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.
3YO gelding Kosgei (The Autumn Sun) set a new Australasian record for a colt/gelding in a Digital Sale when realising $750,000 to the bid of Mr Daniel Yeung/Magus Equine in today’s Inglis Digital December Online Sale.
Sierra Sue – one of the best performed Australian-trained race mares of recent years - will be offered in a bespoke Inglis Digital online auction later this month.
Siblings to multiple G1 winners and youngsters by stallions from a hugely exciting crop of first season stallions headline a stunning Inglis Weanling Sales Series in July.
Inglis has started its 150th-year-in-business with a bang, as never-before-seen competition saw this year’s Classic Yearling Sale comfortably finish as the best on record, with almost all key year-on-year indicators on the rise.
89% clearance and a 48% jump in gross was achieved by Book Two of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on another glorious Autumn day at Newmarket. Trainers and syndicators from across the Eastern Seaboard competed for more than 80 yearlings, with the top price of $42,000 being reached by Lot 65, a son of Australian Derby winner Roman Emperor out of Group 1-placed Miss Meliss. The colt was offered by Princes Farm, the sale’s leading vendor by average and one of 16 vendors to achieve 100% clearance through the ring.
The much talked about 2016 Inglis Broodmare catalogue brought out a red hot buying bench with 90% of lots sold on Day Two of the Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, headlined by the unreserved dispersals of Bell View Park Stud and Bell River Thoroughbreds.
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.
Turangga Farm bred and sold galloper Able Friend has been rated the equal-top Southern Hemisphere bred racehorse for 2014 by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities overnight, taking over from fellow Inglis graduate Black Caviar who held that title for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Five sires, all Australian products who have captured the annual Champion Australian Sire title on earnings, will be among the mouthwatering collection of at least 70 which will be shown to invited disciples of breeding and racing when Hunter Valley studs conduct their pre season Stallion Parades in the period August 21-25.
Sincero and Ilovethiscity have joined fellow Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale graduate Secret Admirer at the top of Epsom Handicap markets after running the quinella in the Group 1 ATC George Main Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill today.
The first foal of Group 1 international conqueror Sun Classique has been added to the star-studded entries received for the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
One of the most exciting lots set to grace a sales ring in the next twelve months, the brother of globetrotting champion So You Think, will be offered at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in 2012.
2010 Australian Inglis Easter Yearling sale topper Godspeed makes his race debut at Rosehill this Saturday where the $1.875million colt will likely take on a host of other well bred and highly priced debutants from leading stables.
CHAMPION jockey Damien Oliver's willingness to stick with Triple Honour has given trainer Chris Waller a timely confidence boost before the Group One $500,000 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday.