Elevage de Tourgeville's daughter of American Post out of Golden Lily enjoyed one of the most significant updates in the sale when her year-older half-sister LILY'S CANDLE, a Listed winner when the catalogue went to press, took the Gr.1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac by storm, less than 24h after having been purchased by Martin Schwartz at the Arc Sale.
Antoine Lepeudry had gone to great lengths to breed the ageing Golden Lily to American Post, in a bid to take advantage of the family's amazing affinity with the son of Bering. While Golden Lily never saluted the judge, her half-sisters LILISIDE and LILY AMERICA, both by American Post, became Stakes winners while ROBIN OF NAVAN, by American Post out of another half-sister, won the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and two more Pattern races.
However, after several years at Haras d'Etreham, the former Poule d'Essai des Poulains scorer had somewhat gone out of fashion and been sold to Haras de Treban in central France. It thus took a long drive on the lorry to produce lot 436, as well as a bit of luck for American Post died accidentaly only a few weeks later.
Such effort were rewarded when Marc-Antoine Berghgracht, Eric Puerari and Philippe Decouz locked horn until the latter emerged at the buyer with a bid of €230,000 on behalf of World Cup winning footballer Antoine Griezmann.
She is a very racy filly with great limbs and a bit of stretch, and obviously the family has worked tremendously with American Post.
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After several years of shuttling between his native France and Australia as Louis Le Métayer's assistant, Nicolas Lefevre decided to branch out on his own and recently set up his own bloodstock agency named Equos Racing International. His most significant purchase to date came in the shape of an Anodin colt from the draft of Haras du Hoguenet who will be reoffered at the 2019 breeze up sales on behalf of an Irish partnership.
Agent Alex Elliott struck gold last year at the October Yearling Sale, signing a €85,000 docket for a son of Reliable Man on behalf of a syndicate of Michael Bell's. He later reported to have received a luckwarm report from the boss, whose brief was to find an early type who would be aimed at winning the October Yearling Sale Criterium, but the colt, named MASTER BREWER fulfilled the script in exemplary fashion, scoring by 3 lengths at ParisLongchamp on Arc eve.
Elliott sensibly returned to the well this time around, although not for the same owners, and his pick was a Wootton Bassett from Tangi Saliou's Haras de la Haie Neuve.
She is a gorgeous filly who oozed class, expressed Elliott. We will take her to Ireland first but I am not sure about training plans yet.
Australian agent John Foote has been busy all week looking for future stayers to race Down Under but this Sea The Moon colt from Haras de Bourgeauville won't have very far to travel to reach his training base as he will join the stables of Stephanie Nigge, who trains a number of horses for Gerry Ryan. The €85,000 purchase is the first foal out the winning Teofilo mare BELLE AMBRE, from the family that has produced TELLURIDE, WITH YOU, WE ARE, LILY'S ANGEL, TEPPAL et al.
Camacho enjoyed a banner year with his daughter TEPPAL taking the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and SIGNORA CABELLO bagging a pair of Group 2 races as well as filling the runner up spot in the Gr.1 Prix Morny. That success was matched in the sales ring by the €130,000 price tag reached by a filly consigned by Julie Mestrallet's Haras de L'Aumonerie, who represented a mighty pinhooking profit: she was picked up by Nicola Kent for €12,000 in the same ring at last year's Breeding Stock Sale.
Amanda Skiffington, acting over the phone with trainer Fabrice Chappet, placed the winning bid over Marc Pimbonnet and declined to name her client.
The same connections were back in action a few minutes later to secure an Intello colt from the draft of Haras d'Etreham (lot 311) for €85,000, having tasted Gr.1 glory this season with another son of Intello, INTELLOGENT, who was bought by Skiffington on behalf of Fiona Carmichael.
