August ‘Experiment’ For Saint Pair

[Wandering Eyes]

There’s a new name on the consignors’ list at Arqana this August but it is one with an entirely familiar ring to it. Andreas Putsch’s Haras de Saint Pair has regularly been one of the headline acts of the October Yearling Sale but this year presents a pair of fillies from two very current families by way of dipping a toe in warmer waters.

“It’s the first time selling at August–it’s an experiment and let’s see how it goes,” says Putsch, who will also be active as a vendor at the Tattersalls October Sale in Newmarket. “We are trying to be here with the pedigrees with the updates so we thought it was important to bring these two fillies with updates from this year. It needs to be seen how people take to our change of policy.”

There will certainly be plenty to send potential buyers toward the filly (lot 76), who sells on Saturday night as she is by arguably France’s hottest sire, Siyouni (Fr), and is a half-sister to this season’s G2 Coventry S.-placed Guildsman (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}).

Her breeder says, “We’re very happy with her coming here. She’s done great and, like her brother, she’s quite a precocious type, not too big and mentally very forward. She’s by Siyouni and you can’t go wrong with Siyouni these days.”

Adding further depth to the family which has been successful over generations for the Aga Khan is the fact that the filly’s dam Dardiza (Ire) (Street Cry {Ire}) is herself a half-sister to the dam of France’s former champion 3-year-old Almanzor (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who has his first crop of foals on the ground.

A similarly active family is that of Monday’s offering by Intello (Ger) (lot 209). She is out of the G2 Diana-Trial runner-up Waldjagd (GB) (Observatory {GB}), the dam of Urwald (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), who will bid to follow up his win in the Listed Prix Pont Neuf earlier this year with victory in Saturday’s G3 Prix Daphnis. While that would prove yet another timely update, it is already a family with plenty going on as it includes Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), the winner earlier this year of the G1 Prix Ganay who was just touched off in the Prix du Jockey Club during his Classic season.

“Today this is really the German family and one of the top five in the studbook in Europe,” Putsch says. “Her dam had the update this year with Urwald who is running and it’s a filly, so hopefully there will be somebody trying to get into this family.”

As well as his own yearlings to be consigned, Putsch will be keeping a close eye on the first crop of his homebred G1 Prix du Moulin winner Vadamos (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}) as they come under the hammer this year, starting with a colt and a filly to be sold at the August Sale.

He says, “We kept shares in Vadamos and we used him. We are keeping a colt as we feel that what they do at two in training is very important. What I have seen of his stock here in this sale is quite nice, they are good looking and we will hope for the best.”

Putsch has been delighted with the support Vadamos has received since his retirement to Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland in 2017.

He adds, “First of all, he is a fast son of Monsun–a miler–so that’s unique for a Monsun and I think with the combination of the some of the speedy Tally-Ho mares he will do well. He’s a good-looking horse and I think that has won many breeders over. I have had breeders telling me that they didn’t want to breed to him but when they saw him they did, so I think his looks have been a very strong factor in the equation.”

Moreover, Putsch is optimistic about this season’s yearling crop in general.

“I’ve been around looking at yearlings with my daughter before the sale and it’s rare that you see so many good-looking yearlings. I think it’s a very strong crop–maybe it is because we have had so much sun this year–and I hope that this will be confirmed over the next month when we come to Tatts and Goffs.”

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