Arqana mixed sale set to begin

Arqana's selling year gets underway Tuesday with its February Mixed Sale,

which features the breeding stock of the Wattinne family. Among the 46-strong

list of the preeminent breeders' stock on offer are 26 mares and a share in the

stallions Diableneyev and Panis. They are offered at the end of the catalog as

Hip No. 243 and 244, respectively.

Despite the withdrawal of one of their most notable broodmares, Folle Envie

(Un Desperado), dam of the Group 1-placed Folie Dance (Petit Loup), the Haras de

Blingel-based operation put forward some choice mares including Hip 190, the

10-year-old Dzinigane (Exit to Nowhere), who was second in the 2002 Prix

Penelope (Fr-G3) and is in foal to Sinndar, and Hip 118, the nine-year-old

Advaline (Highest Honor [Fr]), who was stakes-placed and is carrying a foal by

Green Tune.

Graduates of this auction include Logica (Ire) (Priolo), later the dam of the

top-class globetrotter Doctor Dino (Fr) (Muhtathir [GB]), and Reem Dubai (Nashwan),

responsible for the 2007 Beverly D. S. (G1) heroine Royal Highness (Ger)

(Monsun) as well as German co-highweight juvenile filly Royal Dubai (Dashing

Blade). Last year's Criterium International (Fr-G1) runner-up Prince Siegfried

(Royal Applause [GB]) sold as a yearling for just €25,000.

The catalog and results can be viewed at arqana.com.