Albahri brings €140,000 at Arqana

Albahri brings €140,000 at Arqana

ALBAHRI (Bahri), winner of the November 3 Grand Prix du Nord, topped

proceedings during Monday's Arqana Autumn Sale when selling for €140,000.

Raced in the colors of His Highness the Aga Khan, the three-year-old

gelding, who is a close relative of Sakhee, was consigned as Hip No. 22 and was

knocked down to Michel Zerolo's Oceanic Bloodstock.

Of the other Flat horses in

training to command interest was the Pascal Bary-trained three-year-old SAN

CARLOS (Dr Fong), consigned as Hip 71. Still seeking his first victory

after making five starts, San Carlos was purchased by Abeth Mussat for €90,000.

San Carlos, runner-up to the subsequent Group 2 scorer Russian Cross (Cape Cross

[Ire]) in a

conditions event at Chantilly in July, is from the family of Alexandrova (Ire)

(Sadler's Wells)

and Magical Romance (Barathea [Ire]).

Later, Jiri Travnicek went to €80,000 to secure Hip

102, the sophomore SAFETY WIRE (Anabaa) from trainer Elie Lellouche's

consignment. The half-brother to last year's Gran Premio di Milano (Ity-G1) winner

Sudan (Ire) (Peintre Celebre) was successful in a maiden at Vichy in July and

conditions race at Deauville the following month.

Christos Theodorakis paid

€72,000 for the John Hammond-trained four-year-old colt BUCINTORO (Galileo

[Ire]), consigned as Hip 27. Runner-up in the Prix Turenne at Saint-Cloud

last September, his dam is a half to Ali-Royal (Royal Academy), Taipan (Last

Tycoon [Ire]), Sleepytime

(Ire) (Royal Academy) and Oonagh Maccool (Ire) (Giant's Causeway).

At the end of selling, the average of €18,250

was down by a fraction on 2007 and the median dropped by only 9 percent with the

clearance rate at a healthy 70 percent. Full results are available at www.arqana.com.