GODOLPHIN’S love for the progeny of their super-sire Dubawi shows no sign of ever abating, and in the first few hours of trading yesterday at the Arqana Yearling Sale they were responsible for the first seven-figure lot of the sale.

This was Ecurie des Monceaux’s Dubawi colt out of a close relation to multiple Group 1 winner and classic hero Persian King, and that sire is now represented by his first yearlings this year. Anthony Stroud saw off all opposition for the colt whose grandam is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Ganay winner Planteur.

Four lots earlier and the same vendor and buyer combination was responsible for the €550,000 sale of a Dubawi colt, the second produce of the Camelot mare Pollara, and she won the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont at three. Her first foal was a recent winner. Pollara’s US stakes-winning half-sister Stormina bred Silasol, winner of the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at two, and the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary the following season. This is the family of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Solemia.

Henri Bozo’s Ecurie des Monceaux is heading for another leading vendor position, and they sold a third son of Dubawi, like the interim top lot out of a daughter of Invincible Spirit, to David Redvers for €400,000. The colt is out of a winning mare who hails from the celebrated family of Magic Wand and Chicquita.

A fourth Dubawi from the Monceaux consignment was a filly, the first foal out of a placed daughter of Lope De Vega. The dam, Right Hand, is a half-sister to one of the many Group 1 winners sired by Darley’s Dubawi, the Prix Vermeille heroine Left Hand. De Burgh Equine, on behalf of Glen Hill Farm, signed for her at €390,000.

Popular

Not surprisingly, the first Coolmore conceived crop by Wootton Bassett are popular with buyers, and in the first three hours of selling the Group 1 two-year-old winner has sired a number of lots that have realised €300,000 or more. Best at the time of writing is Haras d’Etreham’s half-sister to the Group 3 winner Lancaster House, and she is out of the Grade 1 Oasis Dream winner Quiet Oasis. Bregman Family Racing splashed out €550,000 for the filly.

Godolphin got in on the act when spending €320,000 on the fifth lot into the ring, Wootton Bassett’s son of the stakes-placed Dansili mare Palmyre. She is a granddaughter of the four-time Group 1 winner Peeping Fawn. That price was mated two hours later when Jean-Claude Rouget acquired Monceaux’s first foal of another daughter of Dansili, the three-year-old winner Scone. This is the immediate family of classic winner and Group 1 producer, Beauty Parlour.

Breaking the early stranglehold by Dubawi and Wootton Bassett was Monceaux’s Siyouni half-brother to the stakes-placed Imperial Yellow. Their Acclamation dam Soteria is a half-sister to Roodeye, the dam of Group 1 Sussex Stakes winner Mohaather and grandam of Group 1 Royal Ascot winner Accidental Agent. Al Shaqab Racing paid €500,000 for the yearling.

The sale continues on Saturday and Sunday, followed on Tuesday by the v.2 Sale. Full report in next week’s paper.