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Coolmore Stud is near Jerrys Plains in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales is a 3,340 ha farm that has approximately 1,000 horses, including 600 mares that produce about 300 foals there during the spring. Thirteen international quality stallions stand here each spring.
At the Fasig-Tipton Florida auction in February 2006, the Stud paid a world record $16 million for a Florida-bred two-year-old colt in training. Named The Green Monkey, he was sired by Forestry who in turn was sired by Storm Cat, the longtime leading sire in North America. The Green Monkey never won a race.
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