Con Marnane secures only No Nay Never on offer in Deauville

Bansha House Stables master Con Marnane secured the only yearling by No Nay Never on offer at the Arqana Autumn Sale this week, stretching to €52,000 for an April-born colt out of the Group 3-placed Folle Allure on Wednesday.

Marnane, whose Group 1-winning graduates include Amadeus Wolf, Robin Of Navan and Sands Of Mali, has had luck from the Autumn Sale before as it is where he sourced the Group 3-placed Another Party for €14,000.

Folle Allure is one of six black-type performers out of her winning dam Irish Arms along with Group 3 Mooresbridge Stakes scorer Nysaean and Listed winner Charme Slave.

The mare has two previous foals by Holy Roman Emperor who fetched a combined €155,000 in the same sales ring as yearlings.

No Nay Never's fee has risen to €100,000 for next year following the on-track exploits of his first crop of two-year-olds, including Middle Park Stakes hero Ten Sovereigns and Richmond Stakes scorer Land Force.

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The other headline price on the third and final day, which was devoted to 200 Flat-bred yearlings, was an Authorized colt who sold for €72,000 to Bertrand Le Metayer's BLM Bloodstock.

The January-foaled yearling is out of Morning Sun, an unraced Law Society sister to the dam of dual French Classic winner Brametot and half-sister to influential German sire Monsun.

Authorized - a capable sire of runners under both codes - became the first Derby scorer to sire the winner of the Grand National in over a century when Tiger Roll obliged at Aintree.

Le Metayer also purchased high-class jumps mare Let's Dance for €200,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland November Sale on Friday for a French client.

Figures

A more select offering than the previous year saw 139 of the 177 lots offered sell for a total of €1,149,000 at a 79 per cent clip, with an average spend of €8,266 and median of €6,000.

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