Fun With Flags (Ire)

Nicolas de Watrigant of Mandore International Agency had the final say for Fun With Flags (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) at the Arqana Online Pop-Up Sale, the Listed winner bringing a final bid of €630,000. Fun With Flags won the Prix Rose de Mai, and was the G3 Prix Cleopatre runner-up by just over two lengths to Halfday (Fr) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), for Jerome Reynier, and was offered with an entry in the G1 Prix de Diane. She has won three of her four career starts. When asked for details, de...

With the three-quarter-length victory of Washington Heights (GB) in Newmarket's G3 Abernant S. in mid-April, the late Zoffany (Ire) celebrated his first group winner as a paternal grandsire. Already the first stakes winner in that role, Washington Heights is by the 2017 G3 Phoenix Sprint S. victor Washington DC (Ire), who was also runner-up in the G1 Keeneland Phoenix S., a race won by his sire five years earlier.  Now, with the advent of his final crop of 3-year-olds, Zoffany is poised to add to his legacy. Bred by the...