{"id":11809,"date":"2018-07-09T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2018-07-09T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:32:56","slug":"expensive-thoroughbred-ever-sold-auction-green-monkey-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/expensive-thoroughbred-ever-sold-auction-green-monkey-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Expensive Thoroughbred Ever Sold at Auction &#8211; The Green Monkey &#8211; Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11810\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Green-Monkey-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>The world&#8217;s most expensive thoroughbred ever to sell at public auction has passed away. The Green Monkey succumbed to laminitis at his retirement home in Florida. He was fourteen.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Monkey brought $16m when sold to Coolmore in 2006 at the Fasig-Tipton Calder Select\u00a0Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale. The colt was consigned by Hartley\/De Renzo Thoroughbreds. By Forestry out of the Unbridled mare Magical Masquerade, it was a red letter day for Hartley\/De Renzo, as they had previously given $425,000 for The Green Monkey as a yearling at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Sale.<\/p>\n<p>In the under tack breezes at the Calder sale, The Green Monkey grabbed everyone&#8217;s attention with an unprecedented eighth of a mile in a stunning 9 and 4\/5 seconds. As the bidding began, Fasig-Tipton auctioneer Walt Robertson said &#8220;I doubt if anyone has ever seen a better one-eighth performed by a two-year-old in training.&#8221;\u00a0 The bidding whittled down to a duel between Demi O&#8217;Byrne acting for Coolmore, and John Ferguson, acting for Sheikh Mohammed. The hammer came down at $16m in favor of Coolmore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;d better be good,&#8221; O&#8217;Byrne told reporters. &#8220;Time will tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Time did indeed tell. The $16m acquisition did not turn out to be worth the money. The Green Monkey did not race as a two year old due to physical problems, and as a three year old he made just three appearances on the racetrack for trainer Todd Pletcher, without breaking his maiden. He went to stud with a bankroll of just $10,440.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Monkey stud for a fee of $5,000 at Hartley\/De Renzo&#8217;s operation in Florida. The sire of four black-type winners, his best offspring was Monkey Business, who took the 2015 fillies Triple Crown in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>RIP The Green Monkey.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-11810\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Green-Monkey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The world&#8217;s most expensive thoroughbred ever to sell at public auction has passed away. The Green Monkey succumbed to laminitis at his retirement home in Florida. He was fourteen.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Monkey brought $16m when sold to Coolmore in 2006 at the Fasig-Tipton Calder Select\u00a0Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale. The colt was consigned by Hartley\/De Renzo Thoroughbreds. By Forestry out of the Unbridled mare Magical Masquerade, it was a red letter day for Hartley\/De Renzo, as they had previously given $425,000 for The Green Monkey as a yearling at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}