THE four-day Arqana Breeding Sale starts today [Saturday] and the catalogue of over 1,000 lots includes more than 280 foals.

Champion two-year-old Native Trail was bought for just €50,000 as a foal here and others to have passed through the ring at this sale in recent years include Group 1 winners Coeursamba, Zellie, Rougir and US Grade 1 winner Tribhuvan. Add to that this year’s Group 2 winners Alenquer, Atomic Jones and Real Appeal.

The broodmare section of the sale is also of huge interest. Plying, the dam of Alcohol Free, traded here for just €12,000 in 2013. She changed hands for €21,000 at Goffs in 2018 and famously was sold on for €825,000 last month.

More than a quarter of mares offered in this year’s catalogue have won blacktype and/or have already produced at least one blacktype horse.

The aforementioned Rougir, winner of the Prix de l’Opera on Arc day this year, returns to the Deauville sales ring today as Lot 160. Also selling today is Group 1 winner Grand Glory and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches runner-up Speak Of The Devil.

NOTABLE LOTS

Lot 136: a colt foal, half-brother by The Grey Gatsby to Alenquer.

Lot 142: JIN JIN, 5yo mare by Canford Cliffs, Group 2 winner in Germany this year.

Lot 145: a Starspangledbanner three-parts brother to Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Coeursamba.

Lot 160: ROUGIR, 3yo by Terriroties, winner of this year’s Group 1 Prix de l’Opera.

Lot 167: LANCADE, 4yo by Areion, winner of 2020 Group 2 German 1000 Guineas.

Lot 172: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, 4yo by Wootton Bassett, runner-up in 2020 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

Lot 177: SATOMI, 5yo by Teofilo, Group 2 winner in foal to Lope De Vega.

Lot 182: ALOHA STAR, 3yo by Starspangledbanner, Group 2 winner for Fozzy Stack in 2020.

Lot 188: WILDFEDER, a 3yo by Galileo, sister to multiple Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Waldgeist.

Lot 192: GRAND GLORY, 5yo by Olympic Glory, winner of the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet this year.

Lot 206: a filly foal, half-sister by Frankel to dual Group 1 winner Recoletos.

SALE INFO

Sale: Arqana Breeding Sale in Deauville.

Date: Saturday, December 4th to Tuesday, December 7th

Lots: 1,023

Web: arqana.com

Email: info@arqana.com

Tel: 0033 231 818100