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The quality of Japanese horses is very good, and that is why people from other countries are coming. We have to keep it up and give everybody a chance to dream with a good horse. Yoshida reported there were 22 separate sales of yearlings and foals to international buyers during the sale, another JRHA record.
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The average price for the two sessions increased by 7. Australian buyers also stepped into the foal market, led by trainer Gai Waterhouse and her clients, who together bought five foals to join their single yearling acquisition. Both WinStar and the Waterhouse group said they are considering exploring the possibilities of acquiring a racing license for the lucrative Japan Racing Association circuit, which offers the highest prize money in the world.
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Waterhouse, who said she was encouraged by her husband, Robbie Waterhouse, to come to the JRHA sale and seek horses with stamina-laden pedigrees that could be aimed at races like the Melbourne Cup, also voiced an interest in possibly racing in Japan, although plans for her new acquisitions have not been completed. While the international buyers were active, they did not compete at the top of the JRHA market for foals, which are highly prized by major Japanese owners.
He described his budget as almost unlimited in this case. The first colt to bring big yen in the sale ring during the foal session was hip , a stylish bay Deep Impact colt who is the first foal of GI Spinaway S.
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I thought the price would be higher, so this was a reasonable purchase. In the second session, Satomi bought six foals, including three other sons of Deep Impact.
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Although not energetic during the opening session for yearlings the previous day, Shimakawa clearly was saving his money for foals. He bid enthusiastically in the second session, even going for a colt he had not seen and pursuing another after his daughter suggested that he stop bidding; he ultimately succeeded in buying both colts, and they proved to be two of the highest-priced lots of the day. Shimakawa said after buying hip , a son of King Kamehameha out of a full-sister to champion To the Victory Jpn Sunday Silence , that he ignored pleas from his daughter to drop out of the bidding.
A male horse is born as a Colt. When he's three years old he's called a Stallion even though he may be able to breed much sooner. If he is. A colt is a male horse, usually below the age of four years. Description[edit]. The term "colt" only A young female horse is called a filly, and a mare once she is an adult animal. In horse racing, particularly A three-year-old colt at a racetrack .
I just looked at his pedigree and saw that he had a nice female line. So, I asked my farm manager [Seiichi Tanabe] if he had seen the colt and if he had liked him, and he said yes.
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So I decided to buy him. When I saw the colt for the first time after the purchase, I thought that I had bought a very nice horse. The Deep Impact colt out of Belle Watling was just one of many standouts for his sire. While WinStar made history during the opening session by becoming the first American stable to buy at the JRHA sale, Irish-based Mick Flanagan of Townley Hall Bloodstock made a bit of history of his own in the second session when he bought a Deep Impact filly for an American-based partnership.
She thus apparently is the first by the sire to be purchased at the sale on behalf of American owners. Flanagan said he inspected all 19 of the foals by Deep Impact included in the JRHA catalogue and noted how, in general, they have a similar body type. In the wild, colts are driven from their herds by the herd stallion somewhere between the age of one and two. This may be, in part, an instinct to prevent inbreeding.
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When driven out, they usually join with other young stallions in a bachelor herd. They stay with this band until they are mature enough to form their own herd of mares.
The terms "rag" or "rake" have been historically used to refer to a group of colts, but they have fallen out of modern usage. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other things called "colt", see Colt. Colts of different ages.
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