Poule d'Essai des Pouliches runner-up Commes sold to Teruya Yoshida

Commes, beaten just a nose into second by Castle Lady in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches last month, has been sold to Teruya Yoshida and will carry the Japanese owner-breeder's silks in the Prix de Diane according to Jour de Galop.

The Jean-Claude Rouget-trained filly had previously carried the silks of her breeder, Gerard Augustin-Normand, owner of her excellent sire Le Havre.

It is not the first time a top-class daughter of Le Havre owned or part-owned by Augustin-Normand has been sold to Yoshida as La Cressonniere and Avenir Certain, both winners of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane, headed to Japan to be bred from after their racing careers.

Yoshida also bought Kenhope, a Group 1-placed daughter of Kendargent, and bred from her the three-year-old Le Havre filly Pourville, who dead-heated to win a Grade 2 at Hanshin in March.

Commes is out of the Stormy River mare Leaupartie, who finished sixth in the Prix de Diane before beating Romantica to take the Prix de Psyche and then running second to that rival in the Prix de la Nonette.

She is set to be partnered by Cristian Demuro in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly on June 16, and the French press reported that she is unlikely to leave France before the end of the year.

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