Funny Moon Fetches $2.3 Million

Grade I winner Funny Moon, who is in foal to Indian Charlie and carrying her first offspring, shot into the price lead at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select mixed sale around 7 p.m. (EST) Nov. 6, bringing $2.3 million.


Not long before she was sold, grade I-winning racing or broodmare prospect Dubawi Heights commanded $1.6 million and was purchased by Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm of Japan from Noel Murphy’s Castle Park Farm, agent.


Prior to those horses went through the auction ring, stakes winner Bonnie Blue Flag (in foal to Medaglia d’Oro) had been the auction’s most expensive lot at $1.5 million.

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