An exceptional opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale has seen a new Southern Hemisphere record set for an individual day’s aggregate as the surge for top quality bloodstock continued at Riverside.
The likes of Merchant Navy, Beat The Clock, Southern Legend, Atyaab, Crown Prosecutor, Age Of Fire and others have contributed to Inglis graduates enjoying outstanding international success in recent years and a pair of high-class winners on Friday in New Zealand and Hong Kong respectively, look to have the potential to earn their stripes as G1 winners in due course.
A record individual day of selling for the Classic Sale was one of many highlights of today’s action at Riverside that saw tears, near cyclonic weather conditions and fierce bidding across the session.
Coolmore enjoyed further Group 1 success in New Zealand today when a colt they raised by their champion stallion Fastnet Rock won the Levin Classic at Trentham at just his sixth career start.