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Posted: 9/12/2005 2:54:00 PM ET
| Lewis purchases Mr. Greeley filly for $2.7-million | |
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Minutes after a horse they owned sold for $3.5-million, Bob and Beverly Lewis went to $2.7-million to purchase a Mr. Greeley filly who is a full sister to Grade 1 winner and sire El Corredor and half sister to Grade 1 winner Roman Ruler... "She just had an outstanding conformation," Lewis said. "It’s nice to be able to buy into such a great pedigree. We were expecting to spend a lot, but $2.7-million sort of caught us by surprise. You want to do the right thing, though. Maybe she’ll make that look like a bargain." John G. Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent for Liberation Farm and Needham-Betz Thoroughbreds, consigned the dark bay or brown filly who is out of the unraced Silver Deputy mare Silvery Swan. She attracted a wide variety of bidders before the hammer fell on Lewis’s final bid of $2.7-million. |