Siyouni, Sea The Stars and Zarak all well represented as first major yearling sale gets underway.
Siyouni
Siyouni, Sea The Stars and Zarak all well represented as first major yearling sale gets underway. The Arqana August Yearling Sale begins on 16th August, and will feature 22 yearlings by Siyouni, 16 by Zarak and eight by SEA THE STARS. All three stallions have once again been represented by Group 1 winners on the track in 2024.
Zarak
Leading French sire Siyouni has sired the winners of over 30 Group 1 races to date, including the likes of Paddington, St Mark’s Basilica, Sottsass and Laurens, who were all purchased as yearlings. At this sale in 2022 he was responsible for the top-priced lot, a colt now named Shin Emperor, who went on to become a Group winner and dual Group 1 placed in Japan and holds entries in this year’s Irish Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Sea The Stars
Half of his 2024 August draft of yearlings are out of Stakes winners and/or producers, including a colt out of Group winner and Group 1 placed Lady Frankel and a half-brother to Group 1 winner Aspetar. They also include full sisters to Group 2 performer True Testament and last year’s €2.2 million sales-topping colt, as well as relations to Chicquita, Feed The Flame, Giofra, Left Hand, Lillie Langtry, Lope De Vega, Minding, Passage Of Time, Shamardal, Silasol, Timepiece and Zelzal.