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Grade 1 winner Awesome Maria, who is
in foal to Giant’s Causeway, sold to team
Coolmore for $4 million at Keeneland

no surprise to see Mizdirection much in
demand after landing her second consecutive
victory in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf
Sprint.
The five-year-old Mizzen Mast mare
was purchased for Sheikh Joaan Al Thani
for $2.7m, a price matched by Shadai Farm
to buy dual Grade 1 winner Champagne
D’Oro, who was offered in foal to Tapit.
Shadai Farm also purchased the first mare
offered in foal to Frankel, paying $2.4m for
the Grade 1-winning Empire Maker mare
In Lingerie.
Even without an eight-figure top lot,
the sale saw aggregate rise by 23 per cent to
$73,859,000. The median also recorded an

upturn, rising 31.6 per cent to $250,000,
but the average declined, dropping 17.3 per
cent to $572,550.
KEENELAND NOVEMBER
BREEDING STOCK

Horses with form at this year’s Breeders’
Cup were also in demand at the marathon
Keeneland November Breeding Stock
Sale.
Groupie Doll (Bowman’s Band), another
dual Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup winner in the Filly
& Mare Sprint, was also on the shopping list
of Mandy Pope, who secured the five-year-old
for $3,100,000.
However, it was the six-year-old mare
Awesome Maria (Maria’s Mon) who topped

MAJOR BREEDING-STOCK SALES IN 2013

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SALE

Fasig-Tipton November
Keeneland November
Goffs November Foals
Goffs November Breeding-Stock
Tattersalls December Foals
Tattersalls December Mares

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AGGREGATE (2012)

AVERAGE (2012)

TOP LOT (2012)

0$73,859,000 (+22.6%)
0$197,189,000 (+37.9%)
0€18,082,200 (+22.6%)
0€25,745,600 (+215.7%)
031,420,400gns (+30.2%)
62,997,700gns (+43.4%)

$572,550 (-17.3%)
$80,256 (+35.5%)
€26,282 (+1.58%)
€73,982 (+165.8%)
26,468gns (+24.6%)
87,497gns (+51.8%)

$5,200,000 ($10,000,000)
$4,000,000 ($4,500,000)
¤420,000 (¤310,000)
€6,000,000 (€450,000)
450,000gns (500,000gns)
4,700,000gns (1,700,000gns)

the ten-day sale, selling to MV Magnier
for $4,000,000. Offered in foal to Giant’s
Causeway, the Grade 1 winner is out of a
half-sister to the sire Discreet Cat.
Awesome Maria was one of a parcel of
mares offered as part of the breeding-stock
dispersal from E Paul Robsham Stables,
and another member of the group, Grade 2
winner Broadway’s Alibi, was purchased
for $2,150,000 by Jon Clay, while another,
R Heat Lightning, sold for $1,600,000 to
Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet T horoughbreds.
In all, 14 lots were sold for seven-figure
sums and the auction recorded its secondbest results since 2007, bettered only in
2011 when the sale featured the dispersal
of Edward P Evans’ breeding stock.
The aggregate of $197,189,000 for
2,457 horses sold was a near-38 per cent
gain on 2012, while the average soared by
an impressive 35.5 per cent to $80,256 and
the median increased by a massive 59 per
cent to $35,000, equalling the record. t