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00:00On day two of the Arcana October yearling sale, 24 of the 101 lots on offer sold for
00:08100,000 euros or more.
00:13The top price of the day went to lot 240.
00:19Anthony Stroud, bidding remotely, had the last word for the Colt by Lope de Vega out
00:24of the black-type winning mare, Cherry Lady.
00:26Very happy, and also especially because he goes to Andre Fab for Godolphin, so it's always
00:31nice to see those yearlings going to good homes.
00:35And first of all, he was, for some, maybe lacking just a bit of size, but he was a quality
00:40son of Lope de Vega, and he sold well in this market, so I'm very thankful to Anthony for
00:46his support and happy to see him going to Andre.
00:49Ara d'Etreon ranked second on the seller's list for part one of the sale, with 21 lots
00:54at an average price of 90,380 euros for the first two days.
01:00Anthony Stroud also secured the second highest-priced yearling of the day, a filly out of a former
01:05Vertimer black-type mare.
01:07Lot 299 by Zahac sold for 180,000 euros.
01:13She had originally been bought in utero at Arcana in 2020.
01:18With Thierry Deleg, we perused the catalog, and we thought that it was a very lively family,
01:27and we managed to get her for what I would call a reasonable price for a breeder like
01:32myself, and she was already in fold to Zahac.
01:39Zahac was not that popular at the time, but I happened to have a share in Zahac, and so
01:48I was happy with the stallion, and she gave us a magnificent filly.
01:54An auction is an auction, there's competition, and that played to the advantage of this filly.
02:00Today it's the achievement of 18 months of hard work by a whole team.
02:05I understand that she's going into a great training house.
02:10I was fortunate enough two years ago already to sell a produce that went to another big
02:16UK trainer.
02:17My iPhone is already connected to other races, and I will continue following her.
02:23And who knows?
02:24I hope she will come back to France to race some good races for her owners.
02:29The top seller for day 2 was La Motrec Consignment, with 6 lots bringing a total of 537,000 euros.
02:37Among them, a wooden basset filly out of a Choisir Mare attracted Jean-Claude Rouget,
02:42who acquired her for 170,000 euros.
02:46It went really well, we are very happy with the sales.
02:50I think when you bring the right horses, the sales can be strong.
02:54So overall we are pretty happy.
02:56The sale resumes on Wednesday at 2pm French time.