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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 ...
Timberlake is a bay colt who was bred in Kentucky by Vincent Viola's St. Elias Stable. [2] Timberlake was bought for $350,000 from the Gainesway consignment at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale to the WinStar Farm & Siena Farms partnership. He is the fourth of six foals from the Irish-bred Pin Up and her first graded stakes winner.
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.
The highest price paid at auction for a Thoroughbred was set in 2006 at $16,000,000 for a two-year-old colt named The Green Monkey, [14] who was a descendant of Northern Dancer. Record prices at auction often grab headlines, though they do not necessarily reflect the animal's future success; in the case of The Green Monkey, injuries limited him ...
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 ] Breeding
Similarly, a yearling is a horse of either sex between the ages of one and two. A young female horse is called a filly, and a mare once she is an adult animal. In horse racing, particularly for Thoroughbreds in the United Kingdom, a colt is defined as an uncastrated male from the age of two up to and including the age of four. [3]
A yearling is a young horse either male or female that is between one and two years old. [1] Yearlings are comparable in development to a very early adolescent and are not fully mature physically. While they may be in the earliest stages of sexual maturity, they are considered too young to be breeding stock.
At the September 2004 Keeneland yearling sales, a Storm Cat colt since named Mr. Sekiguchi sold for $8 million, and in the 2005 sale, another of his colts, Jalil, sold for $9.7 million. The price was the highest ever paid for a yearling sold at the Keeneland September sale and is third-highest overall. [10]