Broodmares commanded top dollar during the auctions of the past few days while stallion prospects didn’t fare so well.

Coolmore and Darley were at it again Green Monkey style, this time over 5yo mare Playful Act. Darley won this round spending $10.5 million [DRF].

As it turns out, the Octave Drama I mentioned yesterday was also none other than Coolmore vs Darley. Coolmore “angrily” insisted that they had won the $4 million bid but the bid spotters didn’t spot them. Does that sort of thing ever happen at Christie’s or Sotheby’s?

Ferguson, representing Maktoum, signed the ticket for $4 millon after lively bidding that also involved Coolmore Stud and the Ran-Jan Stable of Bob Naify and Jan Vanderbos. But Coolmore’s team, including principal John Magnier and regular bidding representative Demi O’Byrne, angrily protested the sale, saying they had believed they had made the winning $4 million bid.

Read all about it here. [NTRA]