Prices for young racehorses are declining at Europe's biggest auctions as the effects of the credit freeze spread into luxury markets.
Tattersalls, the world's oldest and biggest horse auctioneer, had a 4.5 percent drop in average yearling prices at a three-day auction that ended today at Newmarket, England. Goffs, Tattersalls' closest competitor and partly owned by the Aga Khan, said average prices fell 33 percent at last week's sale of the best yearlings in Ireland.
``I am not going to spend any more on racehorses until the situation on the market eases,'' Rod Lloyd, the ... More >
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