Haras de Saint-Arnoult

Seabhac (Scat Daddy) became the latest European freshman sire off the mark when Anton Doerner's homebred Everwin (Fr) (Seabhac--Quatuor {Ire}, by Kodiac {GB}) notched a first winner for the Haras de Saint Arnoult resident in Monday's Prix des Iris, a maiden race for 2-year-olds, at Lyon Parilly. 2nd-Lyon-Parilly, €18,000, Mdn, 6-27, 2yo, 6 3/4fT, 1:26.49, sf. EVERWIN (FR) (c, 2, Seabhac--Quatuor {Ire}, by Kodiac {GB}) settled off the pace in a midfield eighth for most of this debut. Making smooth headway along the far-side rail once into the straight, the...

France's racing and breeding community is in mourning following the passing of Larissa Kneip, breeder, trainer, sales consignor, and the owner of Haras de Saint Arnoult, who died suddenly at home on Tuesday. She was 51. Originally from Luxembourg, Kneip gave up a career in broadcast journalism to pursue a life with horses, settling near the town of Exmes, where she ran her picturesque Normandy farm in tirelessly successful fashion while wearing a number of different hats.  Active in all divisions of the sales market, from foals to breezers, she...

Mkfancy (Fr) (Makfi {GB}--Fancy Green {Fr}, by Muhtathir {GB}), winner of the G1 Criterium de Saint Cloud for Pia Brandt, will stand next season at Larissa Kneip's Haras de Saint Arnoult in Normandy. "Mkfancy was an impressive 2-year-old, not only physically, although he was strong and sound, but above all-- and this was his real strength--he had the mind of a warrior," said Kneip. Bred by Marbat LLC, Mkfancy raced in the colours of Abdullah Al Maddah in France and Dubai, winning twice as a 2-year-old.

Group 1 winner Way To Paris (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) has his first mares scanned in foal, Coolagown Stud announced on Monday. The winner of the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud covered Cliff Avenue (Ire) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}), herself out of G3 Prix de Lutece victress Street Shaana (Fr) (Darshaan {GB}); Greatest Dancer (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}), a half-sister to stakes-placed Perfect Casting (Diesis {GB}); and MSW Trip To Glory (Fr) (Where Or When {Ire})'s daughter Wadacre (GB) (Camelot {GB}), with the trio carrying to the charismatic grey. "Way To Paris...

The first mare covered by Elarqam (GB) at Haras de Saint-Arnoult has been tested in foal. Calima Mon Amour (Fr) (Shirocco {Ger}), already the dam of the Group 3-placed and listed winner Mascha (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), has been scanned in foal on a single cover after delivering a foal by another young Saint-Arnoult stallion, Seabhac. She also has a yearling colt by Almanzor (Fr). Elarqam, a Group 2-winning son of two Guineas winners in Frankel (GB) and Attraction (GB) (Efisio {GB}), joined Haras de Saint-Arnoult in Normandy at the...

MGSW Elarqam (GB) (Frankel {GB}-Attraction {GB}, by Efisio {GB}), who ran third in the G1 Juddmonte International in 2019 for Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell, has been retired and will stand at Haras de Saint Arnoult in partnership with Shadwell next year. The three-time group winner will command €6,000. The partnership to stand the dark bay son of Classic heroine Attraction was brokered by Richard Venn. "We are extremely excited to be standing Elarqam in France from next season, in partnership with Haras de Saint Arnoult," said Shadwell Stud Director Richard Lancaster....

A delayed and disrupted breeze-up season finally got underway in France on Wednesday with Osarus staging the first thoroughbred auction to be conducted entirely online in Europe. From an original catalogue of 79 juveniles, 21 had been withdrawn prior to the sale, but Osarus received 10 supplementary lots which had been rerouted from the cancelled BBAG sale in Germany. The turnover of €509,500 was almost exactly half of previous year's tally but that was derived from 15 fewer horses being sold—32 in total from 63 offered. The average price dropped...

French sales company Osarus stages the first sale of the delayed breeze-up season on Wednesday and, in a first for European sales, the auction will be conducted entirely online from 1.30pm local time. There have been 20 withdrawals from the original catalogue of 79 juveniles but a further ten 2-year-olds have been added to the sale as supplementary lots. These include a colt by Sea The Moon (lot 14b) out of the winning Cape Blanco (Ire) mare Casablanca (Ire) offered by Larissa Kneip's Haras de Saint Arnoult, which is also...

As the covering season gets underway, if ever there was a feel-good story to counteract some of the more commercial starkness of the modern-day breeding industry it is the tale of Tiberian (Fr). The horse conceived to give his sire Tiberius Caesar (Fr) some respite from the frustrations of his day job as the teaser at Haras du Logis went from being something of a peculiarity to a group-winning globetrotter who has now earned the chance to make his mark on the breed. The first foal and now one of...

A chestnut filly out of Brigh (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is the first foal for Haras de Saint-Arnoult sire Dschingis Secret (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), Jour de Galop reported on Monday. She was born at Larissa Kneip's Saint-Arnoult operation on Jan. 3. The German/Italian highweight and G1 Grosser Preis von Berlin hero stands for €5,000. As part of a breeding incentive bonus, €5,000 will be paid for the first three Flat and National Hunt winners. €10,000 will be awarded for the first Flat and jumps listed winners and €25,000 for the...