Five years ago Newgate was a boarding and selling operation. Stallions were a distant dream - Newgate's foundation sire Foxwedge was just a two-year-old making his way in the world on the way to the Golden Slipper.
Five mares topped the $200,000 mark as trading reached almost $2.2million on the opening day of the Inglis Australian Weanling & Breeding Stock Sale in Sydney today.
Opening day figures were slightly up on the corresponding session from 12 months ago during the opening day of the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale as Segenhoe Stud took the day’s honours of top lot.
Danevade, the dual Group placed full sister to Shania Dane and Scintillation sold for a Victorian Broodmare record of $1,050,000 at the Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale in Melbourne today.
The William Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale just keeps getting stronger, with another group of high class mares added to the supplementary catalogue.
Quality continued to find good homes on Day Three of the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Select Broodmare Sale with 227 lots selling for $6,291,850 at an average of $44,309.
The 2005 Australian Easter Yearling Sale concluded today when a further 174 yearlings were sold at Newmarket, bringing the overall gross for the three day sale to $90,528,000, up by some 20 % on last year’s record figure of $75,477,500.