Day one at Inglis Easter featured the sale – as the equal second-highest priced filly – of a half-sister to a filly who, once an exciting racetrack prospect, has instead become a Widden Stud ‘project’. Lot 115, a daughter of Zoustar (Northern Meteor) offered by Widden as agents and sold to Suman Hedge Bloodstock for... Read More

It’s taken 21,450 kilometres across seven legs, and more than the usual leaps of faith required to buy a horse with no brand, but the first foal from what’s understood to be the only Venezuelan mare ever imported to Australia finally goes on sale this week. Lot 347 at the Inglis Easter sale – a... Read More

Stakes-winning mare Festivity will begin her career as a broodmare at Arthur and Harry Mitchell’s Yarraman Park Stud after the New South Wales-based nursery purchased the daughter of their resident stallion I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) for $480,500 on gavelhouse.com yesterday. Raced by David Ellis’ Te Akau syndicate, Festivity won six of her starts, headed... Read More

The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale will be extended to two days after the company catalogued 415 yearlings for the May 4 and 5 Riverside Stables auction, the largest offering of foals in Sydney since 2010. Officially launched last night, the Australian Weanling Sale catalogue includes weanlings by 94 different sires including Zoustar (Northern Meteor), Pierro... Read More

Champion mare Melody Belle’s (Commands) half-sister Exaltation (Not A Single Doubt) will be covered by Zoustar (Northern Meteor) this spring after being sold to Widden Stud yesterday for $NZ560,000. The famed Hunter Valley farm beat out rivals from Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong to purchase the five-year-old Te Akau Racing mare, who is in-foal... Read More