Sale Overview

The four day 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale ended on Wednesday finishing with total sales exceeding $24 million on over 600 Lots at a clearance rate of 80%.

“Vendors were rewarded by getting first crack at the weanling market and offering their fillies and mares to breeders wanting to buy at this sale so they can secure spots to the stallions that are quickly booking out at Australia’s leading studs,” said Inglis’ National Bloodstock Director Jonathan D’Arcy.

“Good quality weanlings and broodmares have been well received with a lot of horses exceeding their reserves. Ending the sale with a total clearance rate of 80% for the week is a great start to the breeding stock sales season and we look forward to trading further weanlings and mares at the Great Southern Sale in June,” concluded D’Arcy.

$24 million was traded on 194 Weanlings, 432 Fillies and Mares plus two Stallion Shares across the four day sale at an 80% clearance rate.

Striking grey stakes-winning mare Bacchanal Woman topped Day Four of the sale when offered from the draft of Widden Stud as Lot 710. The daughter of Encosta de Lago was sold in foal to Sepoy for $340,000 to Andrew Perryman on behalf of Pan Sutong’s Goldin Farms.

As with all mares secured by the Angaston-based operation this sale, Bacchanal Woman will visit their resident stallion Akeed Mofeed in the coming breeding season.

“She’s correct, with good bone, she’s a quality horse with a great body to her, and she’s a stakes-winning sprint mare, so it was an obvious choice,” said Goldin Farms’ Stud Manager Andrew Perryman.

“We’re supporting Akeed Mofeed heavily, but he is certainly open to outside mares as well. He covered a book of just over 70 mares last year with excellent fertility, and with this mare and the other’s we’ve picked up at Inglis this week he will get his chance,” Perryman said.

Widden Stud secured four-year-old mare Brand New Choice from the draft of Arrowfield Stud for $300,000. The sister to stakes-winning mare Come Hither was offered as Lot 734 and is in foal to Dawn Approach, with plans to send the mare to Widden’s headlining stallion Sebring in the upcoming season.

“We are thrilled to have purchased this mare in partnership. She was a city winner on debut, by Redoute’s Choice. She is a half to two juvenile stakes winners and is from the immediate family of Not A Single Double and Snippets,” said Widden’s Stallion Nominations Manager, Ryan McEvoy.

“She is going to make a mighty broodmare, like his recently retired Group 1 winner Bonaria, this mare will be another lovely daughter of Redoute’s Choice visiting Sebring this season,” McEvoy added.

Stakes-winning mare Absolutelyfabulous was offered as Lot 690 in foal to More Than Ready from the draft of Cressfield Stud. She was secured by Paul Willetts on behalf of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds for $260,000, with the intention of visiting their resident stallion Unencumbered during the upcoming season.

“We always come to Inglis for our broodmares, and this is the mare we have been waiting to buy the whole sale,” said Three Bridges’ Manager Toby Liston.

“She’s a great type of mare, after she foals down the More Than Ready she will visit our resident stallion Unencumbered which will be a perfect cross for her mating (Langfuhr x Joker’s Girl), so there are exciting times ahead,” Liston said.

Eliza Park presented Baltics as Lot 715 carrying a three-quarter-relation to Black Caviar, so it was only fitting that Gilgai Farm, the breeders of the undefeated champion, secured the mare for $150,000.The half-sister to the dam of Black Caviar is in foal following the earliest possible cover (1 September 2014) to the champion’s sire Bel Esprit.

Seven weanlings made in excess of $150,000 and nine broodmares topped $300,000 over the past four days.

Pictures of the sale’s top Lots can be viewed on Inglis’ Facebook page InglisBloodstock

Damon Gabbedy’s Belmont Bloodstock was the most active buyer at the Inglis Australian Weanling and Broodmare Sale for the second consecutive year, securing a variety of weanlings (3 for $151,000) and broodmares (21 for $1,851,000) for a number of clients.

Arrowfield Stud finished as the leading vendors by aggregate for the sale, selling 14 Select Broodmares for $1,884,750. Widden Stud also traded well selling 39 Lots for $1,559,650.

Broodmares and weanlings that passed-in over the last four days are still available for private sale via the Inglis Make-An-Offer Service.