IN January Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm paid $925,000 for the five-year-old Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux) mare Regal Glory from the dispersal sale in Keeneland of the late Paul Pompa. A stakes winner at two, a Grade 2 winner at three, she was also a graded stakes winner at four.

Possessing a good pedigree as a full-sister to the Japanese Group 3 winner Café Pharoah (American Pharoah) and half-sister to the Grade 3 winner Night Prowler (Giant’s Causeway), Regal Glory was one of a trio of stakes winning offspring from Mary’s Follies (More Than Ready), herself a Grade 2 winner. With a price tag of $925,000, she seemed to have been very well sold.