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The rearranged Arqana Breeze-Up Sale takes place at Goffs UK on Friday; here we pick out five lots who could well take the Doncaster auction by storm.
Lot 16: By sire of the moment Siyouni, Gaybrook Lodge Stud's colt is out of a high-class American performer in Giants Play, a daughter of the great Giant's Causeway who won the New York Stakes for Christophe Clement.
A $850,000 purchase by John Warren at the 2008 Keeneland September Sale and a half-sister to two black type winners, Giants Play is out of the Fillies' Mile winner and Irish Oaks second Playful Act, a top-class performer for John Gosden and the Sangster family.
Giants Play has herself produced three black type horses including German St Leger scorer Ispolini and Vivionn, second in last season's Park Hill Fillies' Stakes for Cheveley Park Stud and Sir Michael Stoute.
Lot 22: Described by Matt Eves as "one of our most exciting horses breezing", this colt holds an outstanding pedigree. By the prolific Dark Angel, he is out of a Classic heroine in Jet Setting, a daughter of Fast Company who famously downed the brilliant Minding in the 2016 Irish 1,000 Guineas.
Lot 38: A son of Coolmore's first-season sire and dual Guineas winner Churchill, this colt is a half-brother to the 2012 Japanese Derby winner Deep Brillante, now standing at Shadai Stallion Station, and the Grade 3-placed Hubble Bubble.
Out of the Loup Sauvage mare Love And Bubbles, the winner of the Prix Chloe for Robert Collet and a half-sister to Gran Premio di Milano fourth Jeune Dream, Glending Stables' charge has a truly international pedigree with dual American Gr.2 winner and Turf Classic Stakes runner-up Qurbaan among his further family.
Lot 49: By a sire sensation in Kingman and a half-brother to last year's German Oaks winner in Miss Yoda, Grove Stud's colt is undoubtedly one of the auction's best-bred offerings.
The Banstead Manor Stud sire has shown an affinity for crosses with German-bred mares with Gordon Richard Stakes and Blue Riband winners Waldkonig and Wirko bearing fruits this term, and this colt is out of the German-bred Monami, who won the Group 2 Diana-Trial in her home country.
Lot 134: Out of the Listed-winning Rock Of Gibraltar mare Anna's Rock - a half-sister to two stakes performers including Aniseed, the dam of Global Giant - this Lope De Vega colt is himself a half-brother to the high-class Breton Rock.
Breton Rock was a ten-time winner for David Simcock with his biggest successes coming in the Lennox, Hungerford and Park Stakes. The Bahamian Bounty gelding was also third behind Ribchester in the Lockinge among 14 further places in Group/Listed company.