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 Fusaichi Pegasus, with an auction price of $4 million, remains the only Derby winner to sell at auction for over $1 million |
While most people would pay any price to get a Kentucky Derby winner, the truth is the less you pay the better chance you have of buying a Derby winner at auction. There have only been four Kentucky Derby winners to sell at auction for $500,000 or more: Fusaichi Pegasus ($4,000,000), Winning Colors ($575,000), Alysheba ($500,000) and Justify ($500,000). Despite the inflated auction prices of horses in the last 30+ years, most of the Derby winners sold since 1980 were bought for less than $50,000!
Below is a list of the Kentucky Derby winners since 1960 who sold at auction with their prices. Horses who never sold at auction are not included. In the cases where a horse went to auction more than once, the highest price realized is used. Also included is a list of the highest priced auction purchases who ran in the Kentucky Derby and where they finished.
| Derby Winner Auction Prices
2023 Mage $290,000 2021 Medina Spirit $35,000 2020 Authentic $350,000 2018 Justify $500,000 2017 Always Dreaming $350,000 2016 Nyquist $400,000 2015 American Pharoah $300,000 2012 I'll Have Another $35,000 2011 Animal Kingdom $100,000 2009 Mine That Bird $9,500 2008 Big Brown $190,000 2003 Funny Cide $22,000 2002 War Emblem $20,000 2001 Monarchos $170,000 2000 Fusaichi Pegasus $4,000,000 1998 Real Quiet $17,000 1997 Silver Charm $100,000 1994 Go for Gin $150,000 1992 Lil E. Tee $25,000 1990 Unbridled $70,000 1989 Sunday Silence $32,000 1988 Winning Colors $575,000 1987 Alysheba $500,000 1980 Genuine Risk $32,000 1979 Spectacular Bid $37,000 1977 Seattle Slew $17,500 1976 Bold Forbes $15,200 1975 Foolish Pleasure $20,000 1971 Canonero II $1,200 1970 Dust Commander $6,500 1969 Majestic Prince $250,000 1966 Kauai King $42,000 1960 Venetian Way $10,500 | Top Auction Price Derby Runners
2000 Fusaichi Pegasus $4,000,000 - 1st 2009 Dunkirk $3,700,000 - 11th 2018 Mendelssohn $3,000,000 - 20th 1989 Houston $2,900,000 - 8th 2009 Desert Party $2,100,000 - 14th 2001 Talk Is Money $1,800,000 - 17th 2022 Taiba $1,700,000 - 12th 2015 Carpe Diem $1,600,000 - 10th 2007 Cowtown Cat $1,500,000 - 20th 2000 Exchange Rate $1,400,000 - 12th 2004 Lion Heart $1,400,000 - 2nd 1996 Unbridled's Song $1,400,000 - 5th 2023 Tapit Trice $1,300,000 - 7th 2006 A.P. Warrior $1,300,000 - 18th 2001 Millennium Wind $1,200,000 - 11th 2017 Tapwrit $1,200,000 - 6th 2005 Noble Causeway $1,150,000 - 14th 2007 Any Given Saturday $1,100,000 - 8th 2000 High Yield $1,050,000 - 15th 2018 Instilled Regard $1,050,000 - 4th 1983 Chumming $1,000,000 - 12th 2001 Songandaprayer $1,000,000 - 13th 2020 Money Moves $975,000 - 13th 2020 Honor A.P. $850,000 - 4th 2023 Kingsbarns $800,000 - 14th 1987 Capote $800,000 - DNF 2023 Verifying $775,000 - 16th 2023 Reincarnate $775,000 - 13th 2006 Point Determined $750,000 - 9th 2021 Dynamic One $725,000 - 18th 2006 Jazil $725,000 - DH for 4th 2007 Zanjero $700,000 - 12th 2009 Flying Private $700,000 - 19th 2009 Regal Ransom $675,000 - 8th 2021 Rock Your World $650,000 - 17th 2016 Mor Spirit $650,000 - 10th 2018 Bolt d'Oro $630,000 - 12th 1985 Tank's Prospect $625,000 - 7th 2004 Tapit $625,000 - 9th 1992 Thyer $600,000 - 13th 2005 Going Wild $600,000 - 18th 1988 Winning Colors $575,000 - 1st 1999 Desert Hero $575,000 - 13th 2000 Commendable $575,000 - 17th |
So let's apply this to 2024's Kentucky Derby contenders (this page has links to profiles for each horse with his auction price listed). The bargain horses who sold for less than $100,000 this year are: Common Defense ($9,000), Honor Marie ($40,000), No More Time ($40,000), Society Man ($85,000), and West Saratoga ($11,000). The ones likely eliminated, or at least having a jinx against them, for selling over $500,000 are Catching Freedom ($575,000), Deterministic ($625,000), Forever Young ($720,603), and Sierra Leone ($2,300,000). There are several in the $200,000 to just under $500,000 range though and several who have never sold at auction.
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