KATIE Rudd in Ireland and Toby Jones are agents for the new Auctav online sales portal. The company has already had a couple of sales, attracting buyers from Ireland among their customers, and on Wednesday, July 21st they will have their next sale.
As an introduction to this relatively new service, we will take a detailed look at the lots on offer this week.
The timed auction, all online, will run over a two-hour period that afternoon, and full details are available, along with pedigrees, of the lots for sale. The company sells thoroughbreds, AQPS horses and trotters, and they are aiming to get the best quality lots assembled for each sale.
Next week the 19 lots due to sell (one has been withdrawn) includes some outstanding lots for the trotting community, and 15 lots of great interest to National Hunt and flat breeders, pinhookers and trainers. A summary of the thoroughbred lots are as follows:
Sainte Qualite, a five-year-old daughter of leading sire Saint Des Saints. This half-sister to the Grade 3 Cheltenham Festival winner Qualando (Fred Winter Hurdle, Paul Nicholls), Cap Du Nord (Christian Williams), Qui Ira Loin (Evan Williams) and Au Quart De Tour (Willie Mullins), from the family of Grade 1 winner Gardons Le Sourire, is in foal for the first time to leading sire Cokoriko, and is due in February 2022. Moonta is a two-year-old filly by the Group 1 winner Spanish Moon, the sire of Laurina. Four of her siblings have run, producing three winners and a placed horse. Best of the trio is Salsaretta, a Grade 2 chase winner last year for Willie Mullins. He also trained another winning sibling, Breaken, while the third winner is Doctor Ken. This 2021 bumper winner for Olly Murphy is hugely exciting, and cost €130,000 as a store. Blue Mood, in foal to first-season sire Chachnak and due in early March 2022, is a daughter of Invincible Spirit. Her first two foals are winners, and she has young stock by Kendargent, Wings Of Eagles, Le Havre and Morpheus. A winner at two, she is from the immediate family of the siblings Showcasing and Camacho. She is in foal to a dual Group 3 winning son of Kingman. Representing an AQPS family that has been very successful for Patrice Vagne, this late May colt foal by Grade 2 Auteuil winner and Grade 1-placed Tunis is out of a winning granddaughter of Monsun. He is the second foal of his dam and he is from the second crop of Tunis, who covered 280 mares in his first three seasons at stud. This is the family of Epi Sacre and Medison.There is a second member of this family for sale, and that is the above colt’s yearling half-sister by Singspiel’s son Secret Singer. Among that Group 1-placed sire’s best runners is the aforementioned Epi Sacre, a listed winner over jumps last year and runner-up in the Grade 1 Prix Maurice Gillois. Manaeast is a two-year-old gelding from the second crop of Group 2 winner Manatee (Monsun). This gelding’s half-sisters Mansionsa and Dafeast, their dam’s only runners, are winners, and Maniosa has been successful five times. Their Mansonnien dam is a half-sister to blacktype winner East Lawyer, and this is the family of 2021 Punchestown winner Koshari (not credited on the pedigree page as being a blacktype winner!). Another daughter of Invincible Spirit for sale is Dourada, a winner and dam of two winners and a placed horse with her first three runners. She is due in early March 2022 to Triple Threat, a son of Monsun who won a Group 2 in France and a Grade 2 in the USA. His first runners, just three-year-olds, include winners on the flat. The mares has young stock by Al Wukair and Zarak, the latter a foal of 2021.A wonderful chance to acquire a mare in foal, due early March 2022, to leading National Hunt sire Kapgarde, whose 2021 fee was €15,000. Red Love Moon is a flat and jumps winning daughter of Monsun, and her first foal is a winner. She has a two-year-old filly by Kapgarde, while her 2021 foal is a colt by Kingfisher. Red Love Moon is a half-sister to listed winner Red Line. This is a rare opportunity to buy a mare in foal to Kapgarde. Great Trip, a daughter of Lemon Drop Kid, won in France and her first foal, who sold for €130,000 as a yearling, is a dual winner for Mark Johnston. Great Trip’s group-placed dam, Sweet Travel (Danzig), is a full-sister to Group 1 winner Iron Mask, and this is the family of Dayjur and many other top-class runners. Great Trip is due in early May 2022 to first-season sire Chachnak, a group-winning son of Kingman.Grade 2 winner of eight races over jumps, Voiladenuo (Network) has made a very good start at stud, and he is the covering sire for Peace City (Elusive City), whose first foal by Kapgarde, the four-year-old Peace Garden, is a winner and Grade 3-placed over fences. Peace City is also a half-sister to the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle winner Peace And Co. This is the family of successful NH sire Pistolet Bleu.In foal to Kingman’s son Chachnak, the Street Sense mare Pyramid Street, who produced a colt this year by Shalaa, is the dam of a winner and two placed horses with her first three foals. She has two US graded-placed siblings, and she comes from the family of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, French Derby and Grand Prix de Paris winner, and sire, Peintre Celebre. The German Derby winner Kamsin is well-known for his winners under both codes, and he is sire of a two-year-old filly, the first foal of a placed half-sister to the multiple stakes-placed Lord Of Gracie. Their winning Acatenango dam is a daughter of stakes-winner Hesperia, the dam of seven winners, including blacktype performers on the flat and over hurdles.Another in foal to Kingman’s son Chachnak is the Dansili mare Aimante, a half-sister to Irish Group 3 and US Grade 3 winner Xenobia. Their dam Acago (Royal Academy) won a Group 3 in France and her full-sister was runner-up in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac. This is the family of Grade 1 winners Dare And Go and Go Deputy. Aimante has two placed runners, and her 2021 foal is by Cloth Of Stars. The last of the mares in foal to Chachnak is Candinie, the dam of the Grade 1 Grande Steeple National winner at Pisa, Candalex. He has won 12 times, and is the best of his dam’s three winners with her first three foals. This daughter of Bernardini is due in early March and her Siyouni three-year-old, a €200,000 yearling, was runner-up this year and is in training with Roger Varian. The last lot in the sale is Knightfall, a two-year-old daughter of Ivanhowe, a son of Soldier Hollow. Ivanhowe won two Group 1 races in Germany and another two in Australia. This filly is the second progeny of her Peintre Celebre dam, the first is last year’s dual listed jumps winner Born To Hold. Their dam is a half-sister to the Listed Prix Finot Hurdle winner at Auteuil, Here I Am. For details, photographs and pedigrees of all the lots for sale, visit https://auctav.com/en/ventes.php Katie Rudd will also be happy to assist anyone interested in knowing more about the lots, how to bid and more, and she can be contacted on +353 87 6369979