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.
The most expensive filly ever sold at Oaklands – and the equal-second highest priced yearling overall – topped a strong opening day of the 2023 Premier Yearling Sale.
The second annual ‘Inglis Sunday Lunch’ – raising money for the Ingham Institute and South West Local Health District – will take place at Riverside on Sunday April 2, the day prior to the start of the Easter Yearling Sale.
The highest-priced 2YO ever sold at an Inglis Ready2Race Sale – and the most expensive breeze up horse sold in Australasia in 15 years – today topped what was the highest-grossing 2YO sale in Australian history.
The Great Southern Sale today concluded with fireworks in the ring, bringing an end to the Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series which has been crowned “the best ever’’.
All is in readiness for the Easter Yearling Sale, to be held at Riverside Stables on April 5 and 6.
On-farm inspections have been ongoing over the past couple of weeks with a number of buyers, agents and trainers inspecting catalogued lots.
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.
Never before has the Classic Yearling Sale seen a day like today.
A record individual days gross, a record individual price and a record sale average has seen the first of Inglis’ select yearling sales for the 2022 season start on a high as vendors enjoyed the bloodstock boom and buyers reaped the rewards of some outstanding stock.
Given the evolving Covid situation in Victoria, the Great Southern Sale will be pushed back three weeks to the new dates of Sunday July 4 and Monday July 5 at Oaklands.