Autumn Mixed Sale begins Thursday

Baden-Baden's three-day Autumn Mixed Sale gets underway today at the center

of the Racing and Sales Festival. Among BBAG's 489-strong catalog are foals,

yearlings and two-year-olds, as well as horses in and out of training and

broodmares. The list of vendors includes Con Marnane's Bansha House Stables, now

a regular here and leading stud operations Gestut Auenquelle, Brummerhof and

Etzean as well as Elite and Graditz.

Sires represented include the established domestic stalwarts Big Shuffle,

Dashing Blade, Lomitas (GB), Platini and Tiger Hill, alongside the still

unproven Black Sam Bellamy, Next Desert, Ransom o'War, Royal Dragon, Samum and

Sholokhov.

While last year's edition failed to match the high of 2005, when a new record

was set with the sale of Dalicia (Ger) (Acatenango) for 400,000, the exploits of

German-bred runners around the globe continues to draw the focus to these

auctions. High-profile graduates include last year's New York Breeders' Cup H.

(G2) winner Noble Stella, while this season Prix Maurice de Nieuil (Fr-G2) and

International Bosphorus Cup hero Bussoni (Goofalik) as well as Europa Meile

(Ger-G2) and Hamburger Meile (Ger-G3) scorer Konig Turf (Big Shuffle) have

advertised this sale after being bought for a total of 29,000.

This catalog features a clutch of relatives to group winners, most notably

Brummerhof's Hip 404, a Tiger Hill yearling half-sister to Champagne S. (Eng-G2)

winner McCartney (In the Wings [GB]). Other lots to note include Wilhelm's

Jackson's Hip 38, a foal half-brother by Noroit to last year's German One

Thousand Guineas  (Ger-G1) heroine Lolita (Ger) (Lavirco); Eva Quick's Hip

256, a yearling colt by Law Society out of a listed-placed half-sister to this

year's Deutschlandpreis (Ger-G1) third and Rheinland-Pokal (Ger-G1) runner-up

First Stream (Lomitas [GB]).

Selling begins Thursday. Catalog and updates are available at

www.bbag-sales.de.