PART 2 of the Arqana Deauville Yearling Sale came agonisingly close to matching last year’s record totals, with the session topped by a daughter of Acclamation from the all-conquering Ecurie des Monceaux.

The filly is the first foal out of a Shamardal half-sister to Wild Wind. That daughter of Danehill Dancer won a listed race and was placed in the French 1000 Guineas for Aidan O’Brien before being sold for €1,175,000 as a four-year-old. This is the immediate family of Group 1 winners Rumplestiltskin, Tapestry and Real Steel, while the sale-topper’s fourth dam is Miesque, dam of Kingmambo.

Nicolas de Watrigant’s Mandore International Agency secured the filly for €320,000 and she is for an as yet unnamed Chinese client who will put her in training with Jean-Claude Rouget.

The first crop yearlings by Intello were popular throughout the opening three days of the sale and 15 of them sold for an average of €178,000. He stood his first two seasons at Cheveley Park Stud for £25,000. The Wertheimer brothers Gerard and Alain, who bred and raced the sire, paid €300,000 for Haras du Cadran’s son of the listed winner Mary’s Precedent.

Another of his sons was among the leaders on the day, when Haras du Mezeray’s son of the multiple German stakes winner Rock My Soul sold to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for €215,000.

Camas Park and Glenvale Studs combined to offer a draft of yearlings this year in Deauville and the best of their trio in Part 2 was a son of Bated Breath at €260,000. Mark Richards for the Hong Kong Jockey Club believes he is ideal for racing there, describing him as “a smooth walker with a lovely attitude.” This was the colt’s second sale ring appearance at Arqana, having realised just €45,000 as a foal.

There is a strong classic connection in the immediate family of Haras de la Louviere’s Teofilo colt that sold to Sylvain Vidal for €200,000. His dam is a half-sister to The Irish Field St Leger winner Voleuse De Coeurs, and she is too is by the Dewhurst Stakes winner and sire of such as Havana Gold, Trading Leather and Parish Hall.

Another first-crop sire who was very popular all week in Deauville was Camelot and Charlie Gordon-Watson paid €200,000 to secure his son of the stakes-placed Halling mare Amourette to join the stables of Jean-Claude Rouget, who himself was attracted to one of the dual Derby winner’s daughters, Elevage de Tourgeville’s filly out of a half-sister to the recent group-placed Portage. She cost €160,000.

Carlos and Yann Lerner bought two fillies on the day for €180,000 each. Early in the session they acquired a daughter of Siyouni out of an own-sister to Group 1 runner-up Bernebeau, and later in the day added a Le Havre filly out of a half-sister to 2016 Grade 2 winner Pleuven to their shopping list.

Manfred Hofer paid €175,000 for a Kendargent half-brother to the 2016 German Group 2 winner Royal Solitaire who on his most recent start was runner-up in a Group 1 there. Haras du Mezeray sold a Lawman (by Invincible Spirit) filly out of a half-sister to the dam of Signs Of Blessing, a recent Group 1 winner for the veteran Irish National Stud sire. Michel Zerolo’s Oceanic Bloodstock signed the purchaser’s docket.

Agent Tina Rau’s €150,000 bid for the Irish-bred Arakan colt from Haras de Saint Isidro was enough to secure him. This half-brother to Group 1 winner Talco is also a half-brother to the dam of the 2016 stakes-winning juvenile Mokarris.