Two of the biggest names in European racing this year, Daryz and Bow Echo, have both been announced for stud duty in 2027. Daryz becomes a stable companion of his own sire, while the stud farm for Bow Echo has yet to be settled.
The Dubawi son Night Of Thunder wins his first European champion sire title. The decisive moment came when Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) won the Champion Stakes (Gr.1) and collected £737,230 for the victory.
From Tuesday Deauville is once again the meeting point for the European yearling trade, where Arqana this year condenses its big October sale into four days. The sales company’s Scandinavian representative Morten Buskop has been going through the horses since Sunday.
Niels Petersen and his agent Edgar Byrne struck twice at the just-concluded Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 in Newmarket. The pair got the hammer down on a filly by Chaldean and a colt by St Mark’s Basilica, both on behalf of the Danish Elkær Stutteri.
Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin set a new European record for a yearling colt on the opening day in Newmarket, where a son of Night Of Thunder was bought for 4,600,000 guineas.
A patient Francisco Castro had to wait until the closing stages of the four-day Goffs Orby Sale before he finally got the hammer down on two yearling colts
Courage Under Fire left his mark on the whole of Galoppauktionen at Bro Park on Friday. The Danish stallion accounted for eight of the 27 sales and for SEK 1,200,000 — 46 per cent of the entire turnover — and his son Lightning Strikes was the day’s top lot at SEK 310,000.
The just-completed Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale at Fairyhouse produced eight reported Scandinavian purchases. The biggest was down to Niels Petersen, who together with his agent Edgar Byrne saw the hammer fall at €210,000 for a chestnut colt by No Nay Never.
Stall Sigfridsson’s Epsom Gold, the first foal out of the champion mare Ascot Brass, was Friday’s most expensive lot at the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale, knocked down at DKK 350,000 to Beatrice Marsing. Overall the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale came in below last year’s level, but the top of the market found its buyers.
The Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale gets under way at York Stutteri at 13.00 on Friday. 86 yearlings will go under the hammer of auctioneer Andrew Nolan. Results and updates are posted live on YearlingSale.dk – and the link below takes you straight to the live coverage.
For Scandinavia’s breeders, Friday is the most important day of the year. This is where the work that started in the foaling box is finally turned into hard cash — and this is where buyers have to guess at something nobody can yet know.
The complete catalogue for the 2026 edition of the Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale has now been published, and it is available both at the Scandinavian racecourses and at Dansk Galop’s Secretariat in Charlottenlund.
GalopSport often publishes stallion statistics on the sires in Europe that show who breeds the best racehorses. But if you would rather dig into which stallions breed on to the next generation, you need to look at the best sires of sires.
Denmark’s Derby and Breeders’ Cup winner Slava Ukraini will embark on a new career as a stallion at Stald Nørager in North Jutland in 2027. There he will be stabled side by side with fellow Thoroughbred stallions Efesos and Giant Sandman at a stud that is home to more than 50 broodmares.
We are more than halfway through the big-race season, and that gives a far more reliable picture of the various statistics. As before, I have worked out the five best stallions in each of the three youngest crops.
Bente and Magne Jordanger’s Stall Perlen were behind one of the biggest deals of Saturday evening on the opening day of Arqana’s August Yearling Sale in Deauville. Buying through Peter and Ross Doyle, the couple landed lot 43, a Wootton Bassett colt, for €800,000.
Deauville is once again the centre of the European thoroughbred world this week. From Saturday evening and for three days Arqana sells 325 of the finest yearlings in France — and Arqana’s Scandinavian representative Morten Buskop is already on the ground in Normandy.
Dansk Galop has published the catalogue pages for the September 18 auction at York Stutteri. On the dedicated auction website YearlingSale.dk, Dansk
The Tattersalls July Sale at Newmarket always attracts Scandinavian buying interest, and among the deals it is especially worth noting lot 505,
The second edition in history of the Goffs Classic Breeze Up Sale, held on Saturday evening at Kildare Paddocks, produced three Scandinavian
107 yearlings from 29 Scandinavian studs and by 32 different stallions have been entered for this autumn’s Scandinavian Open Yearling Sale at
At last week’s newly introduced Breeze Up sale Aktem in Paris, Stall Irish Coffee secured a 2-year-old colt by the French Criterium
The year’s last foal has now arrived at Hammer Racing in north-western Jutland. “A lovely, big-framed Courage Under Fire half-brother to Speedman”,
Buyers from Sweden, Norway and Denmark alike were in a strong buying mood on Friday during the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale