Everyone told Neil Osborne he was mad when he bought Mane Lodge for $400,000 around 40 years ago. It was the early-80s – a time of big hair, synthesisers and shoulder pads, and some pretty grotesque interest rates as well. For Osborne to make it he’d have to abide with not just stallions and mares... Read More

High-end colts buyers and those searching for a star filly will be spoiled for choice at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, with siblings to some of the southern hemisphere’s best-performed racehorses in recent years set to go under the hammer at Riverside Stables in April. A 487-lot catalogue, an increase of 21 compared to... Read More

The 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, an auction with a long-held reputation for having some of Australasia’s best horses sold through the Oaklands Junction ring, will have an international flavour in terms of its bloodstock offering and there could also be a larger-than-expected overseas buying bench if early interest is any guide. Inglis last night... Read More

“Dad, no one knows who we are. You’ve got to raise our profile!”  Days like yesterday will help.  If you were at the Magic Millions this week, wandered away from the big hitters and their seven-figure colts, through the gates and across the road to the fittingly obscure sounding Stable X, you might have happened... Read More

Lee Freedman has seen yearling sale trends come and go – the booms and the busts and the burst bubbles.  And the 65-year-old is convinced the record numbers at this week’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale are no pandemic-inflated anomaly.  Theories have been proffered to explain the prices paid in the past week, particularly for relatively... Read More