leighton said:
Just a quick question about the sales? Know if your owner like Coolmore with the top class horses they have does every horse thats breed go to the sales or can they keep the best of the lot and send the rest to the sales? Or is it a case of it all goes to the sales.
As for the blood look at Goldolphin in recent years they have being buying up a lot of Irish based horses over the recent years to get the blood lines in. IF any horse has a bit of Galileo in them at Welds Goldolphin will pounce if its a decent horse. They all want some of Galileo. I do wonder how many millions they will make from Galileo over the next 10 to 15 years that horse is printing money for Coolmore.
Aparently one of the last figures on record for galileo's stud fee was about £180'000 a pop,5 years ago....Should imagine its gone up bigtime.
How about this beast though
Between 1974 and 1988, twelve times Northern Dancer yearlings led the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale by average price. In the 1983 Keeneland Sales horse auction, one of Windfields' colts, that would eventually be named Snaafi Dancer, became the first $10 million yearling. In 1984 his twelve yearlings sold for an unrivaled sale-record average of price of US$3,446.666.[4]
In the 1980s,
Northern Dancer's stud fee reached US$1 million, an amount four to five times his rivals and a record amount that as of 2009 has not been equalled.[5]
Although he has been dead for almost twenty years, there are more Northern Dancer-line Breeder's Cup winners than any other horse. According to France Galop, since 1994 the male bloodline of every Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner goes back to Nearco, his son Nasrullah, and his grandson Northern Dancer.
Northern Dancer is also the paternal grandsire of several prominent stallions, including
Storm Cat, Deputy Minister, El Prado, and Danehill. He is the great-grandsire (on both the sire and dam side) of Big Brown, the winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Northern Dancer is the great-grandsire of Australia's superstar mare, Makybe Diva. He is an ancestor of the winners of all three U.S. Triple Crown races in 2009—Mine That Bird in the Kentucky Derby, Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness, and Summer Bird in the Belmont. He is on both sides of the pedigrees of Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra. He is the great-great-grandsire of Sea the Stars. Undefeated racehorse, Frankel, is inbred 3 x 4 to Northern Dancer, meaning that Northern Dancer appears once in the third generation and once in the fourth generation of his pedigree. Northern Dancer is the great-great-grandsire (all paternal) to undefeated Australian mare Black Caviar.
Storm cat was also charging half a million to empty his sacks,and in his early days was only $20'000..........
By all accounts Frankel is going to stand at about £250'000 a pump :)
Theres some money in this game!
