Share of Zarak Tops Arqana November Online Sale

Sold for €500,000 (US$559,335, €1=US$1.12) to Badgers Bloodstock, the share in Aga Khan Studs stallion Zarak (FR) (Lot 1) achieved the top price of the sale. By Dubawi (IRE) out of the outstanding Zarkava (IRE), Zarak is himself a group 1 winner and has already sired several top-level performers, including 2024 Poule d'Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousand Guineas, G1) winner Metropolitan (FR), as well as group 1 winners Haya Zark and Zagrey (FR). A breeding right to Goliath du Berlais (Lot 2) was sold for €77,500 to an undisclosed buyer. A winner of four group races, including the Prix Ferdinand Dufaure (G1), and crowned France's leading 4-year-old steeplechaser, he has established himself as a leading sire of 3-year-olds from his very first crop. His progeny includes group winners Sobriqette, Altura, Good Girl de Faust, and Delmegan Overall, 11 of the 19 lots sold with a gross of €757,500 (US$847,393), for an average of €68,864 (US$77,036), with the median at €20,000 (US$22,373).