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.
Momentum for this year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale reached new heights at Randwick today when star 3YO filly Kimochi (Brave Smash) – who will be offered at the sale at Riverside in May – scored a scintillating win in the G2 Light Fingers Stakes.
Hong Kong trainer Ricky Yiu hopes a Street Boss colt he bought for a Day 1-topping $375,000 is his next Voyage Bubble, the HK Derby winner Yiu also sourced from the Classic Yearling Sale.
Another Award (Shamus Award) and She’s All Class (I Am Invincible), two hugely desirable race mares, are the latest high profile entrants confirmed for the Inglis Digital online platform.
The opportunity for buyers to find their next She’s Extreme is now available, with the Inglis Digital November (Early) catalogue open and live for bidding.
Guy Mulcaster hopes Ranch Hand – who he bought for $600,000 in today’s Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale – can develop into a stallion prospect, potentially as early as this weekend.
An “extraordinarily successful’’ Australian Broodmare Sale – the first ever held in a digital format – closed this afternoon, bringing to an end a robust weekend of Inglis breeding stock sales.
The Australian breeding and racing industry has defied economic trends this week on the Gold Coast and in tough financial times across the world, proven its long term sustainability.