Boom market for broodmares at Harrisburg
November 15, 2006,by Dean A. Hoffman
Each fall the yearling section of the big Standardbred Horse Sale Co. auction in Harrisburg gets the lion’s share of the attention, but it would be foolish to overlook the fact that three special broodmares brought a total of $1.5 million in the mixed portion of the sale.
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Windylane Hanover, the 2002 Hambletonian Oaks champion, sold for $600,000.
Heading that was the $600,000 paid for Windylane Hanover, the 2002 Hambletonian Oaks champion. A winner of more than $1.1 million on the track, Windylane Hanover was the headliner in the Yankeeland Farm dispersal at Harrisburg.
Her price made her among the highest-priced broodmares ever sold at auction. The record price for a Standardbred broodmare was the $800,000 paid for Winky’s Gill in 1986. She had been a champion filly during her days on the track, and her first foal was the successful stakes colt and sire Supergill 3, 1:53.3 ($664,194).
She was purchased out of the dispersal of mares owned by Ulf Moberg of Sweden. Winky’s Gill was purchased by Castleton Farm in partnership with Hanley Dawson of Chicago.
In 1998 the Hambletonian winner, Continentalvictory, passed through the ring at Harrisburg, in foal to the 1997 Horse of the Year, Malabar Man, and sold for $760,000, to European interests.
The previous year, Act of Grace, a rival of Continentalvictory on the track, sold in foal to Pine Chip for $675,000. The colt she was carrying, Cobol, later won the World Trotting Derby at Du Quoin.
Windylane Hanover, in foal to Andover Hall, was sold to John Duer of Kentucky, acting as agent for Odds On Racing, a partnership of owner Dana Parham and trainer Robin Schadt.
“Odds On has always maintained a racing stable, but they’ve been buying some pacing fillies and breeding them in recent years,” Duer, a trainer based in Kentucky, said. “It’s their intention to sell the colts they breed and keep the fillies to train.”
Moira Gunn purchased Kikikatie, a 5-year-old daughter of Real Artist who was heavy in foal to Rocknroll Hanover. She had banked more than $1.2 million in her time on the track, and notched a 1:50.3 mark as a sophomore. Kikikatie was part of the reduction sale of Linda and Lee Devisser.