In frenetic early trade at Tattersalls during the second session of Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale, a third yearling by the champion sire Frankel (GB) left the ring with a seven-figure price tag as Coolmore's MV Magnier bid 2.4 million gns for the three-parts-brother to group winners Broome (Ire) and Point Lonsdale (Ire). Godolphin was the underbidder.
Sold by breeder Denis Brosnan of Ireland's Croom House Stud as lot 238, the late April colt is a son of the stakes-winning Acclamation (GB) mare Sweepstake (Ire). The mare's 2-year-old, half-sister to the above, Saadiyat (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), is entered to make her debut at Saint-Cloud on Thursday.
Just half an hour earlier, Watership Down Stud's Frankel colt out of So Mi Dar (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) set a new high as the most expensive yearling sold in the world this year when sold to Godolphin for 2.8 million gns.
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Just like the good oul days with Coolmore & Godolphin bidding against each other for this colt by Frankel @JuddmonteFarms but it was the former who won out. Sold by @CroomStud pic.twitter.com/9qCV2T8sEW— TDN (@theTDN) October 5, 2022
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