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Brown.“ It is rare for a Royal Ascot winner to come onto the market, and he is still relatively lightly raced. The plan looks like he is going to go back to Andrew [ Balding, trainer ] with potentially a Middle Eastern campaign ahead, but we will give him a break now.”
JHRA SELECT SALE 14 / 15 JULY It was a new era for Japanese bloodstock as the first foals by six-time Group / Graded winner Equinox entered the ring, achieving an incredible combined total of 3,565,000,000 yen(€ 20,655,610). The first Equinox foal to be offered at public auction in Japan, a filly out of Prix Penelope( Gr. 2) winner Camprock fetched 230,000,000 yen to Kaneko Makoto Holdings – a useful return on investment for Northern Farm’ s Katsumi Yoshida, who purchased the mare for 850,000 euros at Arqana in 2016. Yet it was little surprise to see Lot 344 catch the imagination of many buyers. The colt is the fourth foal out of US Champion Older Dirt Mare Midnight Bijou, and his price of 580,000,000 yen was the third-highest achieved in the sale’ s history. Nebraska Racing were listed as the purchasers of the impeccably-bred colt, but their identity remains undisclosed. In the yearling section, Shadai Stallion Station’ s Kitasan Black, sire of Equinox, continued to dominate, achieving the highest price of the session at 420,000,000 yen.
The colt is out of a fourtime Graded winning mare in Australia Mosheen, and was bought by the unknown Nebraska Racing. Katsumi Yoshida, Director of JRHA and owner of Northern Farm, said:“ There were more than 200 visitors at our Northern Farm yesterday, which is 30 % more than last year. Therefore, I expected active market, but this is actually more active I expected.“ We have strong roster of stallions here in Japan and the quality of broodmare in Japan is very high standard now. And I understand all consignors did a very good job to prepare their yearlings for today’ s session. I think the owners could make big investment with confidence.”
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