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ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:39 pm
by tachyon
-- catalogue
http://www.arqana.com/catalogue/august_ ... t_2015/198
lot 176
2014 filly(FR) - Motivator(GB) x Trevise(FR)
spitting image!
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:17 pm
by tachyon
Treve's little sister set to sell on Sunday.
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:12 pm
by tachyon
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:02 pm
by carole
3/4 brother to Lope De Vega just sold for 720,000 Euros
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 4:05 am
by tachyon
Al Shaqab Racing snapped up the first Frankel yearling to go under the hammer in Saturday's opening session of the Arqana August Yearling Sale for €300,000.
photo@SMBloodstock
Lot41. 2014 colt(GB) - Frankel(GB) x Danceabout(GB)
http://www.arqana.com/lots/vente_de_yea ... /198/60355
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:05 pm
by tachyon
Wow! New sales record!!!
Lot 119 Dubawi colt out of Pacifique hammered down at €2.6 million to John Ferguson.
http://www.arqana.com/lots/vente_de_yea ... /198/60433
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 1:08 pm
by carole
Hip 142 is coming up. This daughter of Galileo is out of the Grade 1 winning Royal Highness who has produced graded stakes winner Free Port Lux
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:06 pm
by Flanders
The only other one who went over €1 million, is hip 127 f. by Frankel - Platonic, by Zafonic. She sold for €1.15 million and if a half-sister to Pacfique.
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:09 pm
by carole
Half sis to champion Stacelita by Frankel just went for what seems like a low 450,000 Euros
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:11 pm
by ThreeMustangs
carole wrote:Half sis to champion Stacelita by Frankel just went for what seems like a low 450,000 Euros
Does seem a little low. Was she on the small side or was the handler tall?
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:43 pm
by Flanders
Treve's sister is next.
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:45 pm
by Flanders
Do they ring the bell when a reserve is met?
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:51 pm
by Flanders
Flanders wrote:Treve's sister is next.
Surprisingly, just €1.2 million.
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:51 pm
by carole
Treve's sister goes for 1.2 million Euros
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:03 pm
by carole
Must say that was rather disappointing, the bidding barely lasted 2 mins. And that awkward silence when no one wanted to bid above 1.2million
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:07 pm
by Flanders
carole wrote:Must say that was rather disappointing, the bidding barely lasted 2 mins. And that awkward silence when no one wanted to bid above 1.2million
Agree. I was expecting more fireworks which is why I was watching. Honestly it felt like a waste of time.
When she started at 500,000 I thought she would really go up, but it was slow.
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:12 pm
by carole
Well this is interesting...
RP Bloodstock @rpbloodstock 21m21 minutes ago
Treve sister not sold - a €1.2 million vendor buy back
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:30 pm
by carole
Arqana: lot 185, an Invincible Spirit colt from the family of Vadawina - from Monceaux again! - sells for €1.4 million late in the sale
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:24 pm
by tachyon
I couldn't stay up late last night.
But it looks like the main feature of this sales was not 'Treve' but 'Chicquita''.
Yes, everyone knew she was so talented, haha.
http://bloodstock.racingpost.com/news/b ... s/1936178/
Re: ARQANA August Yearling Sale
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:01 am
by Treve
Excited that the Frankel x Platonic filly is going to Ed Dunlop!
It remains to be seen whether prospective buyers will kick themselves in the future, as they did when the Heads took Treve home after she failed to sell for €22,000 at the Arqana October Yearling Sale in 2011.
I did not know she had failed to sell for 22k
1.2 million is an expensive buyback... What I don't get is why people stopped bidding. I mean from a business pov, you wouldn't even need to race her, you could probably make some very good money just by breeding her because the value would then be in the pedigree/genetic combination. Imagine her going to Giant's Causeway, Frankel, Dubawi, Sea The Stars/Galileo/Australia etc. Those yearlings would probably sell like hotcakes.