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Mating Plans: Haras de Castillon

Benoit Jeffroy's Haras de Castillon, a burgeoning force on the French racing and bloodstock scenes, burst into international prominence in December when it consigned the Group 1-winning Grand Glory (Ire) (Olympic Glory {Ire}) at the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, where she sold for €2.5-million. The quickly growing Castillon has only been in existence under its current guise since 2015, but the Jeffroy family has a history of breeding quality racehorses from their SCEA des Prairies, with just one recent example being Zelda (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}), a listed winner last year at two bred by Castillon and SCEA des Prairies and raced by the Jeffroys in partnership with basketball star Tony Parker. Jeffroy is assisted at Castillon by Amelie Lemercier-and both also work at Sheikh Joaan's Haras de Bouquetot-and Jeffroy and Lemercier shared details of Castillon's 2022 mating plans.

TEXALOULA (FR) (m, 18, Kendor {Fr}-Texalouna {Fr}, by Kaldoun {Fr}), visits Sea The Moon (Ger)
Texaloula is the dam of Dubai Group 2 winner Frankyfourfingers (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}). She is also the second dam of G3 Prix de Psyche winner and €1.2-million Arc sale topper Penja (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) and listed winners Taos (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}) and Texas (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) through two of her daughters. “Texaloula will visit Sea The Moon, a proven sire at good value, and we hope to have another filly,” said Castillon's Jeffroy.

TEXALOVA (GB) (m, 8, Dream Ahead-Texaloula {Fr}, by Kendor {Fr}), visits Wooded (Fr)
Texalova is an unraced daughter of Texaloula and is the dam of last year's listed-winning 2-year-old Texas. Texalova is currently in foal to Mehmas (Ire) and visits G1 Prix de l'Abbaye winner Wooded in his second season this year. “Wooded is by Wootton Bassett so we will try to breed on the same line to get a three-quarter sibling to Texas,” Jeffroy said. “Wooded was a talented sprinter and I believe he has a big chance to make it.”

JUST WITH YOU (IRE) (m, 10, Sunday Break {Jpn}-Texaloula {Fr}, by Kendor {Fr}), visits Zelzal (Fr)
Just With You, a daughter of Texaloula and a half-sister to Texalova, is the dam of Taos and Penja. “Just With You is probably our best mare,” said Jeffroy. “She has a beautiful Wootton Bassett yearling filly and she is in foal to Siyouni. She will visit Zelzal. We are big supporters of Zelzal, having bred Zelda and having invested into him. We will support him strongly again this year with eight mares.”

AWE STRUCK (GB) (m, 12, Rail Link {GB}-Aspiring Diva, by Distant View), visits Victor Ludorum (Fr)
Awe Struck is the dam of German Group 3 winner and GI Canadian International second Alounak (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) and is barren this year. “Awe Struck will be bred to Victor Ludorum, who should bring her some precocity and speed,” Jeffroy said. “He is from a great stallion family and had a terrific turn of foot as a 2-year-old.”

GALILEO'S MOON (IRE) (m, 11, Galileo {Ire}-Adoration, by Honor Grades), visits Toronado (Fr)
Galileo's Moon is a daughter of Breeders' Cup winner Adoration who was purchased for $37,000 at Keeneland November in 2018. Galileo's Moon is in foal to Blue Point and visits Toronado. “I think Toronado is the best value stallion on the French roster,” Jeffroy said. “I have done the same cross with a filly named Jouza and she is a very promising filly, a winner on her second start as a 2-year-old last year.”

NEKO (FR) (m, 9, Dansili {GB}-Epopee {Ire}, by Sadler's Wells), visits Zelzal (Fr)
Neko is the dam of the listed-winning and G2 Prix Eugene Adam second Caprice Des Dieux (Fr) (Declaration Of War), and her second foal, the 3-year-old Gemmyo (Fr) (Shalaa {Ire}), is a winner. She has a 2-year-old colt by Wootton Bassett and is in foal to Hello Youmzain. “She has got the walk but she needs some strength,” Jeffroy said. “Zelzal will inject some speed and strength.”

