Darasa was the pick of the bunch at the Agence Francaise Deauville venue on Sunday, selling for €160 000 to Patricia Boutin's Suprina Agency.
There was no shortage of interest in the well made Barathea mare out of Darshaan's Group placed daughter Darashandeh, sold in foal to Domedriver.
Herself a winner, Darasa is also a half sister to the promising Polish Precedent colt Darsi who has shown plenty of promise as a two-year-old. She also has a winning three-year-old half brother by Night Shift and a yearling half sister by Sakhee on the ground so there is plenty to suggest that the family will continue to improve.
Underbidder on Darasa, Gilles Forien secured the second highest priced lot Haleema, for €130,000. Meanwhile Felipe Hinojosa took home the youthful Keraka, Sunday's third highest lot of the day, signed for by Carlos Laffon-Parias at €80,000. Lot 462, Sheshawa, heads to South America having been acquired by Oceanic Bloodstock for one of Chile's leading breeders, Pedro Hurtado.
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