I guess this colt sold for 105,000 euros, just under five times more than the next highest baby (27,000 euros). That's 150K! What'dya think?I love that the Halleluja chorus is played at the end of the bidding...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Totilas baby at auction
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talk about a marketable breeding - that's a LOT of money for a baby!!! What's his stud fee running? LOL! I'm sure it's WAY out of my price range!
ReplyDeleteI'd be breaking a sweat in that bidding war. I'm sure the winners certainly did!
ReplyDeleteWow! The dressage market is catching up to the racing world. Imagine spending that kind of money on a young foal like that...untested, untried and so hard to tell true potential. They say good horse evaluators can tell a lot in the foal's first few days, but after that, as it starts to grow, until it's around 2 years old, it's really difficult to judge.
ReplyDeleteThis little one is really well balanced and with that breeding..well, who's to question at this point?
Wow! I guess some people have money to burn. He is a beauty, but jeeez!
ReplyDeleteI can't help but comment on the way they do these auctions. The mare looks distressed and the baby has to be too - why can't they come up with a less stressful way to show mares and foals for sale and inspections?
ReplyDeleteI have a 28-year old German Hannoverian mare who now has two miniature donkeys she thinks are her babies - if I open the trailer door they donkeys hop in and poor Salina comes running, doing her most alarming trumpet whinny - all these years later she remembers what happens when you load up the babies.
Hmmm...I don't know...beautiful foal, of course, but if he wasn't a Totilas, what would he have gone for? IMHO, he would have gone for what he should have gone for. I just think spending that kind of money on a foal is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteEven in the racing world, you don't often see weanlings going for that much, and in racing, there's at least a chance the foal will one day earn over a million/command a 300k stud fee/produce several million dollar yearlings.
I don't know. I guess I feel a little bit like a Totilas heretic. I do admire him, but maybe not quite as much as some.
omg I would never spend that much on just bloodlines, the foal is still a baby! He could be a fluke and not rock out like his pappa, who by the way I dont even like. It looks like he is always piaffing...
ReplyDeleteI, too, never thought Totilas was "all that" so I agree w/ you guys. I'm sure the baby will be WELL-insured, so their financial risk is limited, but it still seems excessive.
ReplyDeleteBillie, that is the saddest thing! Between your story, and the video I saw recently with an old broodmare wanting to mother a giant stuffed pony, I feel like I've learned a lot about how much horsey mamas truly do love their offspring. Just another reason why nobody should overbreed - why put horses through emotional trauma when you don't have to?