Tattersalls reports the price as the highest for a yearling sold at auction in Europe: Hip #144 by Galileo (IRE) out of Shastye (IRE)
Acquired by John Magnier.
:eek: -wheeze-
Here’s wishing I was the breeder…lol
RET (Ireland) Oct 8, 2013 “John Magnier purchases Galileo yearling for record 3.6million guineas”
River Dancer, who set the previous yearling record when he changed hands for 3.4m guineas at this sale in 2000, won a Leopardstown maiden and the Group 3 Prix La Force at Chantilly when he ran under the tutelage of Aidan O’Brien as Diaghilev.
His biggest win came in the Group 1 Audemars Piguet QEII Cup at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
The son of Saddler’s Wells never recouped his purchase price on the racecourse and missed out on a chance at a stud career after being gelded.
And a 5,000,000 gns filly today. Galileo kid, of course:
From Thoroughbred Daily News -
[B]5-Mil Gns Galileo Lass Lights Up Tatts Day 2Updated: 12:09 PM ET (First posted: 11:12 AM ET) hip 253 Yearling F Galileo (Ire)–Alluring Park (Ire) 5,000,000
Breeder: Lodge Park Stud
Buyer: Al Shaqab Racing
Consignor: Lodge Park Stud
Producing unprecedented fireworks on Day 2 of the Tattersalls October Sale in Newmarket, Lot 253, a filly by Galileo out of a half-sister to G1 Derby hero New Approach and a full-sister to multiple stakes winner Shinko Forest, stole the the show with a 5-million guineas final bid from Mandore International. The Mar. 30 filly is a full-sister to Was (Ire), winner of the G1 Investec Oaks. 5,000,000gns breaks the all-time record for a horse sold at a European auction and creates a world-record price for a yearling filly. [/B]
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Wow - crazy stuff! A little bit more from Irish Independent Oct 9, 2013
A FULL-SISTER to 2012 Oaks winner Was made a world record figure for a yearling filly sold at auction of 5million guineas (£5.25million) at Tattersalls Sales in Newmarket in England today.
The daughter of Galileo by Alluring Park was sold by Lodge Park Stud to Mandore International on behalf of Sheikh Joaan’s Al Shaqab Racing.
Her fee also broke the all-time record for a horse sold at European auction. Mandore International’s Nicolas de Watrigant said the filly will be trained in France by Andre Fabre.
He said: "She is a magnificent specimen. We bought her sister last year and we think she could be special.
"We didn’t want to miss this one - let’s hope she is the next Treve.
"We didn’t expect to pay that sort of price, but Al Shaqab Racing is keen to invest.
That’s approx $8.37 million USD!
Wow!!
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See here for explanation. (The problem is also global.) :yes:[/QUOTE]
Sarcasm or else I’m missing the point. If folks aren’t impressed about an unproven filly being purchased for over $8M then you’re just jaded.
Least anyone forget that Royal Delta in Nov 2011 went for $8.5 million and that was at the end of her 3yr year - when she had already won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff/Ladies Classic! Very, very much proven talent already at that point.
Sarcasm . . . conflictedness . . . thinking about the lives of those who will attend to the filly and dispose of her manure.
Can anyone tell me why sales in the UK are all conducted using guineas as the currency? It’s a dead unit otherwise.
I understand not changing the names of the races - tradition and all that, plus calling the classic “The 2000 Pounds Sterling” or “The 2000 Euros” is just wrong.
But why is it still used for sales?
Well, it makes more sense to me than $15 million for a show jumper, who (to make matters worse) is a gelding…at least these will ideally race for big purses and they’re still bloodstock.
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Can anyone tell me why sales in the UK are all conducted using guineas as the currency? It’s a dead unit otherwise.[/QUOTE]
Answer: tradition, exclusively 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattersalls
Today Tattersalls claims to be the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year. The horses are still priced in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), which is possibly the only modern usage of this once common British monetary unit.
