A colossal week of trade at Riverside has come to a stunning end with today’s Australian Broodmare Sale enjoying extraordinary growth across all key financial indicators.
G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Celebrity Queen tonight became the highest-priced mare ever sold at an Inglis Chairman’s Sale when realising $2.5m to Coolmore on a spectacular night of action at Riverside.
A Dundeel half sister to dual G1-winning filly Montefilia is among 311 lots catalogued in the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online Auction, which opens for bidding at 3pm today.
A $65,000 broodmare purchase from last year has today produced the top-priced lot at the record-breaking Australian Weanling Sale when a Capitalist x Laylia weanling realised $400,000 at Riverside.
A colt purchased for just $18,000 at last year’s Great Southern Weanling Sale – held online due to Covid – has topped today’s second and final day of the HTBA May Yearling Sale at Riverside.
October’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale will be the big beneficiary of today’s HTBA May Yearling Sale leading lots, with the top two purchases set to be breezed up and reoffered at Riverside later this year.
Well-related mare Hummalong is set for a date with Trapeze Artist after Bert Vieira went to $190,000 to secure the daughter of Hallowed Crown in the Inglis Digital April (Late) Online Sale, which concluded with a gross of $3.59 million this evening.
Multiple Stakes winners and two shares in star young stallion Extreme Choice – who provided this year’s G1 Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside in his first crop to race - headline Wildcard entries for next week’s Chairman’s Sale.
James Kennedy, Australian businessman and Executive Chairman of Luxury Group, Kennedy, has secured the vacant GPI Racing slot for the 2021 running of The Everest.
Hummalong - a half sister to multiple Stakes winner Humma Humma and unbeaten 2YO Stakes winner Tycoon Humma – headlines one of the strongest ever Inglis Digital Online Auctions, which is now open for bidding.