Europe’s Premier Yearling sale got underway on the 8th October, which saw the top priced yearling been won by Amo Racing. The FRANKEL filly from Newsells Park Stud was highley sort after and reached a huge 4,400,000 guineas, the second highest price for a yearling in European auction history, behind the 5,000,000 guineas sale of the filly subsequently named AL NAAMAH at this sale in 2013.
Amo racing agent, Alex Elliot said “Phew! Kia and partners wanted the filly very badly – a Frankel filly from that family and with that physical, she was always going to be a collectors’ item.”
“But she is part of Team Amo now… wow! She is a spectacular filly, it is a spectacular price, a spectacular bunch of horses here. I’d like to say I was a cool customer when all that was taking place, but that would be a fib – I have never been in that rarified atmosphere before.”
Trainer, Ralph Beckett will be training the Amo Racing 4,400,000 guineas filly after being asked by Kia Joorabchian at the sale, it was a decision that he did not have to think about and was delighted to be asked. Mr Beckett uses the Horse Weigh Curragh model.
