Ah, a thread with a twist. Not only do you have to 'Guess How Much?' but you have to 'Guess What He's Talking About' too!
Is it the haynet? Or the fan? I'm liking the fan....
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Well, the most expensive neddy I've met is Saddlers Wells...at I think around £40 million....so I'm guessing £15 million for this beast...without the mud.
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Well I know he is standing at $75,000 next year. I always thought you multiplied the stud fee by 40 to get the valuation but I guess that is out of date nowadays.
So let's say he will cover around 100 mares - that's $7,500,000. Then times that by 2 or 3 assuming he will have at least a couple of crops before his value is reassessed - so that makes him worth between $15million & $22 million.
Any closer??
the horse is the 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, hard to put a value on him but seeing his stud fee for 2008 is $75,000 Darley Stud must have paid $20 million plus for him
I would say that's a heck of a lot for an unproven stallion. Fingers crossed for them he does the job!
BTW - I used to work in Newmarket for Sheikh Mohammed. Every day in the office we would watch the stallions being walked past our window - totting up their total value as they went - pretty scary amounts & glad it wasn't me holding on the bridle of a horse worth millions!!
He is the first horse to win both the Breeders Cup Juvi, and the KY Derby. Stud fees have fallen recently, look at Coolemore, and Storm Cart. HardSpun who won none of the triple crown races (I think he only won 1 grade 1) was sold for $25,000,000.
Storm Cat is $300,000 a go next year, down from $500,000 the previous year.
Sadler's Wells and Galileo in Ireland are both 'private' fees - rumoured to be anything up to 500,000 Euros!