arqana consignors
Selling yearlings at Arqana in September Jocelyn de Moubray chats with three consignors ahead of this year’s unique Arqana Select Sale, now due to be staged on September 9-11 • Antoine Bellanger, Arcadia Elevage • Thierry Dalla Longa, Haras de Saint Vincent • Philip Lybeck, Haras de Bourgeauville
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NTOINE BELLANGER is already a familiar figure at the sales in Deauville, but until now he has always been wearing the grey and pink colours of the Haras des
Monceaux. Bellanger worked for 11 years at Monceaux – he won the 2016 Godolphin Award for stud personnel while he was there and finished his time as the manager of the yearling division. This year he will be fronting his own consignment for the first time as his Arcadia Elevage has five colts and two fillies in the September catalogue. Bellanger’s boyish looks and reserved manner serves to conceal the fact that he has spent some 15 years or more working with top-class bloodstock and, together with
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“There is a French saying that it is better to have a little place of your own than a big house belonging to someone else, and I decided it was time to pay heed!
his companion Aline Giraud, the marketing director of the Aga Khan Studs, he is set to become an important part of the new generation in French breeding. “I felt good when I was at Monceaux,” he explains, “it is a privilege to work with such high-quality horses but part of me was not fully satisfied and I needed a new challenge to move forward to continue progressing. “There is a French saying that it is better to have a little place of your own than a big house belonging to someone else, and I decided it was time to pay heed!” Last year Bellanger bought an organic cattle farm at Saint-André-d’Hébertot, a small village close to Pont l’Eveque and only 35km from Deauville. The first horses arrived on the farm in November with more coming after the Arqana December Sale. Three purchased
