Siblings to Treve and Sottsass among the standouts at the Arqana Select Sale

A reformatted yearling auction programme kicks off in Deauville on Wednesday with the three-day Arqana Select Sale.

The French sales company has catalogued 492 lots in an offering that includes the siblings to 22 Group/Grade 1 winners and the progeny of blue-chip stallions such as Dubawi, Galileo and Siyouni.

We run the rule over the entries and pick out five potential headline acts.

Lot 30

B c Frankel - Baltic Baroness (Shamardal)
Consigned by Gestut Ammerland

Frankel's current yearlings were conceived in 2018, the year his fee rose from £125,000 to £175,000 in recognition of his debut crops having contained major talents such as Cracksman, Elarqam and Eminent, as well as classy juveniles like Fair Eva and Queen Kindly.

Among the mares who visited Frankel that year was Gestut Ammerland's homebred Group 1 winner Baltic Baroness.

The daughter of Shamardal developed into a high-class performer under the care of Andre Fabre, and rounded off her racing days by beating the likes of Dolniya, Treve and Sultanina when winning the Group 1 Prix Vermeille.

Lot 30: the Frankel colt out of Group 1 winner Baltic BaronessCredit: Gestut Ammerland

This colt is the result of that mating and is the second and final foal out of Baltic Baroness, who died aged nine. Not only is the January foal out of a Group 1-winning mare and by a champion who has already sired ten elite winners worldwide, he is also a half-brother to a decidedly smart three-year-old.

Baltic Baroness's first foal is Baltic Gold, a son of Golden Horn who took his record to two from two with an impressive display at Deauville last month.

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Lot 149

Gr c Kingman - Manerbe (Unbridled's Song)
Ecurie des Monceaux

Another young stallion with a burgeoning reputation is Kingman, sire of this year's Group 1 winners Palace Pier and Persian King, who defeated Pinatubo in the Prix du Moulin on Sunday.

There are four lots in the Select Sale catalogue by the Banstead Manor Stud resident, including this striking grey colt bred by perennial leading consignor Ecurie des Monceaux. The youngster is out of the Unbridled's Song mare Manerbe, who has already produced three black-type performers.

Lot 149: the Kingman colt out of Manerbe strikes a pose at Ecurie des MonceauxCredit: Zuzanna LUPA

Her brood is headed by Marbre Rose, a daughter of Smart Strike who won the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes for Christophe Clement. Manerbe also produced Gidu, a son of Frankel who was bought by Justin Casse for €410,000 in 2016 before going on to claim multiple stakes races for Todd Pletcher and Zayat Stables.

In 2017, a Shamardal filly out of Manerbe sold to the Roth family's LNJ Foxwoods through Alex Solis and Jason Litt for €450,000. Subsequently named Aviatress and sent into training with master trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre, the filly struck at stakes level when winning the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr.

Lot 199

B c Galileo - Prudenzia (Dansili)
Ecurie des Monceaux

This blue-blooded youngster hails from a family with a rich history of success, both on the racetrack and in the Arqana sales ring. He is a sibling to seven winners, including two elite-level scores, namely his Galileo sister Magic Wand and three-parts sister Chicquita, who struck in the Irish Oaks.

His dam is out of Monceaux foundation mare Platonic, making her a half-sister to the likes of Pacifique, herself the dam of €2.6 million August Sale record-setter Parabellum, and English King.

Lot 199 Galileo x Prudenzia Ecuries Des Monceaux, 13/08/2020, photo: Zuzanna LupaCredit: Zuzanna LUPA

Prudenzia's progeny have proved a smash hit in the Deauville auction ring with remarkable consistency, with no fewer than five yearlings out of the daughter of Dansili selling for a seven-figure sum.

In total, the progeny of Prudenzia have generated €8.195m in yearling receipts, while Chicquita set an Irish record when selling for €6m as a three-year-old at Goffs in 2013, the year of her Classic victory.

