A €620,000 daughter of Dubawi topped the first day of the Arqana Select Sale in Deauville on Wednesday. Offered by Baroda Stud, the filly (pic: Arqana/Zuzanna Lupa) out of German Gr3 winner Daytona Bay was eventually knocked down to Anthony Stroud for €620,000, the agent confirming to the auction house the purchase was made on
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Pretty Gorgeous is SW33 for Lawman after winning Saturday’s Gr2 Debutante Stakes (&f) at The Curragh. Settled in fourth place early, Pretty Gorgeous quickened into the lead two furlongs out and stayed on best of all to defeat Shale (Galileo) by 2-1/2 lengths with Mother Earth (Zoffany) the same distance away in third. Purchased as
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Wonderful Tonight is SW38 for Le Havre after winning Sunday’s Gr3 Prix Minerve (2500m) at Deauville. Wonderful Tonight made much of the running on the heavy ground and stayed on strongly over the concluding stages to hold the late challenge of the favourite Valia (Sea The Stars) by 2-1/2 lengths with Paix (Muhaarar) one length
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Port Guillaume is SW37 for Le Havre after winning Saturday’s Gr2 Prix Hocquart (2500m) at Deauville. A creditable fifth in the Prix du Jockey-Club last time out, Port Guillaume appreciated the step up in distance and after striking the front 200m stayed on strongly to defeat Ketil (Karakontie) by three lengths with Pao Alto (Intello)
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Sea The Rose is SW31 for Kendargent after winning the Gr3 Prix Six Perfections (1400m) at Deauville. Sea The Rose raced in second place to past halfway before pressing longtime leader Wedding Dance (Invincible Spirit), gradually asserting her authority to score by three-quarters of a length with Coeursamba (The Wow Signal) third. Sea The Rose
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A filly by War Front topped the Arqana Breeze-Up sale at Doncaster on Wednesday when selling to agent Kerri Radcliffe for £650,000. The Grove Stud-consigned filly was bred in North America and the second foal out of Beauty Parlor (Elusive Quality), a Listed winner in France than Grade 2 winner in the US. The granddam
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Derby du Languedoc (2400m) at Toulouse winner Step By Step is SW 3 for Sidestep. Step By Step sold for €19,000 as an Arqana Deauville yearling to Broadhurst Agency then made €26,000 at the Arqana 2YO Breeze-Up sale where he was bought by trainer Yann Barberot and has now won three of his five races.
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English breeders Richard and Sally Aston paid €62,000 for a 1/50th share in jumps stallion No Risk At All on the final day of the Arqana February mixed bloodstock sale. The 13yo son of My Risk has commenced his eighth season at Haras de Montaigu at €7,000, having covered a book of 119 mares in
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