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The catalogue for the Goffs February Sale, set for February 11-12, is now online. A total of 416 Flat and National Hunt horses of all ages will go through the Kildare Paddocks ring on that Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday's session will feature 266 weanlings, while the Thursday session will include juveniles, stores, horses-in-training, and breeding stock. The inaugural Goffs February Point-to-Point Sale will take place immediately after the conclusion of the Goffs February Sale. Its catalogue will be available in the coming days. Some of the Flat weanling sires represented...

A 1/50th share (lot 125) in multiple French champion sire Siyouni sold for 175,000gns to TCT Bloodstock on Thursday to top the Tattersalls Online December Sale. The Aga Khan Studs' stallion has sired 13 stakes winners in the Northern Hemisphere this term anchored by Aga Khan homebred Zarigana, the winner of the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, multiple graded winner Bellezza, third in the GI New York Stakes and G2 Neom Turf Cup hero Shin Emperor. The sire of 46 group winners in his career, he will stand for €150,000...

The Scorpion mare Ledecka (lot 19) topped the ThoroughBid November sale at £30,000 on Wednesday. Placed in two starts in National Hunt Flat races, the five-year-old mare is from the family of G3 Queen's Vase winner Silver Wedge (Silver Hawk). She was offered by Beatbush Farm and picked up by Red Racing.    Pour Les Fillies (Pour Moi) (lot 17) brought £9,500 from Mickey Bowen Racing. A winner of a NH Flat race, a point-to-point and a hurdle race, the Gordon Elliott-consigned seven-year-old is from the same family as Listed...

The stallion Chanducoq (lot 709) topped the Arqana Autumn NH Breeding Stock Sale in Deauville on Thursday when selling for €450,000 to Valentin Adam of Adam Bloodstock on behalf of Haras de Cercy's Jacques Cypres. Offered by Haras de la Barbottiere, the 12-year-old is the sire of Grade 3-winning hurdler Rooster Crowning among several other winners. He is also a half-brother to fellow Cercy stallion Cokoriko. "We were keen to get some Voix du Nord blood, as he gave us so much," said Cypres of the son of Voix Du...

Richard Knight and Salhia Stud paid 100,000gns to secure a breeding right in group stallion Palace Pier (lot 185) during the Tattersalls Online November Sale on Wednesday. Already the sire of eight black-type horses, his best progeny so far are G2 Lowther Stakes heroine Royal Fixation and G3 Solario Stakes winner A Bit Of Spirit. Knight commented following the sale, "We are delighted to secure the breeding right to Palace Pier. He is a stallion that appears to be on the up and we very much had him in mind...

The catalogue for the fifth edition of the BBAG Christmas Online Sale is now available. Set to begin on Friday, November 21 at noon, the sale will end on Sunday, November 23 at 2 p.m. local time. The mixed sale features 59 horses divided between 27 three-year-olds and older horses, eight juveniles, 16 broodmares, seven yearlings and one foal. The broodmares are in foal to stallion like Churchill, Fantastic Moon, Neatico, Northern Ruler, Sea The Moon and Alter Adler. Supplements may be added through Wednesday, November 19.

G2 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Birthe leads four other wildcards for Arqana's Vente d'Elevage catalogue, which takes place from December 6-9. The daughter of Study Of Man, also second in the G2 Prix de la Nonette, will sell as lot 248E. All five will sell during the first session on Saturday, December 6. Samibaya (Wootton Bassett) (lot 248B) is a half-sister to dual group winner and Classic hopeful Samangan (Blue Point), as well as listed winner Simeen (Lope De Vega). The trio's dam is a half-sister to G1 Prix de Diane,...

Aimeric (Frankel) (lot 65), who has placed multiple times at listed level, is one of 186 lots catalogued in the Tattersalls Online November Sale on November 18-19. Among the various lots are 102 horses in and out of training, 63 yearlings, 16 broodmares, two breeding rights, one stallion share, one foal and one store. Out of Aris (Danroad), the six-year-old gelding is a half-brother to G1 Prix de la Foret hero and sire Aclaim, as well as the GIII Soaring Softly Stakes heroine Queen Picasso (Kingman). This sale also features...

A total of 54 yearlings have been catalogued for the Tattersalls Online Yearling Session on November 18-19. The yearlings are by such sires as Acclamation, Churchill, Showcasing, Starspangledbanner, Too Darn Hot, Zoustar, Cotai Glory, Cracksman, Dandy Man, Kameko, Phoenix Of Spain, Saxon Warrior, Ten Sovereigns and Ulysses. There are 11 half-brothers and sisters to group and listed performers and seven yearlings out of group and listed performing mares. Some of the choicest lots include a Zoustar filly out of Group 3 winner Farmah (lot 10) who is also a half-sister...

The group-placed Dioptase leads a trio of wildcards for the upcoming Arqana Autumn Sale from November 17-20 in Deauville. Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, the son of New Bay (lot 376) was runner-up in the G3 Prix Greffulhe and was also third in the Listed Prix Pelleas. Rated 100, the three-year-old is from the family of group winner and Classic-placed Survie (Churchill), as well as Group 1 winners and sires Contributer and King Of Steel. Another Flat entry is Listed Grand Prix du Nord fourth Love Me Tender (lot 356). Consigned...

A trio of fillies-in-training and a pair of broodmares have been added to the Arqana Vente d'Elevage catalogue.    Kiamba (lot 190), a winner of the Listed Prix de Thiberville, will be offered by Mario Baratti. Also placed in the G3 Prix Penelope this year, she was most recently second in the G3 Prix Belle de Nuit last weekend. Rated 102, the daughter of Australia hails from the family of Group 1 winner Milan. Rated 92 is the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained Dune (lot 150). By Wootton Bassett, she is a sister...

The catalogue for the Goffs October HIT and Yearling Sale at Doncaster has grown by 14 lots with the late addition of Mr McLoughland (Forever Now) (lot 89) and 13 other lots. A winner of two of his three hurdle starts for Jack Jones, Mr McLoughland is joined by lot 90, Jaycee Reidy (Walk In The Park), who won his second and most recent point-to-point; lot 92, Western Zephyr (Westerner), a four-time winner over hurdles and fences and second in a Grade 2 chase at Cheltenham last season; and King...