Exciting young mare La Mexicana – in foal to Too Darn Hot – today became the most expensive horse sold on Inglis Digital this year, selling for an “incredible’’ $920,000 in the June (Early) Online Sale.
Stefan Pardi is hoping lightning strikes twice after parting with $600,000 to secure the top lot on the opening day of the Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside.
Extraordinary filly Sheza Alibi (Saxon Warrior) – the $10,000 Inglis Digital fairytale story of the year – produced one of the most spectacular performance seen in a G1 Doncaster Mile in decades, coming from last to first to win eased down by more than 4 lengths.
Trainer Danny O’Brien admitted to channelling his former boss Bart Cummings when targeting the $1m Inglis Sprint with talented filly Getta Good Feeling (So You Think), which won today’s feature.
Inglis Classic graduate Voyage Bubble has delivered a scintillating performance to claim the G1 Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin, cementing his status at the ‘King of the Mile’ in Hong Kong.
They were top quality 3YO fillies and today Joliestar (Zoustar) and Kimochi (Brave Smash) returned as 4YO mares with spring carnival riches at their mercy with impressive first-up wins at Randwick.
A “natural 2YO from a fast family’’ topped today’s HTBA Yearling Sale at Riverside in a result that was “far and away more’’ than the vendor was expecting.
Widden Stud’s exceptional stallion Zoustar was the star on Day 1 of the Easter Yearling Sale, providing the top two lots and four of the top six on a day where blue chip fillies rose to the fore.
A Doncaster Mile winner who could “win an Everest and a Cox Plate’’, by a stallion “capable of producing an absolutely exceptional horse’’ and whose half brother being offered at the upcoming Easter Yearling Sale is “athletic and sleek’’.
North Star Lass (Zoustar) today became the most expensive horse to sell online in Australia in 2023, realising $1,525,000 to the bid of Yulong in the Inglis Digital September (Early) sale.
A Deep Field colt realised a day-high $300,000 late on Day 2 of a successful Australian Weanling Sale which saw year on year gains across a majority of key metrics.
The most expensive colt ever sold at the Australian Weanling Sale topped today’s Day 1 action at Riverside as buyers’ thirst for quality young stock reached new heights.
An extraordinary two days of trade at Riverside has seen the Easter Yearling Sale rise against pre-sale trepidation and an industry-wide market correction to again assert itself as the ‘Best of the Best’ yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere.