Stud Record
Owner David Tsui sent Urban Sea to Ireland as a broodmare for his Sunderland Holdings where she became one of the world's most successful broodmares. Her 1997 filly, Melikah, was auctioned in 1998 for €1,500,000, the highest ever price paid for a yearling at the Deauville sales. Her 2002 filly, My Typhoon, set a then-record price for a filly foal of US$2,955,000 when sold in December at the Tattersalls Sale to Live Oak Stud of Ocala, Florida. When Urban Sea's 2006 foal Sea the Stars won the Epsom Derby in 2009, she became one of the few mares to have foals two Derby winners. Sea The Stars went on to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, making Urban Sea only the second Arc de Triomphe winning mare to foal a winner of that race (Detroit - dam of Carnegie is the other). Sea the Stars is considered by many to be one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
In 2009, she delivered a colt by Invicible Spirit, but died on 2 Mar 2009 as a complication of foaling.
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