Last Sunday, 14 horses were sold on Sunday at the 53rd Pride of Poland auction in Janów Podlaski, with the highest bid worth €400,000 for “Esmeraldia”, a mare from the Michałów stud.

“A €1,596,000 is a sum of money that exceeded our expectations,” Andrzej Wójtowicz, a spokesman of the director for horse breeding of the National Agriculture Support Centre (KOWR) told the press. 

“Our estimates were at €1-1.2 million, but what we have is EUR 1.6 million. It is a sum of money that satisfies us entirely,” – he added. 

20 different Arabian purebreds were on auction this year. Esmeraldia was sold for the highest amount of €400,000 to a Frenchman.

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The second-highest sale was for a seven-year-old chestnut mare Poganinka and 11-year-old white mare “Euzona” which amounted to  €220,000 each. TVP World reports that a white seven-year-old mare named Atakama was sold for €175,000.

Last year, the Pride of Poland auction saw 14 horses sold for about €1.6 million, with two stallions from Michałów, “Equator”, and “Emandorissa”. Each of them was sold for €450,000. 

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Author: Sébastien Meuwissen