Sale Overview

Trainers from all parts of Australia descended on the Hunter Valley in May and many returned to their stables with a new addition as 84% of lots offered at the 2014 Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale were sold.

Local buyers were very busy at White Park, but they had plenty of competition with yearlings sold to various regions of New South Wales plus the ACT, Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia. Yearlings were also purchased by buyers for export to China and Hong Kong.

The sale also saw the debut of Australia's first female thoroughbred auctioneer, Stephanie Grentell.

165 yearlings were sold at the auction for $1,801,850. The average price recorded was $10,920.

Darby Bloodstock snapped up Group 2 winning juvenile Time For War from the 2013 Scone Yearling Sale and they were back in 2014 purchasing the top priced lot. Offered by Yarraman Park Stud as Lot 185 the colt by I Am Invincible from Flickering Fire was sold for $82,500.

Paul Perry was the leading buyer for the second straight year. Perry purchased four yearlings for $108,000 including Lot 39 Sebring x Off The Canvas colt from Glastonbury Farms for $52,500, the third highest priced lot at the sale.

Another yearling by Sebring sold for $56,000 to Victorian trainer Peter Morgan. The colt from Fast Leaner was offered as Lot 179 by Widden Stud.

Hinchinbrook colts from Gostego (Lot 196) and Is Amazing (Lot 208) sold very well towards the end of the session selling for $52,500 and $42,000 to John Foote HONG KONG and McEvoy Mitchell Racing SA respectively.

Manford Downs sold the top priced filly at the auction as Pedrille Thoroughbreds went to $41,000 to secure Lot 92 by I Am Invincible from Toldyas.

Five yearlings were purchased by Mr X Yang for export to China for $44,000.

Sebring led the sires by average with his three progeny averaging $47,500 through the ring. I Am Invincible continued his great year on the track and in the sale ring with eight of his yearlings selling at an average of $38,688 at the Scone Yearling Sale.