Haras de Montaigu completed its full set of topping both days of the Osarus September Yearling Sale in La Teste de Buch when selling a Toronado (Ire) filly for €40,000 to John Hammond.
Already named Acqua Rosa (Fr) and offered as lot 154, the April-born filly is out of the four-time winner Rose Tea (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}), a half-sister to the G2 Prix Greffulhe runner-up Handsome Devil (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}).
The clearance rate picked up a little throughout the second session, settling overall for the two days at 62%. The 97 yearlings sold from 156 to go through the ring brought an aggregate of €919,000, which was markedly down on last year but from a smaller catalogue this time around and 50 fewer horses sold. The median of €8,000 and average of €10,090, were both slightly reduced from the 2023 figures.
Irish breeze-up pinhookers Con Marnane of Bansha House and John Bourke of Hyde Park Stud, the breeder of Haatem (Ire), each got involved on the final day. Marnane bought a Galiway (GB) colt for €22,000 and Bourke, who bought Listed winner and Group 3-placed Chic Colombine (Fr) (Seahenge) at this sale two years ago for €10,000, picked up a filly by Seabhac for €21,000.
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