Colt bought online by Simon Chappell at Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale
A colt by Coolmore Australia shuttler American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) proved popular at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale on Thursday after Simon Chappell paid 400,000gns (approximately $755,000) for the colt using the auction houses new online platform to purchase the youngster.
Catalogued as Lot 51 and offered by Star Bloodstock, the colt was purchased as a yearling for US$170,000 by Byron Rogers and Newminster Pinhook at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale from the Denali Stud draft.
"He has always shown us a lot," said Rogers. "When we let them off in March and asked the draft to point their toes a little bit, he always went well.
"He is a very quick horse, he breezed as we expected he would."
The colt is out of American Listed winner Harlan’s Honor (Harlan’s Holiday), who was purchased by Bridlewood Farm for US$300,000 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in 2016. Harlan’s Honor, who is the dam of one winner to date in the dual Listed placed filly Son River (Liam’s Map), herself is a half-sister to Listed winner March X Press (Shanghai Bobby) who Newgate Farm paid US$330,000 for at last year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.
Further afield this is the same family as Secret Rhapsody (Secreto).
American Pharoah will have his first runners in Australia next season and he will stand at Jerry’s Plains in the Hunter Valley for a fee of $55,000 (inc GST) in 2020.
