Bloodstock Desk: Quiet start to French season at Deauville.Byline: Bessie Gregory, Rachel Pagones & Amy Bennett AGENCE FRANCAISE'S February mixed sale provided a quiet start to the French sales season in Deauville yesterday, although the top price of e 46,000 was an increase on last year, writes Amy Bennett. Leading agent Mags O'Toole supplied the highlight of the one-day sale to secure Kicking Bird, a nineyear-old winning daughter of Darshaan out of Group 3 winner Antartica. Consigned by Haras du Cadran, the mare mare Any flat, low, dark plain on the Moon. Maria are huge impact basins containing lava flows marked by ridges, depressions (graben), and faults; though mare means “sea” in Latin, they lack water. has foaled one winner and is in foal being with young; pregnant; - said of a mare or she ass. See also: Foal to Polish Precedent. Last year's highest price was e 42,000. Haras du Cadran was also responsible for the sale's second highest lot, a nine-year-old Roi de Rome mare in foal to Verglas, who was sold for e 27,000. Altogether, only ten of the 102 catalogued lots broke the e 10,000 barrier. The highest-priced yearling of the sale was a e 4,500 filly filly young female horse up to first breeding or 4 years, then a maiden mare. Called filly foal up to weaning, then weanling filly to 1 year, then yearling filly to 2 years. . |
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