Filly from Sunday Silence Mare Sells for World Record $7m in Japan
By Mark Smith - Breednet.com.au - 11 July 2006
Historically fillies have done little more than make up the numbers at theJapan Racing Horse Association Select Foal sale. That changed dramatically at the Northern Horse Park on Tuesday when Northern Farm’s filly from the first crop of Japanese Derby hero King Kamehameha (Kingmambo) set a new world record price for a foal sold at public auction.
Nobutaka Tada of Globe Equine Management Co. had the final say on the filly for a staggering 600,000,000 yen (A$7,006,032).
“She is beautiful,” Tada told The Blood-Horse. “I liked everything – her pedigree, conformation, eyes, face. I can’t express how beautiful she is.”
Barely five months old, the record setting filly is out of the Sunday Silence mare To the Victory, Champion Older Mare in Japan with 6 wins including the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (G1) and the runner-up in the 2001 Dubai World Cup (GI).
Second top price went to a brother to Japan Cup Dirt (G1) winner and promising young sire Kurofune, by former Arrowfield Stud shuttler French Deputy. The grey colt was purchased by Darley Japan for 300m yen (A$3,503,594)
The progeny of Coolmore Stud’s Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus were in strong demand. Three colts featured among the top priced lots making over A$1million