Cover image courtesy of Cambridge Stud
A two per cent share of Cambridge Stud and Haras d’Etreham stallion Almanzor (Fr) has sold for €310,000 (AU$507,140) in an Arqana Online sale.
Almanzor is completing his third season at Cambridge Stud, with his first progeny set to go through the Australasian yearling sales in 2021.
The share in the son of Wootton Bassett (Fr) was catalogued as Lot 6 and was purchased by Elwick Stud. It allows for two nominations annually in France.
His oldest Northern Hemisphere foals are yearlings, and he sits second by average on the TDN European First-Crop Sires' Sales Statistics page, with 14 yearlings sold for an average of US$119,463 (AU$166,959).
Six stallion shares and breeding rights were available during the Arqana Online Sale.
A breeding right in leading first-season sire Mehmas (Ire) was knocked down to Haras du Mont-dit-Mont for €200,000 (AU$327,190). Mehmas (Lot 4) is already responsible for 42 winners and four stakes winners including G1 Middle Park S. hero Supremacy (Ire) and G2 Gimcrack S. victor Minzaal (Ire).
Mehmas (Ire) | Image courtesy of Tally-Ho Stud
Stephen Hillen snapped up a 1/50th share (Lot 2) in Le Havre (Ire) for €175,000 (AU$286,290). The sire of 40 black-type winners, the dark bay celebrated the win of Wonderful Tonight (Fr) in the G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares S. last month, one of five Group 1 winners for the 14-year-old.
Lot 5, a breeding right in Group 1 sire Showcasing (GB), the former Haunui Farm stallion, was sold to Broadhurst Agency for €130,000 (AU$212,980). His Mohaather (GB) saluted in the G1 Sussex S. earlier this year, giving the stallion three Group 1 winners among his 45 black-type winners.
A share in Northern Hemisphere stallion No Risk At All (Fr) (Lot 3) went to Racing D for €60,000 (AU$98,300). The sixth lot was a 1/50th share in successful sire Siyouni (Fr) (Lot 1) which was passed in for €850,000 (AU$1.392 million).
