Grand Lodge Colt Leads Way at Deauville

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A Grand Lodge colt sold for 700,000 euros ($849,730) to top the first two sessions of L'Agence Francaise's Deauville August yearling sale Sunday and Monday in France. British agent Richard O'Gorman, who often buys horses for Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager John Ferguson, signed the sale ticket Monday for the colt, who is out of the stakes-winning mare Native Twine and is a half-brother to German group III winner Tahreeb.

Haras de Boi Carrouges' Florent Coutuier was the colt's breeder and seller.

In all, 190 of the 237 horses offered were sold during the auction's first two days. They grossed 21,910,000 euros ($26,596,549) and averaged 115,316 euros ($139,982).

Two more sessions are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

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