Arqana’s August yearling sales ended Thursday in Deauville, France, with a 7-percent drop in median but gains in gross receipts and average price.
The four-day auction, which included a two-night boutique select session, produced a single seven-figure horse when Australian owner Paul Fudge’s Waratah Thoroughbreds paid 1.7 million euros, or about $2.4 million, for a Galileo daughter of Sanjida that Haras de la Perelle sold on Tuesday night.
A trio of 150,000-euro yearlings headlined the Arqana Deauville yearling sale’s third session Wednesday in France.
The three session-toppers sold for the equivalent of $216,000. They were an Acclamation (GB) colt out of the Elusive Quality mare Compulsive Quality that Prime Equestrian bought from Haras d’Etreham; a Zamindar colt out of Jarhes, by Green Desert, that Alain Decrion bought from Haras de la Perelle; and a Marju colt out of Larme that Mark Crossman purchased from Haras de la Louviere.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $100,000 filly by first-crop sire Midnight Lute topped Tuesday’s select session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale, which saw gains in average and median.
SGV Thoroughbreds purchased the dark bay or brown filly, a half-sister to millionaire graded winner Desert Code. She is a daughter of stakes-placed Wasted Wisdom, by Gold Fever. Woodford Thoroughbred agents consigned the filly, one of two yearlings to fetch six-figure bids at the select session in Ocala, Fla.
Australian buyer Paul Fudge made the early running Monday at Arqana’s Deauville August yearling sale in France, where he bought the session-topper at the opening session.
Fudge’s Waratah Thoroughbreds paid 440,000 euros, or about $633,600, for Lodge Park Stud’s Invincible Spirit colt out of three-time German champions Elle Galante, by Galileo. The bay colt’s family features the group winner Elle Shadow, a Group 1-placed runner, and to stakes-winners El Comodin and Elle Gala.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Three Chimneys Racing has privately purchased what it termed “a significant interest” in Anthony Ramsden’s San Clemente Handicap winner Up In Time, who was to start in Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks. A British-bred Noverre filly, she is 8-1 on the track’s morning line.
Up In Time will carry Three Chimneys Racing’s silks in the Del Mar Oaks.
DEL MAR, Calif. – Halo Dolly is so highly-regarded in trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s stable that she was entered for Saturday’s $250,000 Del Mar Oaks. Unfortunately, the same idea occurred to the owners and trainers of 12 other 3-year-old fillies, leaving Halo Dolly on the also-eligible list.
As a consolation, Hollendorfer has Sunday’s $100,000 Solana Beach Handicap for statebred fillies and mares over a mile on turf. In that race, Halo Dolly will be favored, and seeking her fifth consecutive win.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club has named Three Chimneys stallion manager Sandy Hatfield its 2011 Kentucky Farm Manager of the Year.
The organization presents the honor annually for excellence in farm management and for service to the club and to the community.
Littleexpectations, sire of Grade 2 winner King of the Roxy and this year’s stakes-placed runner Expecting Cash, will relocate from Louisiana to Texas for the 2012 breeding season. Littleexpectations will stand for $1,500 next year, according to Asmussen Horse Center in Laredo, Tex., where he will stand.
Marilyn and Keith Asmussen have purchased Littleexpectations, a 14-year-old Valid Appeal horse, from the group who stood him at Ro Parra’s Millennium Farms at Moon Lake in Elm Grove, La., this year. Littleexpectations stood at Moon Lake for $2,000 in 2011.