De Treville Colt Leads Low-Key Start to Arqana Part 2 at €95,000

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Part 2 of the Arqana October Sale kicked off on Thursday with another 154 yearlings going under the hammer, the pick of which was a De Treville colt from the Haras des Capucines draft who fetched €95,000.

Bought by trainer Christophe Escuder, lot 428 was making his second appearance on the Deauville sales ground, having fetched €26,000 when Sumbe offered him as a foal at the December Breeding Stock Sale. He is a sibling to three winners out of the winning Galileo mare Gagarina, including a full-sister in Gregarina whose four career victories included the G3 Athasi Stakes, plus a pair of Listed contests in France.

Of the 154 lots offered, 117 sold (76%) for an aggregate sum of €3,128,000. The average was €26,735 and the median was €21,000, with the second session of Part 2 set to get underway at 2pm (local time) on Friday. Whilst the figures for the opening session were significantly down across the board compared to the corresponding day last year, it should be remembered that a change of format for 2025 saw an extra day added to Part 1.

Haras d'Haspel was responsible for two of the other headline acts on Thursday, namely a colt by Mohaather who went through the ring as lot 359 and a Zelzal filly who was offered later in the afternoon as lot 382.

From a five-strong draft, Haras d'Haspel had four sold for a total of €209,000, headed by the Mohaather colt – from the family of the dual G1 Yorkshire heroine Only Royale (Caerleon) and G1 Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance (Pentire) – who went the way of Markus Nigge for €90,000.

As for the Zelzal filly, a half-sister to the Listed winner Bebeautiful (Le Havre), she sold to Bloodstock Services for €80,000. Her dam is an unraced half-sister to the top-class sprinter Gordon Lord Byron (Byron), while this is also the family of another multiple Group 1 winner in Godolphin's Barney Roy (Excelebration).

Nicolas Lefevre of Equos Racing teamed up with trainer Henri-Francois Devin to feature among the most prolific buyers on Thursday, securing three yearlings together for a total of €207,000. The most significant spend was the €80,000 it cost to secure lot 480, a Muhaarar filly from Haras de Montaigu in what could be a sign of things to come following Montaigu's recent acquisition of Shadwell's champion sprinter.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the distance spectrum, the sole yearling by star stayer Stradivarius to go under the hammer on Thursday found favour with Jeremy Brummitt and Quantum Leap Racing. Consigned by Haras de Grandcamp, the colt already named Lubianus (lot 487) – the first foal out of the G3 Prix Belle de Nuit third Lubiane (Authorized) – sold for €72,000 to secure his place among the five most expensive lots.

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