Half to Last Year’s Top Lot Features in Arqana August Yearling Sale Catalogue

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The catalogue for the Arqana August Yearling Sale was published on Wednesday, with 307 lots set to go under the hammer in Deauville between August 16-18. The first two sessions, each featuring 80 yearlings, will get underway at 5.30pm, before the remaining lots go through the ring in a final session which kicks off at 11am.

Look De Vega, Ramatuelle and Shin Emperor feature among the top-class graduates of this sale in recent years, in addition to the G1 Champion Stakes and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Sealiway, who will come full circle when three yearlings from his first crop go under the hammer. Another first-crop stallion, Baaeed, has nine yearlings catalogued, with Bayside Boy (two yearlings), Blackbeard (six), Naval Crown (one), State Of Rest (two), Thunder Moon (one) and Torquator Tasso (two) also falling into the same category.

Of the more established sires, the catalogue also features colts and fillies by the likes of Australia, Blue Point, Camelot, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Frankel, Galiway, Havana Grey, Invincible Spirit, Kingman, Kodiac, Lope De Vega, Mehmas, New Bay, Night Of Thunder, No Nay Never, Sea The Stars, Siyouni, Sioux Nation, Starspangledbanner, Too Darn Hot, Wootton Bassett and Zarak, as well as the American-based stallions American Pharoah, Bolt d'Oro, Justify, Medaglia d'Oro and Not This Time.

Lot 206 is sure to attract plenty of interest as a Night Of Thunder half-sister to last year's top lot, Écurie des Monceaux's filly by St Mark's Basilica who sold to MV Magnier for €1,700,000. Their dam, Prudenzia, has already produced the Group 1 winners Chicquita and Magic Wand.

Other yearlings of note include lot 101, a Kingman filly out of a half-sister to Calyx, from Haras des Capucines; lot 127, Haras d'Etreham's first-crop son of Baaeed, a half-brother to multiple Group winner Maranoa Charlie; lot 149, a Frankel colt who is the first foal out of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Mangoustine, offfered by Monceaux; and lot 210, Haras du Cadran's Lope De Vega colt from the family of Group 1 winners Call The Wind, Friendly Soul, Kelina, We Are and With You.

The full catalogue is available to view here.

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