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Golden period for Inglis’ Melbourne sale highlights extraordinary value to be found
The two-day Inglis Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale gets underway at Oaklands today, with the last three months shining a light on the outstanding value that be found at the yearling auction, headlined no more so than by yesterday’s Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Savatoxl (Kuroshio). An $8,000 graduate, the five-year-old joins Australian Guineas (Gr 1,... Read More
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Australians fly in search of pinhook candidates at NZB National Weanling Sale
For the first time in about 15 months, Australian buyers have made the most of a trans-Tasman travel bubble, heading overseas in search of trading opportunities at today’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale. NZB sales manager Danny Rolston revealed the company “worked pretty hard to get a bigger catalogue than what we ended up... Read More
‘Chairman’s quality’ mares to go under the hammer at Australian Broodmare Sale
Friday night’s Chairman’s Sale was an undoubted success, but let’s face it, with an average of more than $500,000 only a small percentage of the industry’s breeders can play at the elite level. For that reason, today’s 248-lot Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale will see a much broader buying bench participating at Riverside Stables and Inglis’... Read More
Peters’ Queen makes $2.5 million at Chairman’s Sale as Coolmore backs Wootton Bassett
In Her Time also makes $2.2 million in stunning three hours of high-end mare trade Coolmore has continued its extraordinary spending spree with a view of mirroring a strategy employed to support unbeaten US Triple Crown champion Justify (Scat Daddy) on another high-profile shuttler, European star sire Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj). Tom Magnier, the principal of... Read More
A true family affair comes to an end with Causeway Girl ahead of Chairman’s sale
For Sledmere Stud’s Catriona Murphy the sales journey with Causeway Girl (Shamus Award) is about to go full circle. It all started back in 2017 when Murphy prepared the striking black daughter of Shamus Award (Snitzel) on behalf of her mother, Jennifer MacKay (who bred her), for the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. There she was... Read More
Traders make their mark on day one of HTBA May Yearling Sale
The “Scone sale”, held in Sydney last year by necessity but by choice 12 months later, yesterday continued the now predictable surge in yearling prices, as demand for ready to run stock came to the fore at Inglis’ Riverside Stables. The HTBA May Yearling Sale, the Hunter Valley auction rebranded by Inglis which traditionally is... Read More