LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Shadai Farm has paid the day’s top price of $540,000 for stakes-winning mare Secret Gypsy at Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale.
The 6-year-old daughter of Sea of Secrets out of the Rahy mare Miss Utada was consigned by Eaton Sales as a broodmare prospect.
She won eight races in her career — including the Grade II 2010 Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga, Grade III Endine Stakes at Delaware and the 2009 Grade II Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct — for earnings of $596,926.
Keeneland said in a statement that Naohiro Hosoda, who signed the sales ticket on Shadai’s behalf, said Secret Gypsy would be retired from racing and sent to Japan to be bred.
