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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.
Valegro (born 5 July 2002) is a gelding ridden by the British equestrian Charlotte Dujardin in the sport of dressage.He stands 16.2 hands (66 inches, 168 cm) and has the stable name of Blueberry.
The colt was purchased as a yearling for $4 million by Fusao Sekiguchi, which is the highest price paid for a Kentucky Derby winner. [2] [3] His name is a combination of his owner's name, "Fusao", and the Japanese word for one, "ichi", to mean No. 1 or the best; the second half of his name came from that of a winged horse in Greek mythology.
Then, like the oil trade today, the horse trade was hugely profitable. A horse might cost as little as 100 rupees (then worth about 11 grams of silver) in Afghanistan, but could go for as much as ...
After a 15-year career in MLB, Jayson Werth's new venture is horse racing. Here's what to know about the former Philadelphia Phillies star outfielder. Jayson Werth owns Kentucky Derby hopeful Dornoch.
Mage is the second black-type horse out of his dam's four foals, the other being a stakes-placed Gun Runner filly named Gunning. Mage's full brother Dornoch is also a grade-I stakes winner, having won the 2024 Belmont Stakes .
A couple years ago, he jumped into horse racing, not betting on races but owning race horses. And, voila, Werth has a horse, Dornoch, in the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Horse breeder: G. Watts Humphrey Jr. (born June 12, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio) [1] is a Pittsburgh businessman and thoroughbred owner and breeder. Background.