Those yearling figures include the €1.625m given for Philomene, the Dubawi filly who topped last year's August Sale when hammered down to Godolophin. The two-year-old has added further lustre to her Galileo half-brother's page, as she made a winning debut for Andre Fabre at Longchamp last Thursday.

Lot 251

Ch f Dubawi - Starlet's Sister (Galileo)
Ecurie des Monceaux

This filly is the latest offering from Monceaux's burgeoning blue hen Starlet's Sister. The dam has produced three winners, all of whom have struck at stakes level, including two who have landed multiple top-level races on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Starlet's Sister's first foal is Sistercharlie who, despite being bred from Myboycharlie at a fee of just €6,500, has won a staggering seven Grade 1 contests for Chad Brown and Peter Brant, a record that marks her down as one of the finest mares to grace American turf in recent times.

Next came My Sister Nat, a daughter of Acclamation who won a Longchamp Group 3 while in training in France and added the Grade 3 Waya Stakes having joined Brown and Brant in the US.

Lot 251: the Dubawi half-sister to Sistercharlie and SottsassCredit: Zuzanna LUPA

Of course, Starlet's Sister is also the dam of Sottsass, a son of Siyouni who won last year's Prix du Jockey Club and this year's Prix Ganay for Brant and Jean-Claude Rouget. Sottsass could supply whoever buys Starlet's Sister's Dubawi filly with a big update as early as this weekend, as he is due to tackle the Irish Champion Stakes.

The racecourse success of Starlet's Sister's early progeny have propelled her more recent offering into six-figure territory, with her 2018 yearling, a Charm Spirit colt, having fetched €400,000, while last year David Redvers gave €700,000 for her Fastnet Rock colt, who has been named Parliament and is in training with John Gosden.

Lot 269

B f Motivator - Trevise (Anabaa)
Haras du Quesnay

Few fillies have captured the imagination like Treve did during her glorious racing career. The mighty daughter of Motivator won six Group 1s, including back-to-back Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes, and it will be fascinating to see what the market makes of her full-sister when she is offered by the Head family's Haras du Quesnay late on Thursday.

Treve also won the Prix de Diane, the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud and two Prix Vermeilles, and has opened her account as a broodmare, with her first foal, the Dubawi colt Qous, having struck at Chantilly earlier this year.

Treve is not the only source of black type in a pedigree that would take pride of place in just about any broodmare band the world over, with her dam also having produced Treve's Listed-winning siblings Trois Rois and Trophee. The family traces back to the likes of Prix Saint-Alary winner Treble and Sprint Cup hero Tamarisk.

Other members of Trevise's brood have appeared on the public market before, albeit with mixed results. Terre, another sister to Treve, was offered at Arqana in 2015, but was led out unsold at €1.2m. However, when she was reoffered at Tattersalls some four years later she fetched 680,000gns from Hillwood Bloodstock.

Treve herself came on the market at the Arqana October Yearling Sale in 2011, where she went unsold at just €22,000. Her exploits will ensure her yearling sister is worth considerably more.

Arqana Select Sale factfile

Where Arqana sales complex, Deauville

When Three-day sale begins on Wednesday at 1pm (2pm local time)

Last year's August Sale stats From 304 lots offered, 228 sold (75 per cent) for turnover of €42,789,000 (up 16 per cent year-on-year), an average of €187,670 (up 17 per cent) and a median of €125,000 (up 16 per cent)

Last year's V2 Sale stats From 139 offered lots, 110 sold (79 per cent) for turnover of €4,080,000 (up 15 per cent), an average of €37,090 (up 12 per cent) and a median of €31,000 (up 15 per cent)

Notable graduatesMagic Wand (offered by Monceaux, bought by Peter and Ross Doyle, MV Magnier and Mayfair Speculators for €1.4 million); Sottsass (Monceaux, bought by Oceanic Bloodstock for €340,000); Uni (Haras d'Etreham, bought by The Channel Consignment for €40,000); Enbihaar (Haras du Mezeray, bought by Shadwell France for €500,000)

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