The high-class Green Sense topped the Goffs London Sale in Kensington Palace Gardens June 15 at £700,000 (US$938,770, £1=US$1.34). The filly initially went unsold at £675,000, but a private deal was struck at the sales-topping price soon after.
The group 2-winning 2-year-old, who was offered by Joseph O'Brien's Carriganog Racing, was signed for by Brittany Linton, chief executive of U.S. outfit Boyd Racing.
"We're very excited about her and looking forward to her running in the Jersey Stakes on Saturday," said owner Randy Boyd, who credited David Redvers with helping bring the transaction together. "After that she'll probably come back to the U.S. and run in Saratoga and be a turf horse there. We have a trainer in mind, but I'd better wait to tell him first!
"Boyd Racing's strategy is to buy fillies who will go on to have great, successful careers and then be broodmares. Right now we have eight fillies and two colts. Most of them are up in Saratoga, and we have two older mares with Bob Baffert, Seismic Beauty and Splendora, who won the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint last year. We also bought Vahva at Keeneland in November, and she was just bred to Not This Time."
He added: "We want to keep it small and have high-quality horses. We don't expect to be the biggest, but we want to be the best."
Green Sense has won two of her seven starts for O'Brien and previous owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede. Her biggest triumph came when landing last year's Prix Robert Papin (G2) at Chantilly.
That effort came on her fourth juvenile start, and her next outing saw her add group 1 form to her record when finishing third to Power Blue in the Phoenix Stakes (G1). The pair were separated by subsequent One Thousand Guineas (G1) heroine True Love. Green Sense was last seen finishing sixth in the Prix de Sandringham (G2).
The 3-year-old has been to the sales on one previous occasion when bringing €90,000 from Highflyer Bloodstock's Anthony Bromley during the 2024 edition of the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale.
She is the eighth foal out of the Street Sense mare Big Boned. This makes her a sibling to four winners, including K Club, who struck in a Hamburg group 3, and Back To Brussels, who reached the podium in three listed contests.
She was not the only horse that the Munir-Souede team sold on Monday, as they also saw 6-length Pontefract maiden winner Green Sovereign bring £200,000 from Richard Ryan, agent for Teme Valley Racing.
The son of Lope Y Fernandez, who is due to take up an engagement in Wednesday's Windsor Castle Stakes, was picked up for £40,000 at last year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. Green Sovereign was sold through Harry Eustace's Highfield Stables.
"We're thrilled with the sale," Bromley said. "They're both scopey horses, Green Sovereign and Green Sense, and we felt there was still plenty of racing ahead of them. They had to make their money, and they have; I'm thrilled with the results."
Several of the offerings failed to meet their reserves, including the Greenham Stakes (G3) winner Alparslan, who was a vendor buyback at £1 million.
All told, 11 of 19 offered lots found a buyer for a clearance rate of 57%. Turnover hit £2,970,000 (US$3,983,067), which was down 63% compared to 12 months ago. The average price was £270,000 (US$362,097), down 33%, and the median of £250,000 (US$335,275) was down 17%.
