Houghton Sales: Major stakes the name of the game; Big spending has been the US pattern this year.(Sports)

From: The Racing Post (London, England) | Date: September 21, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

FIGURES often make startling comparisons. Take the 1999 Tattersalls Houghton Sale aggregate of 34,665,000gns. At the current exchange rate of about $1.43 to the pounds , that amounts to $52 million-less than the reported valuation of 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus as a stallion prospect. We're talking here about the most elite sale in Europe, the most concentrated source of high-class pedigrees and individuals on offer.

There have been very few negative pointers this year in the US yearling market to events in the sale-rings of Europe this autumn. At Keeneland in ...

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