SPACE ANGEL (FR) (m, 4, Shalaa {Ire}-Space Quest {GB}, by Rainbow Quest), visits Ten Sovereigns (Ire)
A maiden mare from the family of Enable (GB) and Flintshire (GB) who ran three times last year, Space Angel will be bred to Ten Sovereigns for her first mating. “Space Angel showed a lot of potential in the mornings but was too keen in the afternoons,” Jeffroy said. “We have four nice foals on the farms by him [Ten Sovereigns], and I liked what I saw at the sales as well.”

SUNDAZE (FR) (m, 4, Shalaa {Ire}-Tropical Mark {GB}, by Mark Of Esteem {Ire}), visits Bated Breath (GB)
Sundaze is an unraced half-sister to the Group 1-placed Danza Cavallo (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}), herself now the dam of Group 3 winner Cheshire Academy (Fr) (Flintshire {GB}). She visits Bated Breath, like Flintshire a son of Dansili, for her first covering.

ARLETTA (FR) (m, 4, Lethal Force {Ire}-Milena's Dream {Ire}, by Authorized {Ire}), visits Almanzor (Fr)
Arletta is a half-sister to GI EP Taylor S. winner Etoile (Fr) who was bought for €50,000 at Arqana in December in foal to Sottsass (Fr), a son of Etoile's sire Siyouni (Fr). She visits Almanzor in 2022.

AMARA (FR) (m, 4, Olympic Glory {Ire}-Lunaba {Fr}, by Anabaa), visits Hello Youmzain (Fr)
Amara is a half-sister to the dam of the GI Garden City S. winner Alterite (Fr) (Literato {Fr}) as well as the dual stakes-producer Dianaba (Fr) (Diktat {GB}). “She is from a great Louviere family,” said Jeffroy. “All her sisters who have been average race mares have been good producers including one who gave Group 1 winner Alterite. Amara has size and scope. She lacks strength behind so we will breed her to Hello Youmzain, who has plenty of speed and great, powerful conformation.”

RESTLESS (FR) (m, 6, Le Havre {Ire}-Reine Zao {Fr}, by Alzao), visits Romanised (Ire)
Restless is a half-sister to GI EP Taylor S. winner Reggane (GB) (Red Ransom) as well as to the dam of last year's G3 Prix des Reservoirs victress Rosacea (Ire) (Soldier Hollow {GB}). “She gave us a colt by Hello Youmzain as her first foal and will visit Romanised,” said Jeffroy. “We have five foals on the ground by him and I like them already.”

LEMON TWIST (IRE) (m, 14, Marju {Ire}-Lia {Ire}, by Desert King {Ire}), visits Ectot (GB)
Lemon Twist is the dam of G2 Prix de Malleret winner Al Wathna (GB) (Nayef). “Lemon Twist is a medium-sized, compact mare and Ectot is producing progeny with size and scope,” Jeffroy said. “He has started well with his first 3-year-olds.”

COMPLICATION (FR) (m, 4, No Nay Never-Sleek Gold (GB), by Dansili {GB}), visits Mehmas (Ire)
Complication is a winning and listed-placed half-sister to the Castillon-bred Ouraika (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}), who won the GIII Sweet Life S. at Santa Anita. Another half-sister, Simplicity (Fr) (Casamento {Ire}), is listed-placed. Complication visits Mehmas for her first mating.

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Castillon’s Glory The Result Of Years Of Hard Work

DEAUVILLE, France–When Arqana issued the news, on Oct. 11, that Grand Glory (GB) (Olympic Glory {Ire})—the Group 1 winner raced by a partnership of Albert Frassetto, John d'Amato, and Mike Pietrangelo—would be offered at their upcoming December Breeding Stock sale, there was something curious about the story.

Reading the alert from the TDN, Benoit Jeffroy and the team at Haras de Castillon immediately picked up on it: the story did not list a consignor.

“Amelie [Lemercier] sent me a text, and she said, 'Did you see? She's going to Arqana,'” recalled Jeffroy, sitting in the restaurant above the Arqana sales ring the day after the mare sold for €2.5-million, the second-highest price of the sale. “We read the story, and we had the same thought at the same time.”

