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Tuesday, February 16th - Saint-Cloud. The first sale organized by Arqana this year, the February Mixed sale, ended by 7pm Tuesday with an all-around increase of the main figures. 218 lots were presented throughout the sale and 129 were sold (59%) for a combined €1,128,500 (+38%) at an average price of €9,024 (+60%) and a median price settling at €4,000 (+33%). The only figure down is the number of lots sold as 144 of the 212 lots presented last year were sold.
The sale was conducted at Saint-Cloud rather than Deauville, where the sales pavilion is being partly rebuilt to accommodate the offices of the agency and the agents’ boxes. The Deauville site will reopen for the August yearling sale and the second part of the program will start in December so that come August 2011, a completely revamped pavilion will welcome the yearlings born this year.
The 27 first lots of the sale were consigned within the late Zakaria Hakam’s bloodstock dispersal. This consignment greatly helped Arqana to raise again the sale’s standards as the 20 lots sold made €517,000.
One of the most anticipated lots, the 97, was retiring owner Freddy Tondelier’s Blue Bresil (Smadoun), who performed both over the flat at 3 in 2008 and over the jumps last season as a 4yo. A full brother to Prix de Flore (Gr3) winner Miss Salvador, Blue Bresil was third in two French Derby prep races and started as a jumper in a Gr3 Hurdle at Auteuil last season only to finish second to Long Run… He was placed again twice in Group company over the jumps before switching back to the flat with a final win. He was asked a lot and gave even more. Such a tough guy was always going to fetch a nice sum and after all, €76,000 does not look too expensive. The prospect sire was purchased by FIPS’ Herve Bunel on behalf of a group of French breeders who remain anonymous for the time being, although he will go back to the Haras de la Croix Sonnet, where he was stationed all the same. He will breed at €1,500 live foal (€1,200 for non-thoroughbreds AQPS). Other groups of breeders bid against Bunel and so did bloodstock agent Paul Nataf. The latter had just paid €26,000 for another stallion prospect, lot 96 Pearly Wells (Sadler’s Wells out of Gr1 winner Pearly Shells), bound to Libya, where Nataf has got a few client nowadays.
The top price of the sale, lot 21, A Muhtathir 2yo filly, was bought €77,000 by Sylvain Vidal on behalf of Gerard Augustin-Normand. She will be trained by Mikel Delzangles and is bound to join the mares band which Vidal bought to meet his patron’s sire Le Havre in due course. “Her dam has already given a nice Lando colt (Ivory land, winner of the 2009 Criterium de Bordeaux). She’s by Peintre Celebre and has a German family that would match Le Havre’s bloodlines,” said Vidal to Jour de Galop.
The mentioned dam, Ivory Coast (Peintre Celebre), lot 6, sold in foal to Desert Style, was bought €54,000 by David Redvers, and so was her yearling filly by Muhtathir, lot 12, paid €36,000 by the British agent.
Lot 26, Zack Hall (Muhtathir), an unraced three-year-old colt, was snapped up for €56,000 by French bloodstock agent Hubert Barbe. This half-brother to a Prix Fille de l’Air (Gr3) winner will remain with trainer Mikel Delzangles and shall represent French owner Mathieu Offenstadt’s colours.
FIPS was the main bidder on the day however with 9 lots bought for €133,000 while Vidal got 3 lots for €125,500. Hyperactive French agent Guy Petit nevertheless purchased 14 lots for €80,500, including lot 9, a Whywhywhy yearling filly for €14,000, and lot 11, a Hold That Tiger yearling colt for €12,000 which will both be trained by leading Swiss handler Miroslav Weiss.
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