Osarus Breeze Up Sale

Vendors found the going tough at the lower end of the market at the Osarus Breeze-Up Sale on Wednesday where, from just 32 horses offered, 22 were sold at a clearance rate of 68%. The top lot, a €37,000 City Light (Fr) filly that sold to trainer Nicolas Perret, was consigned by 25-year-old handler Quentin Moulin, who described himself as happy with the result in what was a "demanding market". "The filly is a beautiful horse-a model designed for speed," Moulin said. "She came to work very quickly and was...

The wraps come off the European breeze-up season on Wednesday at Osarus's La Teste de Buch fixture.  A catalogue of just 37 lots - down by more than 50% on last year's entries - has been reduced further by four withdrawals, and the sale is heavily supported by a draft of 14 from John Bourke's Hyde Park Stud, a long-term backer of Osarus.  This more gentle introduction to the 2025 round of two-year-old sales is in a sense the calm before the storm. By Sunday, around 160 Craven horses will...

A trio of juveniles from the Mayfield Stables' consignment filled the top three positions during Wednesday's Osarus Breeze-Up Sale at La Teste Racecourse, with a filly by Mehmas (Ire) (lot 41), taking top honours at €80,000 from Mandore International Agency. The March foal is out of Heavenly Bliss (GB) (Intello {Ger}), herself a daughter of G3 Dahlia S. winner and triple Group 1 placegetter Heaven Sent (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), a full-sister to U.S. turf star and dual Grade I winner Megahertz (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Mandore was also the name on...

The breezes for the Osarus Breeze-Up Sale were held over the training track at La Teste-de-Buch on Wednesday. Just over 50 lots remain in the sale set for Thursday in the south-west of France. Some of the lots of note include a colt by Dark Angel (Ire) (lot 9) consigned by Ard Erin Stud from the family of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Rosanara (Fr) (Sinndar {Ire}) and a colt by Acclamation (GB) (lot 65) who is kin to multiple group winner Signora Cabello (Ire) (Camacho {GB}); and M.C. Thoroughbreds...

The catalogue for the Osarus Breeze-up Sale is now available online and contains 68 juveniles set to sell on Apr. 27. Among those consigned for the auction will be a filly from the debut crop of Magna Grecia (Ire), who was represented by his first winner at Saint-Cloud last week. Lot 30, offered by Highfield Bloodstock, is out of Bagira (Giant's Causeway), a winning full-sister to the GI Suburban H. winner Frost Giant.  Another with an American stakes winner close up on the page is Lot 8, a Sir Percy...

A small but select approach to the Osarus Breeze-Up Sale paid dividends for Philip Prevost-Baratte after his Zelzal (Fr) filly (lot 71) was knocked down for a sale-topping €60,000. The French-based consignor was also responsible for the second-highest lot to go under the hammer on Tuesday, a Starspangledbanner (Aus) colt (lot 8), who fetched €58,000. However, despite securing a healthy profit and heading the sale with two of his three offerings, Prevost-Baratte revealed that he was disappointed that the Zelzal filly didn't command a juicer price tag. He explained, "It...

Buoyed by seeing his former breeze-up graduate Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}) storm to 1000 Guineas glory on Sunday, John Bourke will be hoping his profitable spell continues at the Osarus Breeze-Up Sale. The breeder and consignor offers 10 juveniles under the banner of his Westmeath-based Hyde Park Stud during the sale at La Teste de Buch. Featuring among the group are the only representations of U S Navy Flag (lot 39) and Tasleet (GB) (35) while their fellow first-season sires Kessaar (Ire) (62), Recoletos (Fr) (11) and Cloth Of Stars...

Having become the first European auction to be staged entirely online in 2020, the Osarus Breeze-up Sale returned to its more usual format this year, selling live at La Teste de Buch racecourse and setting a new record top price of €200,000 in the process. The sale-topper had not originally been intended for this sale but, following the relocation of the Arqana Breeze-up Sale from Deauville to Doncaster, French-based consignor Philippe Prevost Baratte opted to keep his Wootton Bassett (GB) colt at home, sending him to Osarus as lot 45A,...

Yann Creff's colt by Le Havre (Ire) (lot 29) has been elevated to the top from Osarus's online breeze-up sale after being sold in a private transaction to Nicolas Bertran de Balanda for €60,000. The colt is the second foal out of the dual French listed-placed Galaxe (Fr) (High Chaparral {Ire}). The online sale, held on Tuesday, saw 32 juveniles sold from 63 offered on the day, but in the following two days five more horses have been sold. The clearance rate now stands at 57.8%.

A delayed and disrupted breeze-up season finally got underway in France on Wednesday with Osarus staging the first thoroughbred auction to be conducted entirely online in Europe. From an original catalogue of 79 juveniles, 21 had been withdrawn prior to the sale, but Osarus received 10 supplementary lots which had been rerouted from the cancelled BBAG sale in Germany. The turnover of €509,500 was almost exactly half of previous year's tally but that was derived from 15 fewer horses being sold—32 in total from 63 offered. The average price dropped...

French sales company Osarus stages the first sale of the delayed breeze-up season on Wednesday and, in a first for European sales, the auction will be conducted entirely online from 1.30pm local time. There have been 20 withdrawals from the original catalogue of 79 juveniles but a further ten 2-year-olds have been added to the sale as supplementary lots. These include a colt by Sea The Moon (lot 14b) out of the winning Cape Blanco (Ire) mare Casablanca (Ire) offered by Larissa Kneip's Haras de Saint Arnoult, which is also...

The 2-year-old sale season has been subject to great upheaval but, as things stand, Osarus will be the first breeze-up sale to be held in Europe in 2020 on May 27. It will also be the first Thoroughbred sale in Europe to be conducted online. Unlike fellow French sale house Arqana, the Osarus breeze-up catalogue is made up almost entirely of horses being prepared within France. The only outside sales consignor listed is John Burke's Irish-based Hyde Park Stud. There have been 11 withdrawals from the 79 lots catalogued for...