Victorian nursery Two Bays Farm have struck for the multiple stakes-placed News Girl (Magnus) after the mare topped the latest Inglis Digital auction yesterday, fetching $375,000.  Injury curtailed the career of the Geoff Duryea-trained six-year-old, who was runner-up in the Kevin Hayes Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) as a three-year-old and the Bellmaine Stakes (Gr 3,... Read More

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale kicked off in fine fashion, headlined by a knockout American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) filly going for US$1.4 million (approx. AU$1.91 million) to Joe Allen. The filly’s half-sister Echo Zulu (Gun Runner) had comfortably won the Spinaway Stakes (Gr 1, 7f) at Saratoga just eight days earlier to provide a... Read More

Australian agent Craig Rounsefell, spurred on by a US Grade 1 winner this year, will make a long-awaited return to America to take in its bloodstock sales series over the next three months, starting with the Keeneland September yearling extravaganza. The Gold Coast-based Boomer Bloodstock principal, who has an extensive American client base, was like... Read More

Gestut Ammerland’s New Bay filly from the family of German Derby heroine Borgia and Prix Vermeille winner Baltic Baroness topped the third and final day of the main section at Arqana’s flagship August Yearling Sale when realising €320,000 to John and Thady Gosden online.  From an excellent German family, the filly quickly became the subject... Read More

A deal could yet be reached for the sale of Moonlight Maid (Puissance De Lune) in time for the valuable Group 2 winner to head to stud in September after she was passed in through the Inglis Digital Online Auction yesterday. The star attraction of the August (Early) Sale, VRC Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m) placegetter... Read More