LAST year’s edition of the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale had a remarkable result for Norman and Janet Williamson’s Oak Tree Farm near Athboy, Co Meath. A new European record price for a horse sold at the breeze up sales, €2,300,000, was achieved for a son of Justify (Scat Daddy) that the couple bought the previous September at Keeneland for $150,000. Another son of the Ashford Stud-based sire sold for a million at the sale.

Among the seven yearlings by Justify catalogued for today’s edition of the sale are six from Irish vendors, and the first of these is another from Oak Tree Farm. Lot 9 is a half-brother to 10 winners, three of them stakes winners, and the best of these is the Grade 3 winner Carve (First Samurai) who placed in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby. His A P Indy (Seattle Slew) dam was a placed half-sister to the champion Blame (Arch), now a multiple Grade 1 sire. This colt cost Norman Williamson $250,000.