Quality continued to find good homes on Day Three of the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Select Broodmare Sale with 227 lots selling for $6,291,850 at an average of $44,309.
The 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Select Broodmare Sale proved, yet again, that cream rises to the surface, resulting in another brisk day of trade with 202 lots sold for $10,315,850 at an average of $75,298.
The record price for a thoroughbred sold at public auction in Australian was shattered today when dual Group One winning Anabaa (USA) mare, Virage de Fortune was purchased by Darley Australia for an astonishing $3.
Buyers dipped into the fountain of youth at Newmarket today, with the William Inglis Australian Select Weanling Sale adding to a stunning week of auction action, selling 169 lots (85% clearance) for a gross of $3,899,350 at an average of $23,073.
Upon completion of the third and final session of the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale at Newmarket yesterday, breaking records were once again the order of the day.
The William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale’s bountiful run continued at Newmarket tonight with 71 lots sold for a gross of $25,225,000 and an average of $355,282, an increase again on last year.
Set to be among the sale toppers at next week’s 2007 William Inglis & Son Select Weanling & Broodmare Sale, Anabaa (USA) mare Virage de Fortune will have her last start this coming Saturday in the time honoured Group One All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick.
Graham and Steve Brown’s Hunter Valley based Kitchwin Hills will head to the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale with their largest ever Easter yearling draft, a draft that has Stud Manager Michael Malone and the rest of the Kitchwin Hills ‘champing at the bit’ about the prospects of their draft.
The ‘cosmopolitan' nature of the March Thoroughbred Sale was clearly evident at Oaklands Junction today with weanlings, yearlings, untried stock, colts & geldings and fillies & mares all up for grabs.
If one was to sit down and write a Press Release on the current updates to the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale, it could easily turn into a thesis.
The 2007 William Inglis & Son March Thoroughbred Sale will begin this Thursday March 22 at Oaklands Junction commencing at 11am and will continue the following day, Friday March 23, also starting at 11am.