Five exciting lots to keep an eye on at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale this week

The breeze-up season is off and running and there is no shortage of quality in this year's Tattersalls Craven Sale catalogue. The two-day auction starts from 5.45pm on Tuesday and here we select five lots to keep an eye on.

Lot 11
G c Arrogate - Funny Moon (Malibu Moon)
Consigned by Star Bloodstock

The sole lot by the much-missed Arrogate, the consignor's Matt Eves recently described this colt as having "plenty of speed" despite being out of an American Oaks winner in Funny Moon.

Arrogate, the emphatic winner of the Travers Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic, Pegasus and Dubai World Cups, sadly died last year as a result of illness. His first crop of juveniles are eagerly awaited either side of the Atlantic.

This $100,000 Keeneland purchase, a half-brother to four winners, can also count the likes of Distant Music, New Orchid - the dam of the influential Sprint Cup heroine African Rose - and Kirkwall among his family, so it would be a surprise if he did not make an impact at Park Paddocks.

Lot 40
B c Caravaggio - Like A Star (Galileo)
Consigned by Mocklershill

Out of a sister to the high-class Derrinstown and Beresford Stakes winner Battle Of Marengo, and by a first-season sire who looks to have unearthed a genuine Royal Ascot prospect, this colt has plenty to recommend him.

Caravaggio was himself highly precocious, winning on his debut in April at two before following up in the Coventry and Phoenix Stakes. His first winner, Tenebrism, showed immense pace and promise to strike despite obvious greenness, and a similar turn of foot for this colt would only add to his appeal.

Being out of a Galileo mare, the Mocklershill-consigned colt is likely to be endowed with plenty of grit. Determined buyers could easily push him well above his 155,000gns foal price.

Lot 79
B c Frankel - Ribbons (Manduro)
Consigned by Malcolm Bastard

A typically well-bred son of Frankel, this Malcolm Bastard-consigned colt is bred on a similar line to the dual world champion's first Classic winner in Japanese heroine Soul Stirring, who is out of a Monsun mare in Stacelita.

Ribbons, a daughter of Monsun's son Manduro, won the Prix Romanet and Blandford Stakes in a career that saw her land seven races from two to five-years-old.

A half-sister to Duke of Cambridge Stakes runner-up Tribute Act, Ribbons has produced the placed Frankel filly Tilly Frankl as well as a daughter of Dubawi in Missile.

Her remarkable third dam, Kalinka, heads a family which includes champion older mare Soviet Song, a multiple Group 1-winning miler, and Baralinka, the granddam of European champion sprinter Marsha and high-class sprinter Judicial.

Lot 119
B c Ulysses - Zuhoor Baynoona (Elnadim)
Consigned by The Bloodstock Connection

Cheveley Park's first-season sire Ulysses holds all the credentials to prove a sire of note over the coming years, and this colt has the pedigree to be an able performer on the track.

Ulysses: first-season sire is represented at the Craven Breeze Up SaleCredit: Cheveley Park Stud

The juvenile is out of the stakes-winning Zuhoor Baynoona, an Elnadim half-sister to Diamond Jubilee and Haydock Sprint Cup winner Hello Youmzain - now plying his trade as a stallion at Haras d'Etreham - and champion Italian sprinter Royal Youmzain.

Zuhoor Baynoona has already produced a winner in Custodian, a colt by Muhaarar, while her three-year-old Frankel filly Attendant is in training with David O'Meara.

Lot 146
Ch f Profitable - Caressor (Pulpit)
Consigned by Kilbrew Stables

Darley's exciting first-season sire Profitable has got off to an excellent start at stud with a winner and two placed runners from four to have made the track.

His progeny were well received last year and this filly looks a valuable prospect given she is out of a full-sister to the brilliant American sire Tapit.

The Kilbrew Stables-consigned filly can also count Ruby Slippers as her third dam, who was responsible for champion American sprinter Rubiano and the stakes-placed High Cascade among ten winners. A likely racy and precocious sort, there could be further updates to her page with her Kingman half-brother yet to race.

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