Mandore International

It was just five years ago when Guillaume Vitse left his longtime job at Haras de Colleville where he had helped build the farm from a start-up to a well-established French stallion station to forge his own path. "At one stage, you just feel like it's time to go out on your own and buy your own place," says Vitse, sitting by one of his pastures at his Normandie Breeding in Hotot-en-Auge, France, where a dozen yearlings are grazing behind him. "My wife and I were pretty motivated to do...

DEAUVILLE, France--A member of the first crop of Newsells Park Stud's Without Parole (GB) led the way as trade resumed in the ring at Arqana, with Nicolas de Watrigant going to €160,000 for the filly from Haras de la Louviere (lot 248) out of Pigota (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Her dam may have been unraced but she is a daughter of the G1 Preis der Diana winner Penelopa (Ger) (Giant's Causeway) and a half-sister to Listed-placed dual winner Pennymoor (GB), who is by Without Parole's sire Frankel (GB). The agent...