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Owner Steeve Burggraf, trainer Francis-Henri Graffard and agent Laurent Benoit have bought a number of future Group winners at ARQANA, headed by Prix de Diane runner-up HOMERIQUE, Stakes winner HEURISTIQUE, HERMAPHRODITE, etc. The trio had to fight hard to secure another well-bred filly in a daughter of Golden Horn offered by Haras d'Etreham for €120,000. Her dam, the winning Dansili filly Rose Et Noire, is out of the Gr.1 heroine ROYAL HIGHNESS, from the family of WILD ILLUSION and ELECTROCUTIONIST.
We are trying something a bit new by putting our faith in a first season sire, explained Laurent Benoit. She is a beautiful filly from a top class family and Dansili is a very good broodmare sire. She probably won't be a two-year-old but that doesn't worry us.
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Progeny of the Aga Khan Studs' Siyouni consistantly draws swift competition in a sales ring and lot 238 proved no exception, prompting Paul Nataf to go to €120,000 to secure the Haras de Meautry offering. The bay is out of a full sister to the four-time Group 1 winner MEANDRE, meaning that she will have significant residual value when the times comes for her own breeding career.
She is for a client who already bought four yearlings at the August sale, said Nataf. She will stay in training in France and the plan is to breed from her eventually - we have been actively looking for a farm to buy in the area.
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A Soldier Hollow filly from Larissa Kneip's Haras de Saint-Arnoult enjoyed a last minute update when her year-older full sister NOVA SOL took an eye-catching third place in the Gr.3 Prix des Réservoirs. Two hours later, the yearling commanded a closing bid of €140,000 from trainer John Hammond.
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The final Siyouni in the ring triggered a heated bidding war that saw Simon Crisford, acting on behalf of Shadwell, emerge on top courtesy of a €240,000 bid. The February-born is the first foal out of the Street Cry mare MELBOURNE SHUFFLE, who hails from the top class Brigid family which has produced the likes of HENRYTHENAVIGATOR, CLIFFS OF MOHER, LISTEN, COEUR DE BEAUTE etc.
The sale provided a pleasing return for a partnership of young breeders comprising Joffret Lerner of Haras de Marancourt, Victor Langlais and Laurent Vincent, who forked out €100,000 for Melbourne Shuffle in foal to Siyouni at the 2016 Breeding Stock sale and offered the colt through Charles Briere's Fairway Consignment.
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La Teste-based trainer Christophe Ferland was not to be denied on a colt by Intello out of the Stakes winner Keegsquaw and went to €200,000 to secure the Coulonces Consignment offering. The chesnut was bred by Elisabeth Fabre's Haras de Saint-Laurent, whose husband trained Intello.
He is a lovely, good-bodied colt out of a mare who has proved that she can produce a good horse, said Ferland. I have bought him for Gerard Laboureau.
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On a red letter day for Camelot, which also saw his three-year-old son and ARQANA graduate King Of Leogrance take the L. Prix Vulcain across the road from the sales complex, M.V. Magnier bidding over the phone with Nicolas de Watrigant secured a half-brother to Group performers JOHANN STRAUSS and INCHARGEOFME for €280,000.
From a very strong draft from Ecurie des Monceaux, the colt was the second six-figure offering by the Coolmore stallion.
Ghislain Bozo of Meridian International signed the docket at €180,000 for a daughter of Invincible Spirit from the draft of Ecurie des Monceaux on behalf of a new French client. The filly's dam is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner CHELSEY FLOWER, herself the dam of former Quesnay stallion Kentucky Dynamite, and she has already produced a black type performer in Toruk. Her two-year-old colt by Makfi lost his maiden tag in style after the catalogue was printed, carrying the colours of another client of Meridian, Laurent Dassault.
She is for a new owner named Gilles Sorrentino, commented Bozo standing next to his client. I thought she was a beautiful filly by a very proven sire, and her year older half-brother, whom I bought last year, looks like a very nice horse.
