Beaumec de Houelle (Fr)

Four additional wildcards, led by a share (1/60th) in G1 Prix Jean Prat hero Puchkine (Fr) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) (lot 15), have been added to the Arqana November Online Sale. The sale will be held from 5-7 p.m. local time, excluding extra time, on Tuesday, Nov. 26. The share grants the purchaser two coverings a year in 2025, 2026, and 2027, and one covering per year beginning in 2028. A 1/50th share in Wooded (Ire) (lot 17) will also be offered, with the son of Wootton Bassett (GB) responsible for nine...

Star jumps sire No Risk At All (Fr) will cover a limited book at Haras de Montaigu in 2024, the stud announced on Thursday. His €20,000 live foal fee, an increase of €2,000 from 2023, leads the five-strong roster. Standing alongside the perennially successful sire are Beaumec De Houelle (Fr) and Flintshire (GB), each at €6,000. The latter is available to mares under both codes. Group Flat sire Dabirsim (Fr), whose Horizon Dore (Fr) ran third in the G1 Champion S., and  Dschingis Secret (13) will both command €4,000. The...

Trainer Paul Nicholls and bloodstock agent Tom Malone flexed their muscles at the newly-branded Goffs Arkle Sale on Tuesday by signing for three lots to the tune of €410,000, including the €160,000 day one topper, a Beaumec De Houelle (Fr) gelding already named Zamek (Fr) consigned by Mark Dwyer's Oaks Farm Stables. That was the highest average posted by any buyer on day one, however, it was the point-to-point outfit Monbeg Stables who posted the highest aggregate spend by signing for 15 lots to the tune of €784,000. Of the...

The four-strong 2021 roster of stallions at Haras de Montaigu is led by jumps stallion No Risk At All (Fr) (My Risk {Fr}), who will command a fee of €10,000, the French stud announced on Monday. The quartet is completed by fellow NH sire Beaumec de Houelle (Fr) (Martaline {GB}) at €6,000, MGSW & G1SP Jimmy Two Times (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) at €4,000-both with first weanlings this year--and is rounded out by GSW Night Wish (Ger) (Sholokhov {Ire}), who has his first 2-year-olds in 2020, at €3,000.