Tag: John Magnier
The growth of Coolmore Stud
on Mar.04, 2009, under Gambling
In February 2006, at Calder in Florida, Irish vet Demi O’Byrne, bidding for a syndicate from Coolmore Stud, paid $16.1 million for a two-year-old colt by Forestry, shattering the record price for a thoroughbred set more than 20 years earlier. The colt, who was never to win a race, was named The Green Monkey and, as with Seattle Dancer, who set the previous benchmark of $13.1 million, the Maktoum family of Dubai were underbidders to John Magnier’s team. Not much had changed, it seemed, during the intervening period.
Coolmore Stud – the growth of an empire
on Mar.02, 2009, under Gambling
In February 2006, at Calder in Florida, Irish vet Demi O’Byrne, bidding for a syndicate from Coolmore Stud, paid $16.1 million for a two-year-old colt by Forestry, shattering the record price for a thoroughbred set more than 20 years earlier. The colt, who was never to win a race, was named The Green Monkey and, as with Seattle Dancer, who set the previous benchmark of $13.1 million, the Maktoum family of Dubai were underbidders to John Magnier’s team. Not much had changed, it seemed, during the intervening period.