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New Format For Arqana August

Arqana has revealed its lineup of yearling sales for 2022, including some format changes to key sales. The company's flagship sale, the Arqana August Yearling Sale, will take place from Aug. 13 to 15. The sale will take place over the whole day on the Saturday, and will begin at the end of the afternoon following racing on the Sunday and Monday. The sale had previously been staged as two evening sessions on the Saturday and Sunday and an all-day session on the Monday.

The Arqana v2 Yearling Sale, which has in recent years taken place the day after the August Yearling Sale in one session, has been re-named the September Yearling Sale and will be held on Sept. 8 and 9, featuring yearlings selected for precocious conformation.

The Arqana October Yearling Sale will be held from Oct. 17 to 21, while the November Yearling Sale, held for the first time last year, will once again take place on Nov. 12 and will be the firm's final sale of the season to offer flat-bred yearlings. The Nov. 15 Autumn Sale will feature National Hunt-bred yearlings.

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Diva Victoria Joins Arqana February Mixed Sale

The winner Diva Victoria (Fr) (Recorder {GB}) (lot 70) has been added as a wildcard to the upcoming Arqana February Mixed Sale. Offered by trainer Jean-Claude Rouget, the great granddaughter of the G1 Oaks heroine Eswarah (GB) (Unfuwain) will go through the ring on Tuesday, Feb. 15 along with the other 95 horses-in-training. Her dam is a half-sister to G2 Prix de Pomone and G3 Prix de Psyche victress Raabihah (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who also ran second in the G1 Prix Vermeille. Diva Victoria, who is currently rated 85, won a Cagnes-sur-Mer maiden race by five lengths on Feb. 11.

Deauville hosts the two-day sale on Feb. 15-16, with sessions beginning at 11 a.m. local time each day.

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Horses Added To Arqana February

One wildcard and 27 supplementary entries have been added to Arqana's February Mixed Sale on Feb. 15 and 16.

La Motteraye Consignment will offer a broodmare dispersal from Haras d'Auquainville that will include Alexandrina (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) (lot 446), the dam of the G2 Prix de Pomone and G3 Prix Cleopatre second Mango Tango (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) in foal to Siyouni's Classic and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe-winning son Sottsass (Fr). Also among the draft is Alexandrina's 7-year-old winning daughter Fierte d'Amour (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) (lot 448) in foal to Almanzor (Fr).

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After Some Hurdles, Seven-Figure Filly Rougir Begins Full-Time U.S. Residency

Few things can dump cold water on the seven-figure purchase of a racing prospect like finding out the horse's previous trainer has been arrested for doping.

Thoroughbred Daily News reports that the partnership of Peter Brant and Coolmore discovered this first-hand, following the 3-million Euro (about $3.3 million) purchase of French Group 1 winner Rougir at last year's Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. On his own, Brant also bought the French Group 1-placed Speak of the Devil for 1.95 million Euros (about $2.2 million) at the Arqana sale.

Three days after the fall of the hammer, Rougir and Speak of the Devil's former trainer, Cedric Rossi, was among several in his family arrested in connection to a horse doping probe.

Going into the sale, Rougir was a high-level runner in Europe, having won the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera Longines and G3 Prix des Reservoirs in her native France. She had most recently traveled overseas to compete in last year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, where she finished seventh for owner Le Haras de La Gousserie. Having her trainer under suspicion for cheating would understandably cast doubt over the legitimacy of those performances, and in turn, the expensive purchase.

However, Brant said both of his purchases have jumped through every testing hoop. Had they not, or if the horses' records were damaged by anything pertaining to Rossi's arrest, Brant said he and the Coolmore partners had discussed contingency plans with the auction company.

“We were assured these horses were not involved in this thing,” Brant told TDN. “We had all sorts of tests taken on these horses. Samples were sent to Germany. They checked out very well. We were led to believe that these horses were not part of the investigation, that they checked out very well.”

Rougir and Speak of the Devil have been moved to the Florida-based barn of trainer Chad Brown, with short-term and long-term targets in New York turf graded stakes races.