“It’ll be a one-stop shop” – Inglis buoyed by rich Australian Weanling Sale catalogue
Inglis has released the catalogue for their Australian Weanling sale and Sebastian Hutch, bloodstock CEO at the auction house, believes it presents a diverse catalogue rich in both quality and quantity.
A total of 574 lots have been finalised for the two-day sale in Sydney on May 5 and 6, with 107 individual stallions represented among 59 individual vendors, including the likes of Coolmore, Widden, Segenhoe, Yarraman, Vinery, and Newgate.
“We’re very conscious of the fact people have options as to where they sell their stock in terms of the weanling market,” Hutch told ANZ Bloodstock News.
“I think the biggest compliment you could pay to the sale is the volume and nature of breeders and vendors that have chosen to sell their stock at the Australian Weanling Sale in 2025.”
Hutch attributed the quality this year’s catalogue to the sales recent successes both on the track and for pinhookers, with graduates including Group 1 winners Kimochi (Brave Smash) and Hayasugi (Royal Meeting) as well as this season’s Group 3-winning juvenile Field Of Play (Deep Field), while last year’s pinhooking results included $60,000 into $400,000, $25,000 into $240,000, and $150,000 into $420,000.
“We’ve worked hard on our weanling sale, it’s gathered real momentum,” he said. “It’s been a good sale in the last number of years and a catalogue of this nature is a culmination of that effort. I think it’ll be a one-stop shop for people if they want to consider one weanling sale this year.”
Highlights of this year’s auction include Dorrington Farm’s dispersal draft and a first look at the progeny of exciting first-season sires – including the nine-time Group 1 winning champion Anamoe (Street Boss) and other brilliant racehorses such as Artorius (Flying Artie), Best Of Bordeaux (Snitzel), Daumier (Epaulette), Hitotsu (Maurice), In The Congo (Snitzel), Jacquinot (Rubick), Paulele (Dawn Approach), Sejardan (Sebring) and State Of Rest (Starspanngledbanner) to name a few.
“You can pretty much buy whatever you want,” Hutch said. “There’s going to be high-end pinhook options and abundant buy to race options.
“It’s the first look anyone has of those weanlings by first-season sires. Anamoe is a really exciting horse, a nine time Group 1 champion, and a beautiful horse.
“In The Congo, State Of Rest, Best Of Bordieux, Artorius, Daumier, Hitotsu, Jacquinot, Paulele, Sejardan – it’s an interesting group of stallions that present lots of opportunity for people on the basis of the yearling market: there’s tremendous advertisement to buy yearlings by quality first-season sires.
“And no less appealing would be the progeny of second and third-season stallions whose two-year-old’s have started rolling.”
Among the Dorrington unreserved draft, which offers weanlings produced by prominent Victorian breeder Robert Crabtree in conjunction with Noorilim Park, is a Blue Point (Shamardal) daughter of 2017 Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Catchy (Fastnet Rock) and a Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) daughter of the Group 1 winner Sheidel (Holy Roman Emperor), as well as weanlings by Toronado (High Chaparral) and Home Affairs (I Am Invincible). The dispersal will also include a colt by Darley’s star stallion Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) out of Group 2-winning juvenile Enbihaar (Magnus), making the colt a half-brother to $1 million yearling and Group 2 Too Darn Lizzie, who will be offered at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.
“It’s a highlight of the sale at this stage, there’s plenty of quality,” Hutch said. “They will be sought after – good stallions, good pedigrees, presented on behalf of a very, very effective breeder.
“That draft is complimented by Too Darn Lizzie’s full brother – the Too Darn Hot colt out of Enbihaar, consigned by Widden [Lot 367]. That’s a sort of horse that doesn’t typically end up at a weanling sale.”
The Australian Weanling Sale begins a huge week of breeding stock sales at Riverside, with the Chairman’s Sale on May 8 and the Australian Broodmare Sale on May 9.
Supplementary entries for the Australian Weanling Sale, which offers all graduates eligibility for the Inglis Race Series, remain open until April 24. To discuss options, please contact a member of the Inglis Bloodstock team or click here to enter.