At the 52nd Pride of Poland auction in Janow Podlaski, 14 horses were sold for the total amount of 1 598 000 euro. The highest prices at the auction – 450 000 euro each – were achieved by two horses from the Michalow stud: the bay stallion Equator and the gray mare Emandorissa. 16 Arabian horses were put up for this year’s Pride of Poland auction.
“I am happy with this result because I was afraid of the auction. It was reading tea leaves. EUR 1.6 million is a very good result, i.e. over PLN 7 million. The Michalow stud earned over a million euro today”, said Tomasz Chalimoniuk, president of the Polish Horse Racing Club – the main organizer of the event, after the auction, Polish News reports.
This year’s Pride of Poland auction includes 16 purebred Arabian horses – 13 mares and 3 stallions – mostly from the state studs in Janow Podlaski, Michalow and Bialka. The highest prices at the auction – 450 thousand each euro – two horses from Michalow Stud achieved: bay 11-year-old stallion Equator and gray 9-year-old mare Emandorissa. Equator was auctioned by a buyer from Saudi Arabia, and Emandorissa – from Qatar.
Two horses did not reach the minimum price set by the owners and were not sold.
This year, the auction was attended by a record number of buyers – about 50. The buyers came from 29 countries, incl. Belgium, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Switzerland, the Netherlands.
