Zangersheide public sale high lot is €1,000,000 teen Codex Diaz Z

The highest lot on the latest Zangersheide High quality Jumpers powered by MBA public sale was a younger stallion who fetched a whopping  €1m (£834,000).

On Thursday night (19 September) in Belgium, an intense bidding struggle broke out for seven-year-old Codex Diaz Z (Codex One Z x Cornet Obolensky), leading to his seven-figure price ticket. The teen was bought to a purchaser from Germany.

This debut public sale was a collaboration between Judy Ann Melchior, Jens Baackmann and Christian Ahlmann, and held as a part of the FEI WBFSH Leaping World Breeding Championship for Younger Horses at Zangersheide in Belgium.

Auctioneer Frederik de Backer offered the gathering of 26 heaps, starting from three-year-old potential showjumpers to nine-year-old confirmed performers with the hanging Codex Diaz Z proving the spotlight because the permitted stallion son of the Aachen grand prix winner’s value soared to the €1m mark.

Public sale high lot Codex Diaz Z ((Codex One Z x Cornet Obolensky).

Altering fingers for €900,000 was seven-year-old stallion Ay Caramba Z (Aganix Du Seigneur Z x Crowntano Z), who was additionally bought to Germany, whereas the third costliest horse of the night was six-year-old gelding Barack Z (Balounito x Arpeggio), for whom the hammer fell at €365,000 to a purchaser from the US.

A British bidder secured six-year-old permitted stallion Dolomite Z (Diamant De Semilly x Caretano Z) for €310,000 and the hammer fell at €295,000 for eight-year-old Hazard Z (Dominator 2000 Z x Calvados Z) to a Chinese language purchaser.

Among the many three-year-olds to go below the hammer, the mare Annan Z, a daughter of Aganix Du Seigneur Z and Canturo, and a full sister to Ludger Beerbaum’s permitted stallion Aberdeen Z, bought to the US for €240,000. The chestnut stallion Chacnan Van Het Weidehof Z (Chacco Blue x Kannan) bought for €110,000 to new German house owners whereas Denzel The One Z, a son of Diablue PS and Ogano Sitte, modified fingers for €98,000 discovering a brand new house in the US.

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