Legarto is likely to head to Yulong\u2019s newly purchased stud farm in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales to be covered by its first-season stallion Devil Night in the spring.<\/p>\n
Two other high-profile mares also formerly trained in Matamata fetched big prices on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Former NZ 1000 Guineas winner Captured By Love sold for A$1.5m while her stablemate Quintessa, who won the first Group 1 of the New Zealand season at Ellerslie last September, sold for A$800,000.<\/p>\n
Both were originally bought, syndicated and raced in New Zealand by Te Akau, which earlier in the sale sold My Lips Are Sealed for A$180,000, that mare being purchased by New Zealand stud farm Rich Hill.<\/p>\n
That means those four mares alone accounted for more than $6m in sales on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great price and it was hard to know what she was going to fetch,\u201d said Legarto\u2019s former trainer Ken Kelso, who watched her sale online.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is going to a great home and the exchange rate makes the price even sweeter.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has been a wonderful mare to us and it was very special to train her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legarto is likely to head to Yulong\u2019s newly purchased stud farm in the Hunter Valley in New South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87913,63973,227489,806,1975,68065,11586,4190,227488,4241,51584,78,194,227487,60629,1132,111,43,139,69,69656,7798,1133,3235,49519,14578,80],"class_list":["post-445959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-87913","tag-34m","tag-a28","tag-as","tag-at","tag-bloodstock","tag-coast","tag-demand","tag-fetches","tag-gold","tag-hot","tag-in","tag-kiwi","tag-legarto","tag-mare","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queens","tag-race","tag-sale","tag-sold","tag-superstar","tag-tuesday","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}