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For example, at the 2007 Fall Yearling sale at Keeneland, 3,799 young horses sold for a total of $385,018,600, for an average of $101,347 per horse. [2] However, that average sales price reflected a variation that included at least 19 horses that sold for only $1,000 each and 34 that sold for over $1,000,000 apiece. [7]
Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year.It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), in accordance with horse-racing tradition.
Following the Select sessions an extended 'Book 2' (offering a choicer grade of prospects) period of selling will precede the open yearling sessions that make up the latter half of the sale. In recent years, the September sale has produced multiple Kentucky Derby winners, an Epsom Derby winner, an American Horse of the Year , and a Triple Crown ...
In Thoroughbred racing, a claiming race is a type of horse race in which the horses are all for sale at a specified claiming price until shortly before the race. In the hierarchy of horse races, based on the quality of the horses that compete, claiming races are at the bottom, below maiden races (races for horses that have never won a race).
The November Sale currently holds three world records for horses offered at public auction: top-priced broodmare, Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, who sold for $14,000,000 in 2008; [8] top-priced broodmare prospect, champion Havre de Grace, who sold for $10,000,000 in 2012; [9] [10] and top-priced juvenile filly, Breeders' Cup Juvenile ...
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A selling race, or seller, is one in which the winner is put up for auction immediately after the race. [11] An optional claiming race is a hybrid of allowance and claiming race, developed to increase field sizes. A horse who does not fit the conditions can still "run for the tag", i.e. be run conditional on also being offered for sale.
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