It was a day of staggering drama, global records and the most incredible bidding and theatre ever witnessed in a thoroughbred sales ring as the much anticipated daughter of Pierro and Winx set a world record price for a yearling filly at Riverside.
The most extraordinary digital sale the world has ever seen concluded this evening as the Inglis Digital April (Late) online auction grossed a mammoth $10,721,799.
An exceptional opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale has seen a new Southern Hemisphere record set for an individual day’s aggregate as the surge for top quality bloodstock continued at Riverside.
The most successful Classic Sale in history ended this evening with multiple records smashed and a huge cross-section of participants on both sides of the industry ledger enjoying remarkable outcomes.
Mane Lodge front man Neil Osborne first sold at an Inglis Sale at Newmarket in 1979.
Fast forward 43 years and the 70-year-old today realised an achievement - “not a dream, because it wasn’t really anything I thought would ever realistically happen’’ – when his Extreme Choice x To Dubawi Go colt set a new Classic Sale individual price record of $825,000.
It was Christmas in July at Oaklands this afternoon as the most expensive weanling ever sold at the Great Southern Sale delivered a remarkable result for Blue Gum Farm.
A pair of fillies both broke previous individual Gold Sale records on Day 2 action at Oaklands today, capping off an “extremely successful’’ renewal of the 2021 auction.
An extraordinary opening day of Inglis Easter has resulted in a record individual days trade for a Southern Hemisphere yearling sale, with $64,470,000 grossed at Riverside.
The “colt of the year’’ from “the best family in the southern hemisphere’’ was the star of Day 3 of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale, which ended as the second-best Easter Sale ever.
The most expensive yearling ever sold in Victoria, the most expensive yearling sold in the world this year and the most expensive yearling ever by star stallion I Am Invincible.
Trainer Brett Cavanough landed the biggest pay day of his successful career after his brilliant filly Loved Up scored an impressive victory in the $403,300 Inglis 3YO Scone Guineas, (1400 metres) on Saturday.
Renowned soprano Li Jing Jing raised the curtain on Sha Tin’s National Day raceday but it was Bundle Of Joy who took centre stage. David Hall’s charge eclipsed higher profile rivals and announced his arrival in Pattern race company with a smart victory in the HKG3 National Day Cup.
The 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has concluded with a first class 83% clearance rate in Session I and records eclipsed in Session II thanks to a diverse buying bench competing on top quality yearlings by a wide variety of sires.
Entries are now being taken for the 2014 Inglis Select Yearling Sales Series, which will again provide all breeders, big or small, with tailored market leading options for their young thoroughbreds.
A colt by Easter graduate Fastnet Rock shone on Day Two of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney when selling for $4 million to Emirates Park Stud.