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VER THE PAST TWO YEARS we have became accustomed to bloodstock sale dates and formats changing, it became part of bloodstock life as sales

companies adjusted programmes in order to maintain trade during the two years of lockdown complications. Once again this year the Arqana yearling sales has a rather different format – a half day’s sale on the Saturday of the August

ARQANA RACE SERIES Deauville Racecourse: Thursday August 10, 2023 Race Horse 1400m unraced colts 1400m unraced fillies 1200m conditions 2000m conditions, 3yo * Three-Year-Olds (*from 2024)

Prize-money €170,000 €170,000 €290,000 €290,000*

ParisLongchamp: Saturday, September 30, 2023 Race 1600m

Horse conditions

Prize-money €290,000

Eligibility for the Arqana Series

August Yearling Sale 2022, September Yearling Sale 2022, October Yearling Sale 2022, November Yearling Sale 2022, Breeze Up Sale 2023

Changing formats Arqana has changed its set-up for its August Sale, has created a new two-day September Sale, and has launched a new race series Executive director Freddy Powell explains the thinking and the initiatives 44

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Sale, no V2 version to conclude business and a two-day September Sale. However the altered format, for once, has nothing to do with pandemics, but rather French bank holidays. “Monday, August 15 is a bank holiday in


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