Arqana Bloodstock’s Deauville yearling sale posted a second consecutive day of strong trade on Sunday in France, highlighted by a new sale topper from prominent young stallion Dubawi.
Prominent bloodstock agent Baden P. “Buzz” Chace died on Sunday following a battle with cancer. He was 72.
Arqana Bloodstock’s three-day yearling auction at Deauville, France, began with an opening session that posted significant gains across the board, topped by a pair of seven-figure horses.
Both Orb and Palace Malice were graduates of Niall Brennan’s training program in their adolescent months, meaning the Ocala, Fla., resident quietly had a massive influence on the outcome of this year’s Triple Crown season.
The boutique Thoroughbred yearling market moves to the seaside town of Deauville, France, this weekend, where Arqana’s important August yearling auction will coincide with the Deauville racing festival’s Group 1 Prix Morny and Prix Jean Romanet.
The catalog for the Goffs Orby yearling sale is now available online, featuring a slightly expanded 425 lots.
Tuesday’s Northern California Sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton had a higher sale topper and an increase in median price from 2012, but a decline in average price.
Dancing Rain, the 2011 Epsom and German Oaks winner, will go to auction this year at the Tattersalls December sale in Newmarket, England. She is in foal to unbeaten champion and first-year sire Frankel.
The Silver Cup yearling auction sponsored by the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Association realized significant gains in average, median, and total receipts after a Pleasantly Perfect gelding brought a sales-topping bid of $42,000. The auction was held on Aug. 10 at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo.
Forty-three yearlings sold for $100,000 or more during the two-day Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale on Saturday and Sunday night at the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., propelling the sale’s average up 16 percent to $72,480.
