US buyers help broodmare sale to record

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 5:25pm

US buyers have leapt at a rare opportunity to secure members of a great Australian bloodstock family at the National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

Close relations to champion stallion Redoute's Choice, his Group One-winning brother Platinum Scissors and his half-brother Manhattan Rain, also a Group One winner, were offered due to businessman Muzaffar Yaseen downsizing his Teeley Assets bloodstock portfolio.

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Miracles Of Life was also among more than 50 horses to be sold as part of the Teeley Assets draft which fetched a record $23.037 million at the Magic Millions complex on Wednesday.

Kentucky-based Stonestreet Farm paid $900,000 for Miracles Of Life, which will race on as part of the Peter and Paul Snowden team at Randwick.

Bloodstock agent James Harron helped another Kentucky-based operation, Hill `N' Dale Farm, to secure Taste Of Heaven, a sister to Manhattan Rain and half-sister to Redoute's Choice for $1.5 million.

The pair also combined to buy Drifting Cube, a seven-start maiden by Encosta De Lago, for $1.1 million.

Harron said Hill `N' Dale Farm was particularly keen to buy into the Redoute's Choice family to add to their 100-strong broodmare band.

"The Redoute's Choice family is internationally renowned and opportunities to buy mares of this quality don't come up often," Harron said.

"The market deserved to be as strong as it was. We rated both horses extremely highly."

Harron said Hill `N' Dale's purchases would head to Newgate Farm in the Hunter Valley before travelling to the US to be served in the northern hemisphere breeding season.

Newgate Farm spent $6.2 million on six horses, including sisters Quench The Thirst and Precious Lorraine who cost the breeder $1.5 million each.

Quench The Thirst was sold in foal to Widden Stud stallion Stratum.

Leading international breeder Coolmore Stud topped the day's results when it paid $2.3 million for Monsoon Wedding, a sister to Redoute's Choice, in foal to young stallion Pierro.

Coolmore also paid $1.4 million for Estelle Collection, the dam of the world's highest-rated sprinter Lankan Rupee.

A Group Three winner herself, Estelle Collection is confirmed to be in foal again to Lankan Rupee's sire Redoute's Choice.

– AAP

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