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Plan Your Pinhook Success

22nd Apr 2015

The Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale is the first opportunity for pinhookers to get their hands on weanlings to take through to the 2016 select yearling sales in Australasia.

Pinhookers from last year’s Inglis Weanling Sales achieved some tremendous results when selling their purchases in 2015, including Broadwater Farm, Scone, and Henley Park, New Zealand.

Mike and Kate Fleming’s Broadwater Farm recorded an outstanding result on a Choisir colt out of Rich Ransom that they purchased for $30,000 at the 2014 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale. Last month the colt was snapped up by the Hong Kong Jockey Club for $280,000 when offered as the last Lot (604) of the 2015 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

“We were looking for a good type to trade, by a proven sire, and that’s exactly what we found,” said Broadwater Farm’s Mike Fleming.

“I knew he was nice but didn’t expect such a great result, he just kept improving,” Fleming said.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club were also the yearling buyer of Lot 534 at the 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, a colt from the first crop of Master Of Design out of Sparkling Symphony. The HKJC paid $210,000 for the colt a great result for New Zealand's Henley Park who pinhooked the youngster for $52,000 at the 2014 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale.

“We loved Master Of Design as a racehorse and as a type, and when we saw his first progeny at the sale we picked this colt as he had a lot of the sire about him,” said Henley Park’s Sarah Devcich.

“He was a lovely balanced and well-marked colt that grew very evenly all the way along, we just let him do his thing,” Devcich said.

Other pinhook success from the 2014 sale include:

271 weanlings have been catalogued for the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale. They will be offered from 10:30am on Sunday 3 May.

Prospective Pinhookers can take advantage of the Platinum Session, consisting of 149 weanlings that have X-Rays available for viewing at the repository. There is an additional 122 weanlings in the Select and General weanling sessions.

“This sale gives pinhookers from Australia and New Zealand some outstanding opportunities to buy attractive, well-pedigreed young horses that are ideally suited to turnover at next year’s yearling sales," said Jonathan D’Arcy, Inglis National Bloodstock Director.

"Andrew Munce in our finance department is very happy to speak to clients who are interested in pinhooking weanlings this year into the Inglis Sale Series in 2016,” D'Arcy said.

The leading sires by average at the 2015 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale that will be represented with weanlings on 3 May include Fastnet Rock, Street Cry, Medaglia d’Oro, Sepoy, Snitzel, More Than Ready, Exceed And Excel, Lonhro, I Am Invincible, High Chaparral, Testa Rossa, Foxwedge, Stratum, Commands, Sebring, Smart Missile and So You Think.

Buyers will also have the opportunity to secure the first weanlings offered by this year’s outstanding group of first season sires including Pierro, All Too Hard, Your Song, Animal Kingdom, Excelebration, Ocean Park, Dalakhani, Delago Deluxe, Americain, Bullet Train, Harbour Watch, Instinction and Golden Archer.

Pinhookers wishing to discuss Inglis’ range of financial assistance for the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale are encouraged to contact Andrew Munce on +61 2 9399 7999 or email andrew.munce@inglis.com.au

CLICK HERE to access the online catalogue, which is also available on the Inglis Sales iPad App. Hard-copy catalogues can be requested from the Sydney office on +61 2 9399 7999 or email catalogue@inglis.com.au