Jeffroy continued, “I picked up my phone and called Marco Bozzi [who had originally bought her as a yearling]. We know Marco, because we have been consigning yearlings now for the last four or five years. So I rang him up and I said 'who is consigning the filly?' and he said, 'nobody. The trainer [Gianluca Bietolini], maybe?' I said, 'Well, listen, maybe we can help you guys. There's a little bit of work to do to promote the filly.' He said he would speak to the owners, and they came back and said 'okay, yeah, that's fine.' So we worked together and the result was a €2.5-million filly.”

If that sounds like it was much too easy, it actually was the result of a lifetime of very hard work on Jeffroy's part. The native of Finistere in the Brittany region of Western France grew up on a cattle farm. His father was a cattle breeder and livestock agent, but they also always had a few Thoroughbred mares to breed.

“They bred on a smaller level, but they have been quite successful on that level, and they had a Group 1 winner with Never On Sunday (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}),” he said. “I grew up on the farm around cattle and horses and then one day, it clicked for me when I was 11 or 12, and I really got into pedigrees. I really loved it. Trying to do pedigrees for my parents and my grandfather, I said, 'this is interesting.'”

Jeffroy attended an agricultural school and specialized in their equine program. But he was eager to get out into the world, learn English, and go to work.

When he was 18, he took a job at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand, not speaking a single word of English. He quickly picked up the language, and applied to the Darley (now Godolphin) Flying Start course and was shocked when he was chosen without ever having attended university. He found that a flying start was exactly what the two-year international management course gave him.

“It was my university,” he said. “If you've done the Flying Start, and you've traveled a bit, you can't imagine the number of people you know. And if you have all of that, it's unbelievable. It's a big help at the beginning.”

His first job out of the programme was for Darley, where he spent five years setting up a program to work on nominations from the French marketplace, among other things. But in 2009, his father asked him if he and his brother would take over the farm in Brittany.

“My brother was already a farmer, and so we said, 'okay, we can do that, but we're going to do it our way.' There were nine mares there at the time. We sold six of them.”

In the ensuing twelve years, they have grown the farm in Brittany, SCEA des Prairies, to 300 hectares, where they board around 90 mares for themselves and for clients.

Jeffroy caught the attention of Qatar's Sheikh Joaan, who recruited him to set up Haras de Bouquetot in Normandy for the Qatar Racing operation. Jeffroy continued to run the farm in Brittany with his brother Thomas, as well as Bouquetot, and realized that it would be beneficial to have his own farm in Normandy.

“So I bought Castillon, and I thought, 'it's going to be a small operation,'” he said. “And you know how it goes; you know people, and they ask if you can take their mare. And we can grow, so we grew. We went from 30 hectares to 160 in six years. We are in Livarot, which is about a 40-minute drive from here, and it's a great location. We have access to every kind of facility we need.”

Jeffroy continues to keep all of those balls in the air—dividing his time among the three farms. “We are employed by Sheikh Joaan at Bouquetot, and he gives us the chance to do our own things, so Castillon is my farm,” he said. “Amelie shares her time between the two entities, and that's why she was recruited in 2020. And it's not a question of numbers, it's a question of who is working with you and having a good team, and whether it's Bouquetot or Castillon or Brittany, we have a great team of people on the ground and at the office who do the day-to-day work. I go around to every farm, and I do weekly or monthly strategy meetings, what we want to do for the season. I look at every foal and every yearling every week, but I let the managers do their job. I can't be everywhere, and we have a good team.”

The farm in Brittany continues to turn out top runners, including the exciting 2-year-old filly Zelda (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}), who they race in partnership with the Franco-American basketball star Tony Parker. Jeffroy learned that Parker was looking to buy a few nice fillies, and his manager, Clement Tropres, was from Jeffroy's hometown of Finistere. After an initial four-hour lunch meeting, Tropres asked him if he had any young fillies who would fit the bill.

“I said, 'yes, there's a yearling filly I really liked. I kept her.' She's a sister to [their homebred] Chez Pierre (Fr) (Mehmas {Ire}), who was unbeaten at that time. She couldn't go to the sales because she had two abscesses behind, so we kept her, but I asked Jean-Claude Rouget if she was worth what I thought. Jean-Claude said, 'She's really good,' so we did a deal and Tony came in. And we've been lucky.”

