While
many top end mares looked very expensive this week at the Magic Millions
National Broodmare Sale, global breeders would no doubt have seen value in the
mares offered in foal to premium Northern Hemisphere sires Tapit and Frankel.
Champion sire Tapit stands at Gainesway a fee of $US300,000, which equates to
$406,201 in Australian dollars.
There were eight mares offered in foal to the charismatic grey and seven were
sold with the most expensive being US Group III winner Best Behavior (USA), who
made $500,000 for Newgate Farm when bought by David Lucas for Dubai based Phoenix Thoroughbreds
and was in foal to Tapit in her first season at stud.
The mare was sourced at the Fasig Tipton Kentucky Summer Sale last year where
she was bought by SF Bloodstock for $US250,000.
Newgate also sold the next highest priced mare in foal to Tapit with stakes-winner
Lindisfarne (USA) bought by the same purchaser for $400,000, also in foal in
her first season at stud.
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here to see the full list of mares in foal to Tapit and their purchasers.
World champion racehorse and now one of the hottest young sires in Europe,
Frankel stands at Juddmonte Farms at a fee of 125,000 pounds which equates to $217,915
Australian dollars.
There were five mares offered in foal to Frankel and four were sold, three
bought by Paul Willetts Bloodstock for $400,000, $300,000 and $300,000, while
the most expensive mare at $460,000 was bought by Rosemont Stud.
Consigned by Yulong Park, Up To You (USA) is a placed half-sister to Group I
winner Lucarno and two other Group II winners by Giant's Causeway. She was in
foal to Frankel in her first season at stud.
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here to see the full list of sales for mares in foal to Frankel.