Illinois (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) when second in the G2 Prix Chaudenay on...

The Arqana Arc Sale saw a third seven-figure lot on the evening and a new top lot when Saturday's G2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein hero Ramadan (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) went the way of Lion Rock Bloodstock for €1.5 million at Saint-Cloud. Consigned by Christopher Head, the bay son of Raushan (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}) (lot 41) and half-brother to G3 Hoppings Stakes second Rasima (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) is a homebred for Nurlan Bizakov's Sumbe. Besides the Daniel Wildenstein, Ramadan has also accrued victories in the G3 Prix Daphnis, G3 Prix de...

Just four lots after the €1.4-million sale of G1 German Derby hero Palladium (Ger) (Gleneagles {Ire}) at the Arqana Arc Sale, the Aga Khan Studs' Zarir (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) stepped into the Saint-Cloud ring. Offered by his breeder, lot 38 caught the eye of Paulins Racing to the tune of €1.3 million. From the same female family as Arc heroine Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar), the 4-year-old gelding has been placed in the G1 Prix Ganay, G3 La Coupe and G2 Prix Foy this season. He has been entered in the G2...

Listed winner Mgheera (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}), who ran second in the G2 Prix du Gros-Chene in June, will be part of the upcoming Tattersalls Online September Sale catalogue on Sept. 18-19, the sales company announced on Wednesday. Twice placed at group level this term and a winner of the Listed Prix Hampton for Manon Scandella-Lacaille who began training her last summer, the filly is rated 107 by Timeform. She is entered in the G3 Prix du Petit Couvert at ParisLongchamp on Sunday, Sept. 15, as well as the G1 Prix...