An unmissable event in the European sales calendar, the ARQANA Breeze Up Sale will take place on May 11, 12 and 13 at Deauville. Synonymous with excellent individuals in the ring and on the racetrack, Breeze Up graduates continue to show their talent in prestigious races including LEZOO and SAKHEER, victorious in the Cheveley Park Stakes (Gr.1) and Mill Reef Stakes (Gr.2) respectively. They are eagerly awaited in this year’s European Classics, just like INDESTRUCTIBLE, ARDITO, NOVE SU NOVE, EVERYTHING COUNTS, ANGERS, PENTERA NERA, UP AND UNDER and OBELIX. Further graduates of the Deauville sale such as AL TARIQ, BIG CALL, ELDAR ALDAROV, MALAVATH, ROMAGNIA MIA and ROCKEMPEROR all added a Group win to their race records last season. 

This year, the sale will be held over three days with the breezes taking place on the grass at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse on Thursday 11 May at midday, followed by a day of inspections on Friday 12 May. The sale will start on Saturday 13 May from 11am. 

A selection of blue-blooded two-year-olds

 

Available today, the 2023 Breeze Up catalogue offers 185 pre-trained two-year-olds. Almost half of the colts and fillies selected are out of black-type mares and/or have already produced a black-type winner. Among them, 38 are out of Group winning mares or that have already produced a Group winner. Buyers will notably have the opportunity to acquire sons and daughters of Group 1 winners RIBBONS (lot 30), CURVY (lot 106), MISS FRANCE (lot 175) or RUMPLESTILTSKIN (lot 34).

 

Full or half siblings to Group 1 winners LIGHTHOUSE BAY (lot 5), LATROBE (lot 19), TAPESTRY (lot 34), ALENQUER (lot 68), PALACE PIER (lot 87), COMBATANT (lot 92), RHEA MOON (lot 94), DYLAN MOUTH (lot 103) and TIGER TANAKA (lot 176) are also catalogued. 

 

A catalogue with remarkable sire power 

 
Nearly 80 stallions are represented, including leading sires Camelot, Churchill, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Frankel, Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Lope De Vega, Mehmas, New Bay, Night of Thunder, No Nay Never, Oasis Dream, Sea The Moon, Sea The Stars, Showcasing, Siyouni, Starspangledbanner, Wootton Bassett, Zarak and Zoffany, as well as the American sires American Pharoah, Blame, Candy Ride, Cairo Prince, Curlin, Ghostzapper, Into Mischief, Justify, Medaglia d’Oro, Mendelssohn, More Than Ready, Speightstown, Summer Front, Temple City, Uncle Mo, Union Rags and War Front.