For a horse be it in the auction or during the season?

I very often pay between £1m and £1.5m for unraced 2yo's but rarely seen £2m horses go under the hammer....however couple of seasons ago i got pushed up to £3.2m to capture a five time winning 2yo game horse who had solid Gp1 winning form...

First season for me was largely disappointing winning only a poor Gp3 event...however this season he's started off with a Gp2 victory so im hopeful of a better set of results now hes into his 4yo year

3.4 million for a gamebred 4yo winner of 22 g1s

Great beast that with those stats

Too much.

won me over 30 million in prizemoney
and produced many g1 winners he paid for himself 100 times over

I don't mean you've paid too much I mean Ive spent too much on horses that would struggle to win a midwinter claiming race on the poly let alone justify their price.

It's not what I spent but someone bought my 2yo for 3 million after she won her maiden and then the champagne stakes

sorry mate misunderstood

It's alright I thought maybe as I posted it might be easily misunderstood. I still go to the 2yo auction every year and buy 2 or 3 expensive ones. The best I've had is a dewhurst winner and a multiple group 1 winning filly miler.

i only buy 2yo when i am starting over
they are pretty average mostly

When buying at the 2yo auction i tend to look more at the breeding than the purchase prices and will not by anything that states Avg Best Dist more than 1m6f....i tend to only purchase out of a group1 winner too leaving all the others alone.

To be honest though i rarely get decent gamebred 2yos at the auctions although in past two seasons ive picked up some group winners even a 2000/1000gns winner and an Oaks Filly.

I never buy at the 2 y/o auction, total waste of time in my eyes.

I just breed lots of horses and monitor the weekly auctions as this is where the real talent is.