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Champion New Zealand racehorse Avantage sold for a whopping $3.96 cardinal erstwhile purchased by planetary breeding elephantine Coolmore Stud successful a grounds terms for an online auction.
The nine-time radical one-winning mare, trained by Jamie Richards astatine Matamata, was retired from racing earlier this period and enactment up for merchantability connected New Zealand Bloodstock's online level Gavelhouse Plus.
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After a 15 infinitesimal bidding duel yesterday, Tom Magnier of Coolmore – the world's largest breeding cognition of thoroughbreds – placed the palmy bid successful a grounds for immoderate equine sold online, NZ Racing Desk reported.
The girl of apical sire Fastnet Rock became the 3rd highest-priced mare ever sold via auction successful the confederate hemisphere down Milanova, who fetched $5 cardinal successful 2008, and the $4.2 cardinal outlaid for Sunlight past year. All 3 were purchased by Coolmore.
Another champion Richards-trained mare, Melody Belle, fetched $2.6 cardinal astatine the Magic Millions merchantability connected the Gold Coast successful May.
Purchased for $203,000 by David Ellis arsenic a yearling astatine the Karaka sales, Avantage was prepared by Richards to triumph 16 of her 28 starts and $2.16 cardinal successful prizemoney.
Owned by the Te Akau Avantage syndicate, the six-year-old's racing vocation was brought to a abrupt halt past Friday aft suffering a tendon injury, erstwhile favourite for the radical 1 Tarzino Trophy astatine Hastings.
The past of Avantage's 9 radical 1 wins was astatine Te Rapa successful April, successful the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1600m).
It was the mare's 5th radical 1 successful the archetypal 4 months of this year.
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