Middle market to hold the key to depth of the buying bench at Riverside Stables as juveniles go under the hammer Inglis’ Sebastian Hutch is not making any bold predictions ahead of today’s Ready2Race Sale, Australasia’s opening two-year-old auction of the year, despite a large international buyer cohort being in Sydney for the first time... Read More

Estonian Princess (Snitzel) topped the Inglis Digital September (Early) Sale which concluded yesterday at $375,000, in what was an excellent pinhook result for Simon Raleigh of TJS Bloodstock.  Raleigh had purchased the Group 3-winning daughter of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) just 16 months earlier for $200,000 in foal to So You Think (High Chaparral) from the... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock expects to welcome an influx of buyers from key overseas markets in Australia and Hong Kong, as well as further afield, for its Ready to Run Sale in November for the first time in three years. The thoroughbred auction house, which last night released a catalogue of 329 lots for the two-day... Read More

Group 1-winning mare Entriviere (Tavistock) has been retired and will be offered to the market via Gavelhouse Plus after a career-ending injury.  The Te Akau-owned mare, winner of the Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) earlier this year in her native New Zealand, finished sixth on her return this season in the Kerikeri Cup (1100m), but... Read More

Mystery buyer Louis Bloodstock made an eyebrow-raising splash at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale in June when the hitherto unknown identity purchased a grand total of 22 yearling fillies for just shy of $1 million, to be named the leading buyer at the season-ending auction on the Gold Coast. However, it now transpires that... Read More