Huge Day In Deauville   • G1 Prix de l’Opera winner Rougir topped the sale, bought for €3-million by Peter Brant and the Coolmore partners.   • Five mares brought seven figures, with four in excess of €2-million.   • With its first sales consignment, Nurlan Bizakov’s Sumbe sold three of the top five lots; in addition to Rougir, Speak Of The Devil brought €1.95-million from Peter Brant.   • Wildfeder, a three-quarter sister to last week’s 2.2-million gns Tattersalls December Mares Sale top lot Waldlerche, herself fetched €2.05-million, with Gestut Ammerland buying out the partnership with Newsells Park Stud.   • The aggregate of €32,217,000 was up 70% from last year’s corresponding session and almost €7-million clear of 2020′s cumulative aggregate.   • The average was up 71% to €209,201, the median was up 14.7% to €86,000 and the clearance rate dipped slightly to 73%. Figures were also well up on the corresponding session of 2019.   Photo: Owner John D’Amato watches Grand Glory sell. | Sue Finley photo Click here to read all the coverage in the TDN.

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Munnings’ Eda Shines in Starlet S.

Eda ran to the money, becoming the latest Grade I winner for her red-hot sire Munnings. The even-money favorite shot straight to the front, but was headed by a longshot rival as the first quarter… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

Constitution Colt Closes Pick 3, Caps Exacta for Pletcher in Cigar Mile

Trainer Todd Pletcher completed a graded Pick 3, and an exacta, to close out the card at Aqueduct Saturday as AMERICANREVOLUTION (c, 3, Constitution–Polly Freeze, by Super Saver) reeled in his stablemate… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

Curlin’s Nest Completes Double for Hot Connections in Demoiselle

NEST (f, 2, Curlin–Marion Ravenwood, by A.P. Indy) completed a Grade II double for trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. as she out-kicked two-for-two New York-bred Venti Valentine (Firing Line) in Saturday afternoon’s… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

Navarro Wants Variance to Cut Five-Year Max Sentence By 30%

The barred trainer Jorge Navarro, who faces a five-year maximum prison term after pleading guilty in August to one count in a years-long Thoroughbred drugging conspiracy in exchange for having a similar second count against… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

Uncle Mo’s Mo Donegal Gets the Bob in Remsen

MO DONEGAL (c, 2, Uncle Mo–Callingmissbrown, by Pulpit) rallied and out-gamed slightly more fancied Zandon (Upstart) to notch a narrow decision in Aqueduct’s GII Remsen S. Saturday after his connections sweated out a stewards’ inquiry…. [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

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