ARQANA’s November Yearling Sale has a decidedly lower profile than those of the venue’s August and October yearling sales, as demonstrated by last year’s average price of €6,786. In its four renewals, the median has held steady at €5,000, while the top price reached new heights 12 months ago at €85,000.
The inaugural edition peaked at €57,000, falling to €30,000 a year later, before hitting €27,000. Prices aren’t always a good indication of a horse’s ability, as we all know. The sale’s star graduate, Beaute Cachee cost just €1,500 in 2020.
Third in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes last December, the daughter of Literato gained her top-flight success in the Jenny Wiley Stakes in April, before notching a pair of Graded races. Earlier this week, the Chad Brown trainee sold to Blue Diamond Stud for $700,000 - quite the mark-up on her yearling price.
Connections of Engaliwe may also be celebrating a significant return at the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale next month, the four-year-old daughter of Galiway catalogued with a Group 3 and listed win to her name, along with a Group 3 third. She sold for €8,500 at the November Yearling Sale and was resold by Sherbourne Lodge at the venue’s Summer Sale for €15,000 the following year.
187 yearlings have been catalogued for the sale’s latest renewal, which takes place on Saturday, November 18th, from 11am.
Catalogue highlights
Lot 21: Galileo Gold filly out of a Group 3-winning and Group 1-placed mare
Lot 28: City Light colt, out of Group 2 and Grade 3 winner All Is Vanity
Lot 43: Named Like No Other, this filly by Threat is a half-sister to the multiple group-placed Mamba Noir
Lot 44: Al Wukair filly out of listed winner and Group 3 runner-up Baino Rock
Lot 56: Wooded half-sister to a stakes performer, out of an own-sister to Group 1 winner Zambezi Sun
Lot 58: Romanised filly out of a blacktype own-sister to French 1,000 Guineas third Ysoldina, herself the dam of Wings Of Eagles
Lot 60: Ectot filly out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Changing Skies, a dual Grade 3 winner and placed at the highest level
Lot 65: Victor Lodorum filly, out of Grade 3 winner and Grade 1 American Oaks third Consumer Credit
Lot 95: Cloth Of Stars half-brother to a stakes horse, out of an own-sister to Group 1 performers Air Chief Marshal and Foxtrot Romeo
Lot 102: Dariyan filly is a granddaughter of Irish Oaks heroine Vintage Tipple
Lot 109: Kendargent colt out of a listed winner, from the family of Gamut, Golan, North Light and Sought Out
Lot 112: Almanzor filly out of a Frankel own-sister to a Group 1 performer and a half-sister to Lope De Vega
Lot 126: Cloth Of Stars half-sister to dual Group 3 winner and Group 1 third Makaloun
Lot 130: Showcasing colt out of a listed-winning Dansili mare, from the family of Grand Marshal
Lot 139: Cloth Of Stars half-brother to Melbourne Cup second Heartbreak City
Lot 154: New Bay filly out of an own-sister to a dual listed winner