It will be a few years before we find out if Summer Song du Champ du Bois will follow in her celebrated sire Presley Boy’s tracks, but in the meantime she will receive the same training at the stables of Mexican rider Jaime Azcarraga. He bought the four-year-old mare on Tuesday, January 4th at the Youhorse.auction for 60,000 euros via Hank Melse, who also sold him Presley Boy many years ago.

The black beauty Presley Boy enjoyed a lot of success under Azcarraga, who sold him in 2010 to the Saudi Arabian Equestrian Federation where he competed superbly under Olympic rider Khaled Abdulaziz Al Eid. The Concorde son became the public’s darling and, among other achievements, he finished individual twelfth at the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. Another remarkable thing about daughter Summer Song is that her dam, Tess Briolita (Kalypso), also performed at the 1.60m level, ridden by Ramzy al Duhami (KSA).

“She is an amazing mare,” says Mario Everse, who ran the 18th auction from January 1-4, together with Alan Waldman. “We started the year well. We had a good collection, good prices and a high sales percentage with clients from sixteen different countries. Our aim is to go on having an auction every month, the next one will be our ‘Valentine auction’, a week before Valentine’s Day, for anyone who still has to come up with a present for a beloved one,” Everse adds jokingly.

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