Value at the Gold Coast?

Tara Madgwick - Friday June 2
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.

Best BehaviorThere 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.

Click 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.

Click here to see the full list of sales for mares in foal to Frankel.



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