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Sells to John & Thady Gosden for €320,000, one of three lots to make over €200,000.
A filly by New Bay (Dubawi) topped Monday's session of the Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale when bought by Newmarket-based father and son training partnership of John and Thady Gosden for €320,000.
Sold by Gestut Ammerland as Lot 335, the filly is the third foal out of Borgia's Best (Lope De Vega), a placed mare who is herself a daughter of dual Group One winner Borgia (Acatenango).
Shortly afterwards, a filly by Ashford Stud-based Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) was bought by Arthur Hoyeau for €270,000. Coolmore's Caravaggio sired his 14th winner on Monday and Hoyeau said that the filly will be trained in France.
"She's the filly we wanted. Caravaggio is a good stallion that gets precocious stock and her dam has also produced well," he said.
"I've bought her for a partnership, and she'll go into training with Christophe Ferland."
The filly was sold by Haras des Granges as Lot 354.
The only other lot to make over €200,000 was a son of Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) who was bought via Arqana Online by BBA Ireland's Michael Donohoe for €210,000.
Wootton Bassett, who was acquired by Coolmore last year, is standing his first season in Australia this year and this colt is out of the winning mare Fray (Champs Elysees) who is a sister to Exoteric (Champs Elysees), a dual Listed winner in Australia.
Overall during Monday's Part 2 sale, 167 lots sold for €9,667,000, down seven per cent from two years ago, while the average fell 13 per cent to €75,523.
