Foal Session of the JRHA Select Sale Off to a Flyer

Mark Smith - Tuesday Jul 11

 The foal session of the JRHA Select Sale was off to an explosive start when the opening lot blew past the top-priced yearlings of the previous day.

The Northern Farm consigned Kitasan Black colt from the Monsun mare Fadillah (GB) went the way of Interhose for ¥380 million (A$4,000,000).

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A winner at Haydock and Nottingham for William Haggas, Fadillah is a sister to Soberania (GER), who was runner-up in the Group 1 German Oaks and a half-sister to the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern winner Seismos (Dalakhani and Group III winner Samba Brazil (Teofilo).

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