Broodmare sold for $US7M

Press, 12 November 1985, Page 51

Broodmare sold for $US7M

NZPA-Reuter Lexington

Nearly SUS 47 million (5NZ80.37 million) was raised in a large sale of thoroughbred holdings and several purchase records were broken in the process, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sales agents announced. In a special sale for the complete dispersal of holdings of Newstead Farm Trust, set up by Mr and Mrs Taylor Hardin, 42 mares and foals sold for nearly JU537.2 million ($NZ63.6 million) and 21 stallion shares fetched more than SUS9.B ■ million ($NZ16.76 million).

A world record of ?US7 million (SNZI2 million) was paid by Foxfield, owned by an American financier, Mr Carl Icahn, for Miss Oceana, in foal to Northern Dancer. The four-year-old Miss Oceana, carrying her first foal, was a champion filly which won six grade one stakes races and earned more than ?USI million in the two years that she raced. The previous record for a mare was set last year when Daily Stud Management, of England, paid ?US6 million (?NZ10.26 million) dollars for Priceless Fame, in foal to Seattle Slew.

Oceana’s dam was also sold. Kittiwake, in foal to Alydar, was bought by Mint Tree Stables for SUS3.B million (?NZ6.54 million). A record SUS2.S million (SNZ4.3 million) for a weanling was paid by 8.8. A., of England, for a bay filly by Seattle Slew out of Larida. The mare, Larida, sold for SUS 4 million (JNZ6.BB million) to Foxfield, a record for a mare not in foal. In another record purchase price, a weanling chestnut colt by Alydar out of Kittiwake was bought for $U5950,000 (SNZI.62 million) by an American, Mr Allen Paulson.