Dam of Mukhadram Brings 750,000gns at Tatts

Magic Tree (UAE) (Timber Country) (lot 1728) last passed through a sales ring in 2005 when offered by Darley at DBS and sold for just ,2,800. With the Group 1 winner and new stallion Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal) and Group 3-placed Woodland Aria (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) to her credit since then, plus two subsequent Group 1-winning half-siblings in Mastery (GB) and Kirklees (Ire), the 12-year-old mare=s value has skyrocketed, and she was sold for 750,000gns yesterday. The sum could have been even greater still if she had managed to conceive when covered by Frankel earlier this year, but this fact did not dissuade Charlie Gordon-Watson from stepping in to buy her while standing alongside members of the Coolmore team.

“I’ve been following her for a while and have been to see her a few times at Andrew Wardall’s Alvediston Stud,@ he said. AI think she has all the right credentials to go to Galileo at some stage.”

Andrew Wardall, the breeder of Shadwell’s Mukhadram under his Wardall Bloodstock banner, has already been well rewarded by the mare. Mukhadram himself was sold as a foal for 190,000gns, while Woodland Aria fetched 70,000gns as a yearling and last year’s Sea The Stars (Ire) colt foal was sold to John Ferguson for 240,000gns.