Osarus La Teste Yearling Sale catalogue now online

The catalogue is now online for the Osarus La Teste Yearling Sale which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year with 150 horses entered for the sale on Tuesday, August 30.

Almost 60 individual stallions are represented in the catalogue headed by the French champion Kendargent with support provided by rising star Zarak. Other established names in the catalogue include Intello, Goken, Dabirsim and Toronado.

Zelzal, who is the sire of three stakes winners in his first crop, is another second-crop sire with a presence at La Teste while this year's first season sires such as the Scat Daddy sons Seabhac and Seahenge have representatives of their second crops catalogued.

Among the sires with their first yearlings for sale at La Teste are Taj Mahal, a Group 2-winning and Group 1-placed full-brother to Gleneagles, Marvellous, Happily and Joan Of Arc.

Other familiar names among the first season sires include Donjuan Triumphant, a son of Dream Ahead who won the Group 1 British Champions Sprint, the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud winner Robin Of Navan, Le Havre's Prix Greffuhle-winning son Roman Candle and Tornibush who was the first Group winner for French star striker Antoine Greizmann.

Haras de Colleville's Kendargent is responsible for one of the pedigree picks of the sale (lot 27) a full-brother to Listed Prix des Lilas winner Snow Bell, offered by Haras de la Cote Fleurie.

La Motteraye Consignment offers a Dabirsim colt (130) out of the Listed Prix d'Automne winner and Group 3 Prix Fille de l'Air second Glowing Cloud by Dylan Thomas.

Three lots later (133) comes a Captain Chop three-parts brother to Gooseley Chop, the dam of multiple Group 3 winner, Group 1 King's Stand Stakes third and sire Goken. A half-brother to seven winners, he is consigned by Haras des Faunes.

The sale's most famous Group 1-winning graduate is Trueshan, who won the Gold Cup and Goodwood Cup last season for Alan King. The Planteur gelding was bought for just €8,000 by Pegasus Bloodstock from Haras de Clairefontaine at the 2017 sale.

Sands Of Mali, who won the Group 1 British Champions Sprint, is another bargain buy sourced at La Teste. Ballyhane Stud's son of Panis was purchased by Con Marnane for €20,000 from Haras des Faunes in 2016. Also a graduate of that edition of the sale is Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks winner Fatale Bere, a daughter of Pedro The Great, who cost Joel Boisnard €14,000 from Haras de la Haie Neuve.

The full catalogue is available to view here.

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