Promising stayer Extend's impressive win for Lloyd Williams at Flemington last Saturday is an added incentive for discerning Australian breeders to examine the breeding prospects in the preview book for the Arqana sale at Deauville in France next month.
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The sale from December 8-11 includes 13 from the historic Aga Khan Studs, one of the world's most distinguished and consistent sources of prestige winners.
The Aga Khan's contribution includes the 6YO mare Dalataya, a half-sister by Sadler's Wells to his great gallopers Daylami (seven G1 wins) and Dalakhani (four Group 1 wins).
Dalataya's grandam was a sister to Damana (Crystal Palace - Denia, by Crepello), the grandam of Extend, a son of Danehill's Golden Slipper winner Catbird and Calamera, a mare owned by Twin Palms Stud.
Another representative of this family in the Hunter Valley is Sutton Rarju, a 2002 foaled daughter of Last Tycoon's G1 winner and sire of classic winners Marju.
Owned by Russ Lazarus, she has as her third dam a half-sister to the third dam of Extend and Dalataya.
The Aga Khan mares on offer also include Dalasyla, a 3YO half-sister by Marju to G1 winner Daliapour (Sadler's Wells) and G3 winner Dalampour (Shernazar).
They are from the French St Leger placed Dalara, a half-sister to French Derby winner Darshaan (Shirley Heights).
Daylami also played a big part in the production of a 2YO filly among six mares in the French sale on behalf of Darley.
A grey filly named Snow Spell, she is a half-sister by Daylami to Laverock, a dual Group 1 European winner got in France by Australian Horse of the Year Octagonal.
They are from Spy Song, a daughter of Sadler's Wells and Criquette, a stakes winning half-sister to Group 1 winner and good sire Mark Of Distinction.
Another young mare from Darley is Royal Tiara, a half-sister by one of the most respected Mr. Prospector sires Machiavellian to Listed winner and G2 placed second Balkan Knight.
The dam Crown Of Light was third in the English Oaks.
The Arqana sale features mares with in depth black type breeding by such fashionable sires as Rahy, Rock Of Gibraltar, Giant's Causeway, Alzao, Grand Lodge, Gulch, Green Desert, Singspiel, Kingmambo, Distorted Humor, Danehill Dancer, Anabaa, Seeking the Gold and Monsun.
