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Five Wild Card Additions to Arqana December Sale

Media Release - Tuesday November 27
Arqana's Breeding Stock Sale has been further enhanced with the addition of five supplementary Wild Cards. 


FrankelFour are made up of Issam Fares's best mares through his dispersal, while the fifth is a young black-type mare in-foal to Frankel.

Aged just five, the excellent ZGHORTA DANCE (lot 140) is in foal to Muhaarar, whose yearlings commanded the highest average price of all firstcrop sires in Europe this year. Zghorta Dance won the Gr.3 Prix Vanteauxbefore taking second in the Gr.1 Premio Lydia Tesio. By Le Havre, the mare is out of a granddaughter of the champion MISS ALLEGED, who took the Gr.1 Breeders' Cup Turf in 1991. Under the care of Pascal Bary, the latter also won the Gr.1 Hollywood Turf Cup, Prix de Malleret (Gr.2) and Prix de Royaumont (Gr.3).

Offered in-foal to Kingman, whose first two-year olds got off to a very good start this season, BAINO HOPE (lot 190) won the Gr.2 Prix de Pomone as well as the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet. She is a daughter of BAINO RIDGE, an own sister to TAKE RISKSand also the dam of Listed winner BAINO ROCK.

Another daughter of BAINO RIDGE by Holy Roman Emperor, ROMAN RIDGE (lot 110) won over 1,500m and is expecting her second foal by Wootton Bassett.

A Listed winner andplaced several times at Group level over 1,200m, WEDGE TRUST (lot 100),is from the maternal line of ACT ONE, ULTRA etc. She is in-foal to Gleneagles, whose yearlings sold for up to 500,000gns in 2018.

REMEMBER YOU (lot 130), a Group performer as a two-year-old, is consigned in foal to Frankel by Haras des Capucines. This daughter of Invincible Spirit is out of a half-sister to Gr.1 placed GOVERNOR BROWN and comes from the family of SILK BLOSSOM, MASHOORA and LE MOSS. Her first foal is a two-year-old filly by Australia, that recently opened her account.

These five mares join Prix Marcel Boussac winner LILY'S CANDLE (lot 160),black-type fillies DEVANT (lot 170), NOBLESSE OBLIGE (lot 180), DIANA STORM (lot 150) as well as MOONLIGHT IN PARIS in foal to Siyouni (lot 120).

>> Find the complete list of Wild Cards here.
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