Maybe never as lucky as they were on Saturday at Arqana. “It was very exciting,” said Jeffroy. “It's our first really big mare that we had to consign and I think we were already thinking it would be a good idea to try to promote better drafts in December in Arqana.”

Castillon is part of a wave of new younger consignors popping up in France, and they watched with interest as Sumbe topped the sale this week with their first-ever consignment.

“We thought there was an opportunity in France to do better,” he said.” We see what is happening in America, and in France, there is this potential. What Sumbe has done is great. We're pretty much thinking the same things at the same time, and it worked out pretty well. We're just starting at Castillon. It's pretty new. We're trying to do better as consignors of stock at the December sale.”

For Castillon, who had already started to make a name for itself in a more local marketplace, having consigned a V2 Yearling sales topper, it was a chance to break into the international spotlight in a big way.

“I think a lot of people now will probably recognize Castillon,” said Jeffroy. “'Oh, yeah, those are the guys who sold Grand Glory.' It's a big help, and it's a good promotion for us. And I'm so happy it went so well for the connections, who are great, great people. We knew Marco, but the owners had no idea who we were. We are a new, young consignor. But they trusted us, and I think we did a great job, so I hope they are happy. Happy team, happy clients.”

And what's the ultimate goal? The likeable 36-year-old struggles with the answer. “To win the Arc? With a homebred from Brittany? I don't know. I'm not a guy who aims for things. I just go with the flow. I just keep working. I have always worked, since I was a kid. And at the end of the day, you have to thank everybody who works so hard for you every day, because Castillon is not only me. There are a lot of people behind it.

“I just take it year by year, we try to improve, have happy clients, that's the most important thing, probably. There's no great aim, really. Should I want a bigger farm? I don't know. I just go like it goes, and see.”

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Partners Bid Farewell To Grand Mare

Grand Glory (GB) (Olympic Glory {Ire}) has taken her connections on a remarkable ride over the last three years, and after a short sojourn in Tokyo-where she picked up fifth-place prizemoney in Sunday's G1 Japan Cup-the G1 Prix Jean Romanet winner and G1 Prix de Diane third-place finisher rolls into Deauville this weekend to go through the ring at the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale as lot 192 from Haras de Castillon.

Grand Glory is trained in France and owned by a trio of Americans, but her story has a decidedly Italian feel. Purchased for €18,000 as a yearling by the Rome-based Marco Bozzi, Grand Glory went into training in Maisons-Laffitte with Gianluca Bietolini, a successful trainer in Italy who emigrated to France in 2013. After making a winning debut in December of 2018 for owner Bartolo Faraci, Grand Glory was purchased privately by a trio of Italian American friends now scattered across the States: Albert Frassetto, John D'Amato and Mike Pietrangelo.

Pietrangelo, a Memphis-based retired attorney, has been dabbling in racehorse ownership, breeding and pinhooking for the better part of 20 years, but he has never had a horse like Grand Glory. Recalling how he and his partners came to buy her, Pietrangelo said, “John [D'Amato] is really close to our trainer, Gianluca Bietolini, and also with Marco Bozzi, who is our bloodstock agent in Europe. Marco had bought Grand Glory for another client, and she ran a very good first race. John D'Amato called up Gianluca to congratulate him, and Gianluca was a little sad. He said, 'I've already had calls and I think the owner is going to sell.' John said, 'no, we need to buy this horse. Tell me what a fair price is.' We had Marco work that out and we bought her. Then John said, 'I'm going to ask Al Frassetto to come in.' So we have a third each.”

Pietrangelo and D'Amato met at a day at the races hosted by another Italian American, the Florida-based Paolo Romanelli, about 10 years ago. The pair, who each had racing interests in the U.S., hit it off, and before they knew it they were racehorse owners overseas.

“There were a couple of horses that were sold in Ocala and shipped over to Europe, but the buyer never paid for them, so the horses were there and they were actually with Gianluca, so we bought them,” Pietrangelo said. “Between the three of them, I don't think they won a race, but that's how we got started. Marco then bought us a couple at the Arqana sale, and we had some good luck.”

