Widden Stud’s exceptional stallion Zoustar was the star on Day 1 of the Easter Yearling Sale, providing the top two lots and four of the top six on a day where blue chip fillies rose to the fore.
Hugely desirable filly Autumn Ballet, Stakes winners including A Very Fine Red and De Sonic Boom as well as the dam of Saturday’s G1 Sistema Stakes winner Velocious are among a surge of recent high quality entries for The Chairman’s Sale.
Outstanding 3YO Celestial Legend gave owner Bon Ho another G1 win and exciting 2YO Switzerland kept his unbeaten record intact and confirmed himself a serious Golden Slipper contender as Inglis graduates flexed their muscle on a big day of autumn racing.
They say timing is everything in this industry and Glenlogan Park’s Steve Morley’s certainly wasn’t complaining when his half sister to Saturday’s $2m Inglis Millennium winner Fully Lit topped the final day of the Classic Yearling Sale.
3YO gelding Kosgei (The Autumn Sun) set a new Australasian record for a colt/gelding in a Digital Sale when realising $750,000 to the bid of Mr Daniel Yeung/Magus Equine in today’s Inglis Digital December Online Sale.