Classic Winner Tomiko Added to Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale

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This year's Oaks d'Italia winner Tomiko (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) has been added to Arqana's December Breeding Stock Sale and will be offered by Baroda Stud as lot 170 during the opening day of the sale on Saturday, December 7.

Trained by Paolo Aragoni for owner Luigi Ginobbi, Tomiko also finished third in the G2 Premio Lydia Tesio. She is one of two winners from four runners out of the unraced Lawman (Fr) mare Testimony (GB), a half-sister to the 10-time winner–including at Listed level–Saltonstall (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Her second dam is the G2 Prix de Pomone heroine and G1 Prix Royal-Oak runner-up Macleya (Ger) (Winged Love {Ire}), who is in turn kin to the G3 Prix de Barbeville winner Montclair (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and the Listed-placed Miramare (Ger) (Rainbow Quest), the dam of the G1 Prix Ganay winner and sire Mare Australis (Ire) (Australia {GB}).

Tomiko was one of five additions to the sale announced on Wednesday. The others include the Listed winners Noir (Fr) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) (lot 160) and La Guapisima (Fr) (City Light {Fr}) (lot 175), as well as the G3 Prix Thomas Bryon runner-up Iowa City (Fr) (Territories {Ire}) (lot 165) and Listed-placed two-year-old Griselda (Fr) (City Light {Fr}) (lot 150). The full catalogue is available to view here.

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