In total shock!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MissDeMeena]

Some old friends of ours, who kinda 'play' at point-2-pointing (ie they have 2/3 runing) and always have a load of youngstock running around the place, which they usually take to the sales before they're broken.. have just bought a new broodmare! and i've just been told they payed £90k for it!! £90k for a broodmare!!

Ok Ok Ok, i know they go for alot more than that, but to big time studs/breeders, not to your average nextdoor neighbour, who got funny about paying £2k for a pony for their neice!!

 

[CastleMouse]

Oh my God!

£90k for a broodmare?!?!?!??!

 

[vicijp]

Do you know what the mare is?
Lets hope she doesnt get a kick out in the field - madness!

 

[lalalalala]

ouch!

 

[Forget_Me_Not]

God if that was me broodmare... i'd spend a 90k more on cottom wool..... and CTV!!!

 

[Weezy]

GOOD GOD!!!

 

[samsaccount]

90k!!!! OMG do they have money to burn or something. Mind you, they may be funny about spending 2k on someone else, but sound perfectly happy spending 45 x that for themselves.

Lets just hope she is VERY fertile!!!

 

[Blizzard]

OMG!!

 

[MissDeMeena]

It's Very closely related to something Very smart.. i've just looked it up on 'racingpost', and either someone has been telling me porkies, or my neighbours have been 'had'.. it has been through the sales 3 times before, first time in 'oo making 27000gns, then in Feb '05 making just over 10000gns then the last time on the racingpost website was Jul '05 where it made 8500gns.
Could those prices of been for it as a racehorse, and now being so well related, it's price has gone up as a broodmare???

 

[tigers_eye]

If that's the case I'll toddle off and buy myself a cr*p performer but with good bloodlines then retire it and make a bomb!

 

[lorenababbit]

i should think so and if it was racing then one of its siblings must have done some winning since.

 

[vicijp]

If the brother/sister has had black type since last sale then price would shoot up a fair bit. Could also depend on who/ife is in foal to?

 

[eventergirl87]

Blumming heck!!

mind you a friend of a friend brought a broodmare for like nothing .........

couple of her first foals then went and won group one races....... they sold the mare and the latest foal and make 10 grand short of a millon!!

 

[MissDeMeena]

It's out of the same mare as a 4yr old currently doing VERY well (this broodmare is now 12)..
Since it was last sold in summer '05 for 8000gns, one of its own offspring is also doing very well.. and it's in foal to 'Exit to Nowhere'
And they didn't pay £90k, but 100k euros!

 

[seabiscuit]

Can you give us a hint on the mares name or the offspring?!! Am intrigued!!

 

[S_N]

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Can you give us a hint on the mares name or the offspring?!! Am intrigued!!

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I am too!! PLEASE pm me MDM!!

 

[vicijp]

The price increase is probably justified if they are pattern races. Did they buy it off Scarvagh? If so, they probably increased it just a little too much!

 

[MissDeMeena]

Will give clue, it's out of the same dam as Detroit City.

 

[Tia]

Wow! We can but dream eh? I think I might have chosen to extend my house if I had that sort of money, LOL!!

 

[S_N]

I take it you mean the French dred Detroit City, not the Irish or USA ones - I foaled the USA one

 

[S_N]

PMSL!!! That should say French bred, not dred

 

[MissDeMeena]

The USA one, the one that's currently in training with PH.

 

[S_N]

REALLY?? WOW!!! THAT is a good family, from what I remember - wish I could get to a proper pedigree!! Seattle Victory is a lovely, lovely mare!! WOW - small world eh!!

P.S. I know you don't mean SV herself. I'm not suprised at the price tbh! But then I became a bit blase about the price of TB's in the US esp. - I mean because I became overly familiar with TB's worth 6 and 7 figures, in my place of work, NOT becasue I could afford one myself!

 

[Kelly1982]

How can they afford to pay that if they are just your average joe or have they got more money than sense??

Maybe its just a rumour, who would pay that for a broodmare even if you was rich!!

 

[MissDeMeena]

I now know what a good family it is.. and the price isn't out of this world for a good broodmare.. the shock what that 'they' payed it!!

They arn't your average Joe tho, they are lawyers! so ern more than a bob or two!!

But am still shocked that a horse like that has turned up in the field down the road! hehe

 

[S_N]

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I now know what a good family it is.. and the price isn't out of this world for a good broodmare.. the shock what that 'they' payed it!!

They arn't your average Joe tho, they are lawyers! so ern more than a bob or two!!

But am still shocked that a horse like that has turned up in the field down the road! hehe

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LOL - that I do fully understand!!!