Siblings to Group 1 winners set to soar at Arqana's February Sale

Arqana's sales year gets under way on Tuesday with a catalogue that offers something to suit every taste, from weanlings to broodmare prospects on the Flat and over jumps.

The 2021 February Mixed Sale was headed by a sibling to a top-class jumper with Highflyer Bloodstock's €250,000 purchase of Hardi Du Mesnil, a winning half-brother to dual Grade 1 winner Gaillard Du Mesnil, and the horses-in-training section which begins the two-day sale on Tuesday includes exciting young National Hunt racing and breeding prospects.

Golden Park (145) won the Grade 3 Prix de Chambly and is from the family of Alan King's Maghull Novices' Chase and Ascot Chase winner Balder Succes. The six-year-old is by Walk In The Park, the hottest sire in National Hunt racing, and has to rank as an excellent broodmare prospect.

Nicolas Clement consigns an unraced filly from the second crop of the brilliant young sire New Bay out of a sister to the dam of Preis der Diana winner Miss Yoda. Morning Call (36) is Morgenlicht's second foal and the winning daughter of Sholokhov is also a half-sister to Oaks d'Italia winner Meridiana.

Haras de Bouquetot consigns a draft of breeding stock that is strong on quality, including a mare whose family made headlines at the weekend. Galileo's daughter Ghand (193) is a sister to Ribblesdale runner-up Field Of Miracles, the dam of Saturday's Group 3 TS Carlyon Cup winner Earlswood, who was successful twice at that level last season in Ireland for Johnny Murtagh.

Ghand is also a sister to Listed winner Cameron Highland and a half-sister to Group 3 winner Solid Stone, and is carrying a foal from the first crop of Irish 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Romanised.

The Normandy stud also offers Gherbal (285), a five-year-old Siyouni three-parts sister to Prix de l'Abbaye winner Maarek. Unraced, she has a yearling filly by Mekhtaal and is in foal to Toronado.

Wootton Bassett's rise to the summit of European bloodstock was built on French foundations and although he now resides in Ireland there are still nuggets waiting to be discovered at Arqana.

Haras de la Haie Neuve presents a weanling half-sister to Gold Trip (148), winner of the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe who was last season placed in the Prix Ganay and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

From Haras du Mont dit Mont comes Glittering Crystal (190), a Wootton Bassett half-sister to the redoubtable Lord Glitters, the Queen Anne and Jebel Hatta winner who claimed a second successive Group 2 Singspiel Stakes last Friday.

My Rosie (234) offers an excellent pedigree and has some exciting runners to come. The eight-year-old daughter of Redoute's Choice is a half-sister to Sprint Cup winner Tante Rose and to Rosie's Posy, dam of Group 1 winners Dubawi Heights and Make Believe.

She has a four-year-old son by Frankel in training in the United States, as is her three-year-old Siyouni filly, while her two-year-old Lope De Vega colt is in Ireland and she has a yearling colt by Night Of Thunder.

Selling starts at 11am local time (10am GMT).

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