mixed sale

Group 1 winner Tunnes topped Friday's BBAG Spring Sale when selling for €75,000 to LAM GmbH. Consigned by owner Holger Renz, the Guiliani half-brother to G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Torquator Tasso was sold as a stallion prospect to stand next year at Gestut Etzean. He won the 2022 Grosser Preis von Bayern, as well as a pair of German Group 3 contests. Bred by Paul Vandeberg, Tunnes was originally a €38,000 yearling out of the BBAG September Yearling Sale in 2020. The highest priced two-year-old was Net...

A breeding right in 2024 Champion First-Season Sire Sergei Prokofiev (lot 123) is one of the highlights of the 123-strong Tattersalls Online June Sale. The Whitsbury Manor Stud resident already has 42 winners to date, led by multiple group winner and Group 1-placed Arizona Blaze. Misty (Oasis Dream) (lot 122), the sale's lone broodmare and a half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Kinross (Kingman), is also in foal to Sergei Prokofiev. Other lots of note include the Grade 2-placed jumper Paggane (Muhaarar) (lot 87); the 102 Timeform-rated sprinter Kendall Roy...

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...

The catalogue for the Arqana Summer Sale, featuring over 560 horses bred under both codes, is now available online. Past graduates include Mgheera (Zoustar), a multiple group winner on the Flat, while in the jumping sphere, Game Of Storm (Motivator), Haiti Couleurs (Dragon Dancer), Mambonumberfive (Born To Sea) and Nietzsche Has (Zarak) all won over hurdles in France and across the channel. Set for June 30-July 3, the sale features 73 Flat-bred 2-year-olds, 160 2- and 3-year-old NH stores, as well as 88 mares and fillies-out-of-training. Juveniles will be put...

   Kingston Pride (Kingston Hill) (lot 673) topped the final day of the Goffs Spring HIT/PTP Sale at Doncaster, when selling to Olly Murphy for £285,000. The 6-year-old gelding was one of four lots to make six figures on the day. Offered by Nicky Henderson, Kingston Pride won a Kempton novice hurdle by five lengths in March. Henderson acted as underbidder on Thursday, having paid €200,000 two years ago at the Goffs Punchestown Sale for Kingston Pride. "He's a lovely individual, all quality," reported Murphy. "Fingers crossed he'll have a...

Group 1 winner Tunnes, a half-brother to Arc hero and sire Torquator Tasso, has joined the BBAG Spring Sale as a wildcard. Set for May 30, the catalogue now features 59 lots. The son of Guiliani was sold for €38,000 during the BBAG September Yearling Sale in 2020. Racing for Holger Renz, the chestnut showed group form at two with a win at Group 3 level, and progressed at three to take the G3 Deutsches St. Leger and the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern. He is out of the Toylsome...

A share in Extreme Choice brought a sale-topping bid of A$540,000 from Glenlogan Park's Steve Morley during the Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale on Wednesday. The share was offered by China Horse Club. Extreme Choice has sired five Group 1 winners to date and at a range of distances, including Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, Blue Diamond Stakes hero Devil Night, and Melbourne Cup winner Knight's Choice. At the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale his yearlings have averaged A$579,082 and sold up to A$1.7...

Destructive, a three-time winner, topped the Tattersalls Online May Sale which concluded on Thursday. Sold as lot 21, the 4-year-old son of More Than Ready made 76,000gns on the bid of Deva Racing Dubai from the draft of Fitzroy House. "We are delighted to have purchased Destructive online today," said Deva Racing's Ryan Tongue of the gelding, who had finished fourth in the Listed Al Bastakiya at Meydan this winter. "He won three of his last four starts and is on a mark of 97, which is perfect for a...

Group 3 winner Orne (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) (lot 52) is one of the star lots among the 96 horses catalogued during the upcoming Tattersalls Online May Sale. Successful in the Horris Hill Stakes for John and Thady Gosden, he was also second in the G2 Sandy Lane Stakes and currently holds a Timeform mark of 100. Other lots of note in the mixed sale are a quartet from trainer Willie Mullins including the G2 Killashee Handicap Hurdle winner Bialystock (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) (lot 11); and G3 Scottish Grand National runner-up...

Devil's Marble (GB) (Territories {Ire}) topped Friday's Auctav April Sale when selling for €50,000 to Haras des Chataigniers. Also consigned by that outfit, the 3-year-old filly is out of Listed Further Flight Stakes heroine Deuce Again (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who is also the dam of G1 Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy heroine Golden Ace (GB) (Golden Horn {GB}). Second on the buyers' sheet was Lady Chatterley (Fr) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) (lot 12), who sold for €21,000 to George Baker Racing. Offered by Racing D, the winning 4-year-old filly is a granddaughter...

Pax Romana (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) (lot 2) topped the Auctav April Flash Sale when selling for €45,000 to Meridian International. The Haras de la Morsangliere-consigned once-raced 3-year-old filly is a half-sister to a trio of black-type horses: listed winner and GI Secretariat Stakes third Afandem (Fr) (Zoffany {Ire}); the Grade 3-placed hurdler Le Vagabond (Fr) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}); and the listed-placed Frenchette (Fr) (The Gurkha {Ire}). Lot 3, an AQPS filly foal by Saint Des Saints (Fr), also sold. She made €23,000 on the bid of Lucy Snowden from the Haras...

Horantzau d'Airy (Fr) (Legolas {Jpn}) topped the Tattersalls Online March Sale when selling for 50,000gns to Jim Gill. Consigned by Willie Mullins's Closutton Stables, lot 25 has been Grade 1-placed over hurdles, and he was twice third at Grade 3 level in chases last season. He will move to the yard of Michael Keady. "I'm very excited to get him today and Michael is delighted to be training him," said Gill of his new purchase, who holds an entry in the Grand National next month at Aintree. "Even if he...