Some good luck, and a lot of ability, would be a good descriptor for Grand Glory who, after her purchase by D'Amato, Frassetto and Pietrangelo, was put away for the winter. Meeting heavy ground on her 3-year-old debut, she was second in the Listed Prix Rose de Mai, and five weeks later won a Saint-Cloud conditions race going 2000 metres. Next up was a lofty assignment in the G1 Prix de Diane, but Grand Glory's odds of 28-1 did nothing to damper the excitement of her owners, who all traveled to Chantilly to see their filly in action. Grand Glory outran her odds to be a fast-finishing third behind Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}).

“That was one of my most exciting days at the races,” Pietrangelo said. “It's as big a race in France as anything we have in the U.S., and to see her close like she did–maybe with another 20, 30 yards, I'm not saying we'd win, but maybe we'd get second. It was just spectacular.”

The subsequent onset of the pandemic has meant that Team Grand Glory hasn't since been able to gather to cheer home their mare in person, but she has nonetheless continued to provide thrills from afar. In her first appearance since the Diane, Grand Glory won her first black-type race, the Listed Prix Zarkava at ParisLongchamp, last May, and added the G3 Prix de Flore before seasons' end.

As good as Grand Glory was at three and four, she has proven a revelation at five. After winning the G3 Grand Prix de Vichy, she came from a joint-last early to nab the defending winner and Breeders' Cup champion Audarya (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) by a short head in the G1 Prix Jean Romanet in August. The bob of the head, however, went against Grand Glory next out, and she lost the G1 Prix de l'Opera by a nose to Rougir (Fr) (Territories {Ire}), who will also be offered on Saturday.

“After she won the Romanet we were pretty excited, and then we went to the Opera and she lost by a little bit less than she won the Romanet,” Pietrangelo said. “You live by the sword you die by. You can't complain, though it was heartbreaking.”

A trip to the Breeders' Cup and subsequent sale at Fasig-Tipton November had come under consideration for Grand Glory, but with Bietolini wary of the mare's suitability to Del Mar, that plan was shelved. Just days after the Opera, it was announced that Grand Glory would sell at Arqana, but her owners weren't quite ready to call time on a mare at the top of her game. So it was decided to take up an invitation for the Japan Cup.

“We tried like heck to go, and they dropped the quarantine to three days so that made it possible, but you had to have an essential reason to travel to Japan, and owning a horse in the Japan Cup wasn't considered essential enough,” Pietrangelo said.

So Pietrangelo and his family stayed up until 1 a.m. to watch at home in Memphis as Grand Glory came home a very respectable fifth, tracking the winner Contrail (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) much of the way before getting going a bit late in the stretch, a placing no international raider has bettered in Tokyo's marquee race in the past decade.

“We're very satisfied,” Pietrangelo said. “Nobody was going to catch the winner, Contrail–that's a special horse–but I think that stretch was a bit short for her. It was incredible competition and I think it was a great experience-we're sorry we couldn't have been there with her, but we're pleased.”

“She came out of it fine,” he added. “It's hard to say I'm happy with fifth, but with that field and under the conditions, it's ok. We beat the other two foreign horses, and one of those [Broome] had finished second in the Breeders' Cup just three weeks ago, so we're pleased. I don't think she hurt her value for the sale at all. It was quite a privilege for us to have a horse invited to that race and to run respectably, which is what she did.”

One of just two current-season Group 1 winners catalogued at the sale, Grand Glory-with an outcross pedigree to boot-offers plenty of upside to breeders anywhere in the world.

“I think she's really an outstanding broodmare prospect,” Pietrangelo said. “Her demeanour-you can get in the stall with her, you could take her out and walk her, she's just so pleasant to be around. For a horse that's that good and that competitive, the only time she has an edge is on the racetrack. She's perfectly correct, she's good-sized, and she has a race record.”

“There is no stallion in Europe that you couldn't breed her to except for her own sire,” he added. “She would be an outcross with anyone, and we think that's really an exciting opportunity for her.”

Pietrangelo said high-end breeding has never been in the business plan of he or is partners-hence why Grand Glory is going through the ring-but he stressed that, naturally, they won't let her go cheaply.

