This year's BBAG Yearling Sale will take place on one day only, set on Friday, September 2nd prior to the Baden-Baden Summer Meeting's Highlight, the Group I Grosser Preis von Baden. In a year of continued success of German breeding abroad, the BBAG holds it own in this category as well with the Group winning Acatenango mare Dalicia as the dam of the Kentucky Derby hero Animal Kingdom having been sold to Team Valor here at Baden-Baden. This year's top sales graduates are currently headed by the Oaks d'Italia winning and Derby Italiano third placed Lomitas filly Danedream and the German 1.000 Guineas heroine Lips Poison.
The entire offer of 260 catalogued lots includes all leading domestic vendors and some from abroad. Highly prolific young sires as well as proven and champion sires from at home and abroad are on the list as well as top class performing and producing mares represented with their stock. The leading offer could be Gestut Etzean's lot number 178, a Sholokhov colt out of the Monsun mare Night Woman and thus an own brother to the Group I and Classic scoring champion Night Magic. Gestut Karlhof's lot 62 as a filly from the first crop of the Epsom Derby hero New Approach and a half-brother to the multiple Group winning leading miler Alianthus. Gestut Wittekindshof's consignment includes an Oratorio colt (lot 46) as a half-brother to the German Oaks heroine Rosenreihe as well as a High Chaparral colt (Lot 49) out of the multiple Group and Stakes producing Alkalde mare Salde whose latest top performer is the German Derby third Saltas. Gestut Rottgen's offer will include a Manduro colt (lot 210) out of an own sister to the Nassau Stakes victrix Zaynaat while Gestut Fahrhof has Sir Percy colt (lot 140) out of a Stakes producing half-sister to the dam of this year's German Derby hero Waldpark. Gestut Ebbesloh is offering a Montjeu filly (lot 70) bred from the Group II Prix de Pomone winning Polish Precedent mare Avanti Polonia.
The Yearling Sale catalogue is now available online on www.bbag-sales.de