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Thoroughbred valuation is the art of determining the value or potential value of a Thoroughbred horse, particularly of race horses. Prices on Thoroughbreds vary greatly, depending on age, pedigree, conformation, and other market factors. [1] In 2007, Keeneland Sales, a United States–based sales company, sold 9,124 horses at auction, with a ...
As of 2014, Seattle Dancer joins nine other descendants of Northern Dancer who clinch the entire list of the ten most expensive colts sold at auction. In July 1985, Seattle Dancer was sent to the Keenland selected yearling sale where intense bidding on behalf of major breeders such as Allen Paulson and Sheikh Mohammed drove his selling price to ...
Wajima was bred by Bull Hancock's renowned Claiborne Farm of Paris, Kentucky. He was out of the French mare Iskra, a daughter of Le Haar, the Leading sire in France in 1963. Wajima was a son of one of America's greatest sires, Bold Ruler. Sold as a yearling for a then-record $600,000 ($4.1 million inflation adjusted), [1] he was purchased by a ...
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Breeder. Donald T. Johnson (Crescent Farm) Owner. Aston Upthorpe Stud. Trainer. John L. Dunlop. Record. unraced. Snaafi Dancer (foaled February 25, 1982) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first yearling to sell for more than US$ 10 million ($31.2 million in current dollars). [2][3]
1903 "Old Glory" Sale Catalog. The Fasig-Tipton Company, Inc. is an auction house for Thoroughbred horses founded in 1898 by William B. Fasig and Edward A. Tipton. It is the oldest auction company of its kind in North America. Its first headquarters were in Madison Square Garden in New York, and Fasig-Tipton initially sold high-class road and ...
Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres (0.59 km 2) of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene. A division of Keeneland Association, Inc., it holds three annual horse auctions that attract buyers from around the ...
Northern Dancer Turf Stakes at Woodbine. Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 – November 16, 1990) was a Thoroughbred that, in 1964, became the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby. After being retired from racing, he became one of the most successful sires of the 20th century. He is considered a Canadian icon and was inducted into ...