SIBLINGS to Grade 1 winners July Flower and Talk The Talk are among 121 lots to be offered at Aktem’s National Hunt 48H Sale at Maisons-Laffitte on Friday, November 13th, ahead of a highly-anticipated weekend of racing at Auteuil.
Six wildcards have boosted the original catalogue, comprising of foals, yearlings, two-year-olds, broodmares, horses in training and a breeding right to Goliath du Berlais.
The Haras de la Tuilerie resident rose to a fee of €20,000 this year, with his 2027 fee yet to be announced, following a year in which his progeny sold for up to €275,000 at the Irish store sales. His son Monster Truck topped the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale at £530,000, where his daughter Palinca and gelding Monzon Sport fetched £400,000.
The catalogue also features two yearlings and three two-year-olds by the exciting young sire, including a half-sister to Grade 2 Prix Magalen Bryant Hurdle heroine Kamsinea (Lot 78). They feature alongside young stock by the likes of Choeur Du Nord, Cokoriko, Crystal Ocean, Great Pretender, Masked Marvel, Nirvana Du Berlais, Spanish Moon, Telecaster, Tunis and Walk In The Park.
Lot 3: Ocean Gold is a two-year-old gelding by Crystal Ocean, out of black-type mare from the family of Quel Esprit and Ashroe Diamond
Lot 30B: Two-year-old City Light colt Just Ken made a winning debut at Deauville last month for Tim Donworth
Lot 39: Baron Noir is a yearling colt out of Grade 2 winner Kamsinea, from the first crop of Authorized’s Grade 1 performer Leon du Berlais
Lot 40B: Alma Marceau is the dam of Willie Mullins’ dual Grade 1 winner Gala Marceau. The well-bred Kendargent mare is offered in foal to Zarakem, a Group 2 winner and Group 1 performer by Zarak
Lot 42: L’Auteuil is a two-year-old colt by Great Pretender, out of dual Grade 1 winner L’Autonomie
Lot 50: Breeding right to Goliath Du Berlais
Lot 52B: Zarak yearling half-sister to graded hurdler Brentford Hope (Camelot)
Lot 57: Pauletta, a full-sister to One For Arthur, carrying her first cover to Zarakem
Lot 66: By Nirvana du Berlais, Mary Joly is a two-year-old half-sister to dual Grade 3 winner Hell Boy and listed-winning hurdler Hell’s Queen
Lot 73: Joshua Tree yearling half-brother to Grade 1 winner Sain d’Esprit
Lot 75: By Choeur du Nord, Preums Desbois is a two-year-old grandson of Grade 1 Prix Renaud du Vivier winner Shekira
Lot 87: Start Walking is a yearling full-sister to Grade 1-winning novice hurdler Talk The Talk and a half-sister to this year’s Derby Sale top lot
Lot 90B: Four-year-old Nirvana Du Berlais gelding Fanfaron is offered by Hugo Merienne after finishing third in a listed hurdle at Compiegne
Lot 94: Walk In The Park yearling filly out of a Grade 2-winning Saint des Saints mare
Lot 96: By Great Pretender, Orella is a two-year-old half-sister to Grade 1 winner July Flower
Lot 101: Bebe Roi, a two-year-old gelding by Beaumac de Houelle, is a half-brother to two graded winners, out of a Grade 1-placed mare