Up and coming consignor Charles Briere set to sell first draft outside France

Fresh from having his eye for a future star and expertise in yearling preparation advertised by Royal Ascot winner Arizona, up and coming consignor Charles Briere will sell horses outside of France for the first time this year.

Briere, 32, who operates under the Fairway Consignment banner, pinhooked Arizona for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale and resold him to Coolmore for €260,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale.

The son of No Nay Never has won two of his last three starts for Aidan O'Brien, including when seeing off the exciting prospects Threat and Guildsman to land the Coventry Stakes, with Briere on hand to cheer his former charge into the winner's enclosure.

Briere will return to Britain with a small, select draft at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in the autumn, a tentative first international expansion to supplement the larger Fairway Consignment delegations at Arqana and Osarus in France.

“We'll be bringing two or three horses over to Book 2 and it will be our first time selling there,” said Briere. “We have an Elusive Quality filly we bought in Tattersalls last year [out of Earth Goddess; cost 40,000gns] who we are looking forward to presenting in Britain.

“She is very closely related to Coeur De Beaute, who won the Prix Imprudence and finished second in the Pouliches, so the pedigree would have been popular in France but it is a very international further family further back – that of Henrythenavigator and Magician – and her sire is known around the world. So, we thought we would take her to Tattersalls.”

Arizona is not the only Fairway Consignment yearling graduate flying the flag for Briere on the track. This season's Prix Saint-Alary second Olendon was sold to Sylvain Vidal at Arqana V2 for €65,000 while Listed winner and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere fourth Boitron was knocked down to Vidal and Mandore for €45,000 at Osarus.

This week though, Briere – a seller for all seasons – is focusing on older horses rather than yearlings.

He has six stores, including colts by Blue Bresil and Cokoriko, and a trio of three-year-old fillies, including Floret, an unraced Galileo half-sister to Moonlight Cloud, to sell at the Arqana Summer Sale, which begins its two-day run in Deauville on Tuesday.

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