With 62 yearlings, Haras Vacacion will hold its Gran Venta Selecta this Thursday

The farm will market 32 sons of the champion Fortify and part of the first crop of the Japanese Satono Flag, starting at 3:00 p.m. at the Tattersall of the Hipodromo de San Isidro

Sweet Deal, part of the first crop of Satono Flag / (ARG) SALES

The exclusive juvenile auction season will begin this Thursday when Haras Vacacion offers the best of its 2024 crop at its Gran Venta Selecta, starting at 3:00 p.m. at the San Isidro Tattersall, organized by the firm Sales.

With pre-bidding already underway—offering the customary discounts—62 colts and fillies will pass through the sales ring, including offspring of the highly established Fortify (Distorted Humor), Hi Happy (Pure Prize), Cityscape(Selkirk), Señor Candy (Candy Ride), part of the second and final crop of Uncle Chuck (Uncle Mo), and the first foals by Satono Flag (Deep Impact), the Japanese stallion who is the new major bet for the stud farm owned by Pablo Zavaleta and Damasia Lottero.

Paseana (Ahmad), Balada Sale (Not for Sale), Litigado (Kitwood), Lenovo (Roman Ruler), Rafaga (Pepenador), Rosadora (Pepenador), La Esperanza (Bold Forli)—the list of champions bred at the fields near San Antonio de Areco is endless, and their genetics continue with great power.

Among the offspring of Satono Flag, an interesting individual is Sweet Deal, a filly out of the G1 winner Tarsilia(Roman Ruler) and a half-sister to the G2 winner Touch the Sky (Not for Sale) and the stakes-placed Trilogia Romana(Roman Ruler); as is Ser Feliz, by the black-type winner Stormy Vagueness (Bernstein) and a half-sister to G2 winner Vagabunco Inc (Include) and G3 winner Sabiyano (Easing Along), from the pedigree of Vacacion (Voodoo).

Also belonging to the first generation of the Japanese sire is Thondir (out of Tancreda, by Roman Ruler), a half-brother to G3 winner Tan Creido (Hurricane Cat), to the multiple stakes winner in Peru Forty Estrella (Fortify), and to the black-type placed Touch the Stars (Fortify), Tobera (Fortify), Tregura (Dynamix), and Tranquila Señora (Fortify); as well as siblings to Enjoy Dancing (Hi Happy), El Emirato (Roman Ruler), Fidenzia (Hurricane Cat), and Balkana (Roman Ruler).

Touch of Heaven is another colt drawing significant attention, being a son of Fortify and the aforementioned Touch the Sky, as are Many Chances (Fortify), out of the notable Madonna Girl (Greenspring); Abrir El Corazon (Fortify), out of the G2 winner Ayra (Roman Ruler); Coachella (Fortify), out of the G2 winner Cielo Abierto (Roman Ruler); or Muy Romantica (Fortify), the first foal of the G2 winner Miss Eder (Equal Stripes). A full sister to the G3 winner Liberto is Lucky Princess (Fortify and Libratura, by Manipulator), rounding out a catalog from which a star of the next season could easily emerge.