Sheikh Mohammed buys Oaks winner for £4.2m
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has made a splash at the opening twenty-four hours of the Tattersalls Dec Mare Sale inwards Britain, going to 4 meg guineas to secure Oaks winner Dancing Rain, who is inwards foal to Frankel.
The cost of 4 meg guineas – equivalent to £4.2 meg ($US6.9m; $NZ8.3m; $A7.5m) – is the second highest cost for a broodmare at auction inwards Europe.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Prime Minister and Vice-President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and constitutional monarch of Dubai, together with the husband of FEI president Princess Haya.
He is a major figure inwards international horse racing and breeding, together with his racing operations include the ownership of Darley Stables. He is the leading partner inwards his family’s Godolphin Stables, together with hosts the Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse.
Dancing Rain, a immature lady of Danehill Dancer out of Rain Flower (Indian Ridge) is the alone Oaks winner carrying her outset foal to last offered at world auction inwards the past times 50 years.
Badger’s Bloodstock’s Grant Pritchard-Gordon opening the bidding at 2 meg guineas earlier Highflyer Bloodstock’s David Minton chimed inwards along with Pinar Araci, immature lady of Ibrahim Araci. As the cost rose, Araci, who was sat amongst bloodstock advisor Rob Speers bid 3.9 meg earlier John Ferguson, bloodstock adviser for Sheikh Mohammed, came inwards with his outset bid at 4 meg guineas to secure the mare.
“It actually was a no-brainer,” said Ferguson exterior the packed sales ring.
“Sheikh Mohammed has non bought a lot of mares inwards the recent years, simply at the destination of the twenty-four hours Sheikh Mohammed felt that, to utilisation the former phrase, she actually did tick all the boxes – she is an Oaks winner from the household unit of measurement of a Derby winner.
“This game is all virtually reducing the odds together with plough over y'all the greatest adventure of producing a Classic winner – buying Dancing Rain is a agency of reducing those odds.
“You tin stimulate got lots of mares, simply y'all involve the jewels – Sheikh Mohammed felt that she is a jewel.
“On newspaper she looks the part, simply in that place were 2 things inwards item that I loved virtually her. First, she is such a beautiful mare, together with hence minute I had supper with William together with Maureen Haggas at the weekend together with they told me what a straightforward pleasance she was to train.
“And nosotros haven’t fifty-fifty got to the fact that she is in-foal to Frankel!”
Bred inwards Republic of Ireland past times Swettenham Stud, an Australian breeding functioning owned past times the Sangster family, Dancing Rain was foaled at Camas Park Stud in Tipperary. She was bought every bit a yearling past times Liam Norris together with William Huntingdon for €200,000 for brothers Martin together with Lee Taylor, for whom Norris manages Clairemont Stud inwards Hampshire.
Dancing Rain’s 3rd dam, Rose of Jericho (Alleged), is the dam of Derby winner Dr Devious.
She raced inwards the United Kingdom, Ireland, Deutschland together with Japan, together with was the unanticipated winner of the 2011 Epsom Oaks and won the Preis der Diana in the later on purpose of her three-year-old season. Her four-year-old flavor was plagued with injury together with she did non run inwards a race until belatedly Oct 2012. She was retired at the destination of the year.
Flaxman Stables’ Alan Cooper signed for the minute take away house cost when he went to 960,000 guineas to secure the Group 2 Challenge Stakes winner Fiesolana. The immature lady of Aussie Rules was bought inwards 2011 every bit a breeze-up filly past times Federico Barberini for €35,000 together with consigned hither past times Ballyphilip Stud on behalf of Geraldine Regan.
The alone other lot on the opening twenty-four hours offered inwards foal to Frankel was the Kingmambo mare Drops who was consigned from The Castlebridge Consignment. The four-year-old mare is a immature lady of the Oaks winning filly Alexandrova together with was knocked downward to Charlie Mason’s Silfield Bloodstock for 750,000 guineas.
A sum of 203 lots were sold for 18,693,000 guineas, a ascent of 64% on 2012, whilst the average together with median besides both jumped upwards significantly past times 51% together with 40% to 92,084 guineas together with 42,000 guineas respectively.
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