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Stephen Hillen emerged as the winning bidder for a chesnut son of Sea The Starts out of a half-sister to the Stakes winners SKIA and TROPAIOS, from the draft of Haras d'Etreham.
Henri-Francois Devin loved the horse, said Hillen. We saw him two or three times yesterday and he walked well every time, very professionally. He is for Sheikh Obaid and will be trained by Henri-Francois.
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George Bolton made sure his first visit to Deauville didn't go unnoticed, going to €360,000 for a Siyouni filly bred and consigned by Haras de Grandcamp. The bay is a half-sister to the Group winning juvenile EVASIVE'S FIRST and had attracted from the likes of Anthony Stroud and Michel Zerolo.
I'm kind of going where there sport is going, expressed Bolton. The sport is breeding internationally, racing internationally. I like the way the French raise their horses. These horses don't have steroids, surgeries, and that's why we decided to come to the sale today. This horse is exactly the type that we buy: muscular, fast-looking, stomach muscles, big girth, lots of potential in her. I would rather spend 250 than 350 but there are other people here! The goal is to give her a chance to be what she can be. She will stay in training in Europe.
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A colt by Europe's champion first season sire elect No Nay Never commanded a final bid of €160,000 from Nicolas de Watrigant acting on behalf of Al Shaqab Racing. From the family of leading juveniles SHOLOKHOV and INTENSE FOCUS, the chesnut was bred and offered by Haras du Mézeray.
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Gwenael Monneraye and Lucie Lamotte's La Motteraye Consignment offered the sale-topping colt at the Augut Yearling Sale and were back for more with a daughter of Lope De Vega out of a half-sister to dual Group victrix and Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes runner-up ILLUMINATE. Simon Crisford signed the docket at €220,000 on behalf of Shadwell for the chesnut.
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The only yearling by Galileo, a chesnut half-brother to the leading German performers SEISMOS and SAMBA BRAZIL offered by Ecurie des Monceaux, went the way of German owner Eckhard Sauren on a closing bid of €160,000. Sauren was bidding in company with Chantilly-based trainer Carina Fey but explained that training plans remained undecided for the blue-blooded colt.
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Ecurie des Monceaux brought to the ring an athletic son of Camelot out of the farm's blue hen Platonic, whose progeny includes PACIFIQUE and PRUDENZIA, herself the dam of CHICQUITA, MAGIC WAND and counting. Australian agent John Foote looked for a long time like the winning bidder until Jeremy Brummitt, standing at the top of the stairs, offered a single bid of €210,000 which got the better the opposition.
I was given the chance to buy my pick of the sale and this colt was an obvious choice, said Brummitt. This family has worked so well with Montjeu [the sire of both Chicquita and Pacifique] and they have all had a lot of charisma, which shows in the way they carry their heads. This colt is very much in the same type and I hope he will be following the same path while keeping his sang-froid - is that how you say in French?
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Mark Richards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club was relieved to be finally signing the docket for a colt by Haras de Bonneval's Siyouni, having missed on several occasions at previous sales. Knocked down for €150,000, the Ecurie des Monceaux offering is a half-brother to the dual Listed winner LA PEINTURE, from the stellar Wildenstein family of PEINTRE CELEBRE.
He will be kept in Europe for the next 18 months before being exported to Hong Kong and offered at our 2020 Breeze Up sale, commented Richards. We have been trying to take home some colts by of Siyouni all season and they have proved extremely hard to buy. What made the difference here is that this horse is such a late foal [born May 27] and a backward horse, it probably put some people off and because we have so much time on our hands it played in our favour. We have had a lot of success with the October sale and it is good to come back.
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A daughter of Tally Ho Stud's Kodiac out of the black type performer Passiflore commanded a closing bid of €150,000 from Oceanic Bloodstock's Michel Zerolo. Offered by Haras de l'Hotellerie, the January-born filly hails from the family of Group scorers BELLO MATTEO, LINNGARI and MONT ORMEL.
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