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2009 Great Southern Sale Concludes

21st May 2009

The 2009 Melbourne Great Southern Sale has come to a conclusion, with today's $1m-plus trade taking the sale total to almost $5million over the past four days.

The consistent theme was the strong competition across the entire sale and that continued today, with 183 horses selling for $1,106,300.

Combined with the $2,127,100 traded during the two day weanling session and yesterday's Bloodstock opening, the sale total for this years Great Southern Sale came to $4.923million.

This compares favourably to the $5.9million traded last year, where there were an additional 350 horses catalogued.

Today's session was highlighted by two mares from Denise's Joy's granddaughter Miss Minden, who were both offered by Fulmen Park, as agent for Oamaru Stud.

Advance To Go (Red Ransom) topped the session when selling to Optimum Thoroughbreds for $150,000, making her the highest priced mare of the sale.

Five lots later, Hancock Quality Bloodstock gave $85,000 for Tizzy May (Danzero).

Miss Minden is also the dam of G1 winner Miss Danehill, stakes winner Point Made and the nine times G1 placed multiple G2 winner Pentastic.

"The clearance rate has been consistently high right throughout the sale. We had a good spread of buyers from right around Australia and there was strong competition on the better lots," Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.

"In light of the fact we had considerably fewer horses catalogued this year, the market has held up extremely well."

Horses passed in over the past four days are still available for sale via the Make an Offer service.

The next Inglis Sale will be held in Sydney on June 25 and 26, with the Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale, which is now online.

An outstanding catalogue has already been assembled and Supplementary Entries will be taken up until Friday June 19.

Statistics (Day 4)

Catalogued: 256

Withdrawn: 49

Sold: 183 (88%)

Passed In: 24 (12%)

Gross: $1,106,300

Average: $6,045

Median: $2,250

Top Price: (Lot 708) $150,000