French Breeding Sale Offers Opportunity

Media Release - Friday December 6

Arqana’s Vente d’Elevage broodmare and weanling sale in picturesque Deauville in December gives Australian breeders a great opportunity to acquire some quality European pedigrees and much needed outcross bloodlines.

As usual there are offerings from the revered French breeders HRH The Aga Khan, Wertheimer and Frere, Haras De Etreham, Monceaux, Capucines and Le Motteraye and Godolphin who all have some impeccably bred lots. 

Stud masters should look into buying superior fillies or mares by the outstanding European stallions that we do not have access to.

Those stallions include the likes of,

SEA THE STARS who is an outstanding stallion that isalso creating a legacy through his daughters;

  • As a broodmare sire SEA THE STARS has an elite 7.5% Stakes winners to runners ratio with 47 SW including 7 Gr1 winners
  • He is represented by 20 mares including 9 maidens ideal to be imported to our shores

There is no doubting the greatness of FRANKEL, and his daughters are sure to continue his influence;

  • already FRANKEL has left 11 stakes winners and looks sure to be the next superstar broodmare sire much like his sire Galileo
  • there are 11 mares to Frankel to choose from in the catalogue

DUBAWI is an unbelievable stallion;

  • his daughters have produced the likes of ZARDOZI, MILITARIZE and WITHOUT A FIGHT Down Under amongst his 83 stakes winners
  • There are 20 lots by Dubawi including 8 maidens 

LOPE DE VEGA is a horse we know well;

  • this son of SHAMARDAL’s bloodlines click really well with our stallions, as a dam sire he has already sired 17 SW
  • he is represented by 14 lots in the sale

Other prominent European stallions I would encourage breeders to look at are mares by SIYOUNI, WOOTTON BASSETT, KINGMAN, CAMELOT as the emerging star sire ZARAK. 

Osmose (Fr) was purchased from the sale and is now a G3 winner in Australia - image Steve Hart

This sale also gives buyers the opportunity to acquire fillies and mares as racing prospects. First Light Racing spotted OSMOSE at this sale in 2022 when she had won two races from seven starts. 

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After purchasing her at auction, they sent her to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and turned her into a G3 winner of the Epona Stakes at Randwick and has been Group placed on another five occasions. As a result, OSMOSE would be worth many times her purchase price!

Sparkling Plenty will be a star attraction.

The most high-profile racing prospect in the catalogue is sure to be Lot 200 – the SPARKLING PLENTY, a daughter of KINGMAN. She is being offered to dissolve a partnership and is currently in training.

Lot 180 – SPANISH EYES is an interesting prospect, this German-bred daughter of ZARAK was a winner on debut over 1800m. She then went on to run a slashing second in the G1 German Oaks at her third start and is a most promising type who will only continue to improve into her four-year-old career. 

Lot 138 – GRAND STARS had a valuable pedigree update when she won her last start at Saint Cloud on November 10thin a Listed event over 2000m. Trained by Gerald Mosse, this daughter of SEA THE STARS has now won three of her five race starts – all this season!
 

We have compiled a short list of pedigrees in English in Arion style for those not so great with the French language. 

For this extensive list of racing and breeding prospects, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Arqana Australasian Representative; Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock Agency. 

For any questions or further information on how you can join us in travelling to Deauville for the sale, please contact:

Damon Gabbedy – Belmont Bloodstock Agency

damon@belmontbloostock.com

(+61) 408 007 786

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