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Bloodstock recently celebrated their first Australian stakes success when two
year-old filly Crafty won the Listed VRC Taj Rossi Series Final at Flemington,
prompting many breeders to wonder just where the investment in Australasian bloodstock
by members of the Al Thani family will end.
In Europe, the Al Thani family have put some real heat into the bloodstock
market accounting for 12.1 % of the aggregate at last year's Tattersalls October
Yearling Sale and paying 5 million guineas for the top priced Galileo filly.
Trained by Andre Fabre for Al Shaqab Racing, she has since come out and won easily
at her only start at Chantilly last month as Al Naamah and looks to have a
bright future.
While their investment in our bloodstock is yet to match their spending in the
Northern Hemisphere it is something that local breeders will be pondering and
this story on UK Racing Post makes for interesting reading.
Click here to see why UK breeders are being urged against 'wild expansion'.