Yoshida Family Buy Harbinger For Japan
Friday, 3 September 2010:  | | Harbinger |
The son of Dansili, who suffered a career-ending injury following his emphatic win in the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in June, has been sold to stand in Japan.
Owners Highclere Thoroughbred Racing revealed the deal to sell the four-year-old to the Shadai Group controlled by the Yoshida family.
The deal is reported to value Harbinger as the most expensive horse to go to stud in recent times.
The syndicate's director John Warren said a number of bids were received.
"There were a number of top stud farms from both home and abroad involved in the negotiations and there was a very strong bid to keep the horse in England," he said.
"Unfortunately for the British bloodstock industry the final bid from the famous Shadai Group, where Sunday Silence stood, was far too strong to be able to compete.
"The owners of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing's Admiral Rous syndicate grew extremely close to the horse.
"They would dearly have loved Harbinger to have retired to stud in the UK.
" However, he will be in excellent hands and we hope he is as big a success at stud for the Yoshida brothers as he was on the racecourse for us.
"It has been a privilege to have been involved with such a great horse."
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