Playful Act

Playful Act
Sire Sadler's Wells
Grandsire Northern Dancer
Dam Magnificient Style
Damsire Silver Hawk
Sex Mare
Foaled 2002
Country Ireland
Colour Bay
Breeder Swettenham Stud
Owner 1) Sangster Family
2) Sheikh Mohammed
Trainer John Gosden
Record 6: 4–2–0
Earnings US$487,191 (Equivalent)
Major wins
Fillies' Mile (2004)
May Hill Stakes (2004)
Lancashire Oaks (2005)
Awards
British Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (2004)

Playful Act (foaled April 12, 2002 in Ireland) is a Thoroughbred racehorse and the world's most expensive broodmare. Owned and bred by prominent British owner/breeder Robert Sangster, she was sired by the Champion Sire Sadler's Wells, she was out of the mare Magnificient Style, a granddaughter of the 1972 Epsom Derby winner, Roberto.

A success in racing at age two, Playful Act had notable wins in the 2004 Fillies' Mile and May Hill Stakes and was voted the British Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 2004. She raced at age three with her best result a win in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks and a second-place finish to Shawanda in the Irish Oaks.

Retired to broodmare duty, Playful Act was put up for sale in November 2007 and was purchased by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud operation at the Keeneland breeding stock sale for a world record price of US$10.5 million.[1]

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