Breezes Held At La Teste-De-Buch For Osarus Breeze-Up Sale On Thursday

The breezes for the Osarus Breeze-Up Sale were held over the training track at La Teste-de-Buch on Wednesday. Just over 50 lots remain in the sale set for Thursday in the south-west of France.

Some of the lots of note include a colt by Dark Angel (Ire) (lot 9) consigned by Ard Erin Stud from the family of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Rosanara (Fr) (Sinndar {Ire}) and a colt by Acclamation (GB) (lot 65) who is kin to multiple group winner Signora Cabello (Ire) (Camacho {GB}); and M.C. Thoroughbreds offers a Night Of Thunder (Ire) filly out of a daughter of Group 3 winner Zantenda (GB) (Zamindar).

For the full catalogue, please visit the Osarus website.

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Osarus Breeze-up Catalogue Now Online

The catalogue for the Osarus Breeze-up Sale is now available online and contains 68 juveniles set to sell on Apr. 27.

Among those consigned for the auction will be a filly from the debut crop of Magna Grecia (Ire), who was represented by his first winner at Saint-Cloud last week. Lot 30, offered by Highfield Bloodstock, is out of Bagira (Giant's Causeway), a winning full-sister to the GI Suburban H. winner Frost Giant. 

Another with an American stakes winner close up on the page is Lot 8, a Sir Percy (GB) colt, consigned by Barry Davis Bloodstock, and whose full-sister Consolida (GB) won the California Oaks.

The Osarus Breeze-up Sale has recently been represented by a star graduate over jumps in the G2 Cleeve Hurdle winner Gold Tweet (Fr). The Gabriel Leenders-trained son of On Est Bien (Ire) was picked up at the 2019 edition for €14,000.

Horses for this year's sale will breeze at La Teste de Buch racecourse after the race meeting on Wednesday, Apr. 26, with the gallops being shown live on the Osarus website.

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Racehorses Evacuated From La Teste de Buch

As parts of Europe continue to be subjected to record temperatures, the large forest fire raging in the Gironde region of south-west France has forced the evacuation of all 370 horses in training at La Teste de Buch racecourse. Though the fire is several kilometres from the track and training centre, the horses have been moved to racecourses in Bordeaux and Mont de Marsan, while others have been given refuge at Haras de Saubouas, largely to protect them from inhaling toxic fumes from the blaze which has destroyed campsites and woodland across more than 45,000 acres along the Atlantic coast.

Celine Bobacher, communications manager for La Teste de Buch racecourse, told Jour de Galop, “The fire advanced so quickly and is now close to the racecourse. The strong fumes became a concern. The surrounding neighbourhoods have also been evacuated.”

La Teste de Buch had been scheduled to host race meetings on July 24 and 25. The fixture on Sunday, July 24 will be moved to Dieppe, which had been set to race on Monday. That fixture will now move to Tarbes, while Dax will host La Teste's second meeting, which has been postponed until Tuesday, July 26.

The heatwave has also meant an adjustment to race times during Vichy's week-long festival have been moved to avoid racing during the hottest part of the day. In England, five race meetings were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday following the British government's issuing of an extreme heat warning.

Trainers and their teams in parts of Britain where the temperature has been approaching 40 Celsius over the last two days have been exercising horses as early as 3.30am in order to beat the heat.

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Freshman Sire Morandi Off the Mark at La Teste de Buch

Hugues Rousseau and Didier Guillemin’s Healey (Fr) (Morandi {Fr}), who ran unplaced in a five-furlong claimer at Chantilly in his May 13 debut, stepped forward to cause an upset in Friday’s Prix Hyper U Gujan Mestras upped to six furlongs at Bordeaux’s La Teste de Buch venue and become the first winner for his Haras du Mont Goubert-based freshman sire (by Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}). Sent forward to lead after a sharp getaway, the 93-10 chance enjoyed a healthy advantage until coming under pressure when threatened in early straight and he rallied gamely once headed by Magic Sword (Fr) (Goken {Fr}) approaching the final furlong to outpoint Sagayan (Fr) (Lucayan {Fr}) by an ultimately comfortable 2 1/2 lengths.

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