In common with all European breeze-up sales this season, the Osarus sale, which takes place at La Teste de Buch racecourse today, has an increase in numbers catalogued. From 102 in the book and three supplementary entries, 15 had already been withdrawn at the time of writing but it's still a rise from the 62 offered last year, when just 36 sold for a total of €645,000 at an average price of €18,156.
Paul Basquin's Haras de Saubouas has been the leading vendor at this sale since 2015 and last year sold the top two lots, headed by a Wootton Bassett colt at €77,000. At this ninth edition of the Osarus breeze-up, which moved to La Teste from Pornichet three years ago, Saubouas again has one of the biggest drafts, with 11 juveniles set to be tested in public for the first time. They include the sole lot in the sale by Reliable Man (GB), who recently transferred from Germany to France and is represented by a colt (lot 43) from the family of Anna Nerium (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who last week added victory in the listed European Free H. to her juvenile success in the G3 Dick Poole Fillies' S.
The largest consignment, however, is that from Haras de Saint-Arnoult and it's not just numbers alone that will bring potential purchasers to Larissa Kneip's boxes. Two of her offerings received a significant update a little over a fortnight ago when Barkaa (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) won the G3 Prix Vanteaux at the opening meeting of ParisLongchamp.
Lot 57 is Barkaa's half-brother and one of three juveniles in the sale from the first crop of Haras du Quesnay's Anodin (Ire). Just four lots later (61), a Siyouni colt from a half-sister to Barkaa's dam Dentelle (Fr) (Apeldoorn {Fr}) will go through the ring. A three-time provincial winner in France, Dentelle is also the dam of treble listed scorer My Old Husband (Fr) (Gentlewave {Ire}), whose 11 wins have come in France, Italy, Switzerland and Slovakia.
Anodin's fellow French freshman sires Joshua Tree (Ire) and Sommerabend (Ger) are also among those stallions with offspring catalogued, but the sole representative of Olympic Glory (Ire) has been withdrawn.
The horses will breeze on the turf at La Teste from 8.30am and the sale is set to start at 1.30pm.
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