Big Brown Colt Soars to $1.3 Million on Coolmore Bid

A colt from the first crop of dual Classic winner Big Brown (Boundary) became the highest-priced horse to sell at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale Monday when Coolmore's Demi O'Byrne purchased the stylish Pennsylvania-bred for $1.3 million. Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables consigned the Feb. 24-foaled colt, whose dam Cool Ghoul (Silver Ghost) is a half to GII Remsen S. winner Comeonmom (Jolie's Halo). Cool Ghoul has produced two New York-bred stakes horses: MSW Dagnabit (Freud) and SP Bad Boy Rising (Freud). IEAH Stables, who campaigned Big Brown, purchased this colt for $220,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. He breezed an eighth in :10.1.