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Half To Al Wukair Lines Up At Deauville

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Today’s Observations features a half to a young Group 1-winning sire.

11.25 Deauville, Debutantes, €22,000, 2yo, c/g, 7 1/2f (AWT)
VERDERON (IRE) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) is a notable newcomer for Godolphin and Andre Fabre on the Polytrack, being a 500,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale purchase. The half-brother to the recent Polytrack listed scorer Indie Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) faces seven on this introduction.

11.55 Deauville, Debutantes, €22,000, 2yo, f, 7 1/2f (AWT)
CASIMIA (IRE) (Siyouni {Fr}) represents her breeders Ballylinch Stud and is a half-sister to the G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois hero and Bouquetot resident Al Wukair (Ire) (Dream Ahead). Robert Collet saddles the March-foaled bay, who encounters 13 peers on this debut.

4.30 Dundalk, Mdn, €11,000, 2yo, 8f (AWT)
RULING (GER) (Camelot {GB}) cost Qatar Racing Limited 210,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 and starts out for Joseph O’Brien. His dam is the 2008 G1 Preis der Diana heroine Rosenreihe (Ire) (Catcher In The Rye {Ire}), whose progeny include the G1 Deutsches Derby third Savvy Six (Ger) (Pour Moi {Ire}).

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Strong Clearance As Arqana Continues

As the prices have dropped, so has the clearance rate risen at Arqana, with 84% of the 164 mares and foals offered on Monday being marked as sold.

Other indicators also improved on the trade from the equivalent session last year as the average rose by 17% to €11,478 and the median jumped from €6,500 to €10,000. From a much smaller offering than in 2019, the 137 lots sold during the third session brought an aggregate of €1,572,500.

Matt Houldsworth of Howson & Houldsworth Bloodstock has been busy throughout the sale, signing for seven horses in total, including Monday’s top lot (544) from Haras du Mont dit Mont. It was the second time that Nafithaa (GB), a 4-year-old daughter of Shamardal, has been through a sale ring in 18 months and this time around she was offered in foal to Intello (Ger). Bred by Shadwell, she is a daughter of the listed-placed Lanansaak (GB) (Zamindar) from a family which traces back to the G1 Cheveley Park S. winner Desirable (GB) (Lord Gayle).

“She’s been bought for an existing client,” said Houldsworth after bidding €51,000. “It’s hard to buy mares by Shamardal and she’s from a nice Shadwell family. Her 2-year-old sister [Zaajirah] was an impressive winner for Roger Varian and the 3-year-old half-brother [Montather] has won two races from three starts, so it is a young active family.”

Top of the foals on Wednesday was a first-crop son of the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner Al Wukair (Ire) (lot 566). The colt out of the four-time winner Money Time (Ire) (Arch) was sold by Haras de Doumy for €40,000 to Morten Buskop.

A colt by another freshman, Sioux Nation, was the pinhook choice for Michel Zerolo at €31,000.

He said of lot 640, “I bought the dam so I had to buy the little guy. He’s a first foal, and a good-looking colt from a lovely family. He’s been bought for a group of friends and will come back here to sell next year.”

His dam, the dual winner Volute (Fr) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), who is out of a half-sister to G2 Prix de Sandringham winner Volta (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), went though the ring on Sunday for €65,000, carrying her second foal by Sea The Moon (Ger). Both were sold by La Motteraye Consignment.

The final day of the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale commences on Tuesday at 10am.

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Al Wukair Filly Tops Arqana Yearlings

The first of four sessions of the Arqana Autumn Yearling Sale took place on Saturday with a day dedicated to flat-bred yearlings. After scratches, 214 youngsters went under the hammer, with 156 finding new homes for a clearance rate of 72.9%. A total of €1,092,000 was accrued, at an average price of €7,000 and a median of €5,000. Last year’s yearling session, which took place at the end of the sale, saw 147 yearlings sold (83.5%) for an average of €8,044 and a median of €6,500.

Sebastian Desmontils’s Chauvigny Global Equine signed for three of the top five lots on Saturday on behalf of various trainers. Leading the way was Quesnay’s Al Wukair (Ire) half-sister to the listed-placed Tres Forte (Fr) (Whipper) (lot 233), who fetched €57,000 with Desmontils acting on behalf of trainer George Baker. This is the first crop of yearlings for Al Wukair.

Desmontils was working on behalf of trainer Henri Devin when he went to €26,000 for lot 175, a filly by Doctor Dino (Fr), and for Mathieu Brasme when he signed for lot 9, a colt by Pedro The Great, for €21,000.

The top-priced colt of the session was Haras des Pierres Follets’s Pedro The Great colt from the family of American champion mare Questing (lot 240), who was bought by Joel Boisnard for €22,000.

After a break in the action on Sunday, the Arqana Autumn Sale continues on Monday and runs through Wednesday. It is followed by the Arqana National Hunt Breeding Stock Sale on Thursday.

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