{"id":133040,"date":"2021-09-22T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=133040"},"modified":"2021-09-23T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:00:59","slug":"insane-record-price-paid-for-champion-racehorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=133040","title":{"rendered":"Insane record price paid for champion racehorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/racing\/126468078\/champion-kiwi-racehorse-avantage-sells-for-41-million-in-record-online-auction-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"- This article originally appeared on stuff.co.nz and is reproduced with permission\"><em><strong>&#8211; This article originally appeared on stuff.co.nz and is reproduced with permission<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Champion New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"racehorse\">racehorse<\/a> Avantage sold for a whopping $3.96 million when purchased by global breeding giant Coolmore Stud in a record price for an online auction.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time group one-winning mare, trained by Jamie Richards at Matamata, was retired from racing earlier this month and put up for sale on New Zealand Bloodstock&#x27;s online platform Gavelhouse Plus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba-ben-simmons-76ers-tells-philadelphia-he-will-never-play-again-portland-houston-adrian-wojnarowski\/f4bc5709-f5a8-4571-aec3-adebbdcd5308\"><strong>Ben Simmons tells 76ers &#x27;he will never play another game for the franchise&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/canelo-alvarez-caleb-plant-face-off-ends-in-chaos-punches-thrown-cut-under-eye\/7873d82e-0ab0-439b-9986-c76aad18c919\"><strong>Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant brawl at pre-fight face-off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/the-mole-melbourne-storm-free-membership-loyal-fans-covid19\/2411c196-7443-4dd2-86c1-b41c11fe90b2\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Melbourne Storm reveals incredible gesture for loyal fans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a 15 minute bidding duel yesterday, Tom Magnier of Coolmore \u2013 the world&#x27;s largest breeding operation of thoroughbreds \u2013 placed the successful bid in a record for any horse sold online, NZ Racing Desk reported.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of top sire Fastnet Rock became the third highest-priced mare ever sold via auction in the southern hemisphere behind Milanova, who fetched $5 million in 2008, and the $4.2 million outlaid for Sunlight last year. All three were purchased by Coolmore.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ee238fcb-bfc2-4be3-8577-abc37a83a15c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ee238fcb-bfc2-4be3-8577-abc37a83a15c\" alt=\"Avantage has sold for a record price in an online auction.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another champion Richards-trained mare, Melody Belle, fetched $2.6 million at the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast in May.<\/p>\n<p>Purchased for $203,000 by David Ellis as a yearling at the Karaka sales, Avantage was prepared by Richards to win 16 of her 28 starts and $2.16 million in prizemoney.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by the Te Akau Avantage syndicate, the six-year-old&#x27;s racing career was brought to a sudden halt last Friday after suffering a tendon injury, when favourite for the group one Tarzino Trophy at Hastings.<\/p>\n<p>The last of Avantage&#x27;s nine group one wins was at Te Rapa in April, in the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders&#x27; Stakes (1600m).<\/p>\n<p>It was the mare&#x27;s fifth group one in the first four months of this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#8211; This article originally appeared on stuff.co.nz and is reproduced with permission Champion New Zealand racehorse Avantage sold for a whopping $3.96 million when purchased <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=133040\" title=\"Insane record price paid for champion racehorse\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133042,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133040\/revisions\/133042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}