MV Magnier and White Birch Farm go to €580,000 for Monceaux’s Siyouni colt

ARQANA AUGUST

Michel Zerolo of Oceanic Bloodstock bidding on behalf of MV Magnier and White Birch Farm spends €550,000 on Lot 122, the Siyouni colt out of Sapa Inca (Galileo), the full-sister to Johannes Vermeer, winner of the Criterium International (G1), and Elizabeth Browing, winner of the Group 2 Kilboy Estate Stakes (G2).

The colt was sold by Monceaux, and Henri Bozo of the farm gave the latest news on Sapa Inca: “She has bred a beautiful colt again by the same stallion, it is magic mating – Siyouni and a Galileo mare. This is a lovely colt, I am very happy.

“Today has not been an easy day, we have sold nearly everything but so far it has been a bit of ‘first day syndrome’.”

Zerolo spent €3,000,000 on Rougir for the same partnership at the Arqana December Mares Sale, and she runs in tonight’s Beverley D Stakes (G1) for trainer Chad Brown.

Of course, the White Birch Farm-owned Ac winner Sottsass was bred by Monceaux, is by Siyouni and is out of the Galileo mare Starlet’s Sister.