“The problem with breeding from her-and we've talked about it-is that to do her justice, you need to go to one of the top sires anywhere,” he reasoned. “In Europe, you're talking a couple hundred thousand pounds. In the U.S., who are you going to breed her to? You'd have to breed her to a turf stallion so you'd go to War Front. But to do her justice you need to have a large breeder who has the resources and wherewithal to say, 'we're going to breed her to the best available.'”

“To do her right would require substantial commitment to stud fees, and that's not the level I play at,” he added. “John doesn't breed, and I don't think Al breeds, so it didn't make sense for us to change what we do. But of course if she doesn't get a price we're happy with, we'll have to change what we do. We're not going to give her away. So if we have to breed from her, we will. But we think in the hands of one of the leading breeders around, she'll be a lot better served and her offspring will have much better opportunities.”

While the pandemic has forced Pietrangelo to miss out on much of Grand Glory's Group 1 action, he is taking up the opportunity to travel to Deauville this week to see Grand Glory go through the ring. For the man who fell in love with racing going to Aqueduct Racetrack in New York to watch Dr. Fager run, the gravity of being the custodian of a mare like Grand Glory is not lost.

“She means so much,” Pietrangelo said. “Just to have a horse to do this, and to be there for the Diane; that was probably one of the best days I've had, and I've been to all the Derbys. It's very rewarding to have a mare of this calibre and to know that she's a gentle mare with a really good head, and is so pleasant to be around.”

Bozzi has already begun to replenish the partners' stable with the addition of a 2-year-old and a yearling, and Pietrangelo warned he may not be leaving Deauville empty-handed, even if Grand Glory does sell.

“Marco Bozzi is convinced we need to buy a replacement,” Pietrangelo said. “He has already told me, 'if she sells well, you're not leaving unless you buy a broodmare.' I told him if he can guarantee me one with the same ability, I might go for it.”

He added, “It's a lot of fun, and having the faith I have in Gianluca and Marco-I know Marco will pick out a good horse for us, and I know Gianluca is as good a trainer as we can have. You have to have that confidence in the people you're working with, or you probably ought to find something else to do. But we have tremendous confidence in their skills and they've proven it. It's been fun. I never thought I'd be owning horses running in Europe or Japan, but things happen.”

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Zarak Filly Leads The Way At Arqana

DEAUVILLE, France–Zarak (Fr), the Aga Khan Studs' beautifully bred son of Dubawi (Ire) and Arc heroine Zarkava (Fr), has made a promising start with his first 2-year-old runners this season and currently has 11 winners to his name from 26 runners. At the weekend he was represented by his first stakes winner when the Gestut Haus Zoppenbroich homebred Lizaid (Ger) the G3 Preis der Winterkonigin for Peter Schiergen at Baden-Baden, while another recent winner, Zagrey (Fr), gave an important update to the filly who topped trade as Part III of the Arqana October Yearling Sale got underway on Thursday.

Lot 568, the Zarak filly from Haras de Castillon out of Grey Anatomy (Fr) (Slickly {Fr}), was bought for €95,000 by Anne-Sophie Yoh Benet of YOHEA, having received a boost to her page by the victory of her full-brother on Oct. 11 at Amiens.

She is also a half-sister to the treble winner and Group 1-placed Graignes (Fr) (Zoffany {Ire}).

“She is a beautiful, well-bred filly, and she really had something special,” said Yoh Benet. “I bought her for a new client for whom I bought several broodmares last year and who wanted to invest in yearlings. We have bought five in total, they will stay in France and we will decide on the trainer according to the profiles of the fillies.”

At a drenched Deauville racecourse on Thursday, the Al Shaqab juvenile Welwal (GB) continued his upwardly mobile progression with his second victory in three starts, and a yearling by his sire Shalaa (Ire) was the leading colt of the day when bought by John Hammond and Federico Barberini for €43,000. Offered as lot 609 as one of a smart draft from Guillaume and Camille Vitse's Normandie Breeding, he is a son of the 2-year-old listed winner Luna Royale (Fr) (Royal Applause {GB}).

A smaller fourth session of the sale saw 76 yearlings sold–or 83.5%–at an average of €16,007 (+15%) and median of €14,0000. The day's aggregate of €1,216,500 pushed the tally for the sale as a whole past €26 million, which is already up by 50% on 2021 with one session of around 100 yearlings to sell on Friday from 11am.

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