Langbecker celebrate brilliant pinhook result
The year has certainly started with a bang for the Langbecker family.
At the Gold Coast’s first attempt at staging their Magic Millions raceday last month, Letitia Langbecker – daughter of Queensland harness racing legend Kevin Thomas – celebrated breeding the winner of the second race when Slippin’ Jimmy (Pariah) scored.
One race later Amosu (Invader) – bred by Letitia’s daughter Brooke – won The Debut 2YO Plate (1000m), before the meeting was washed out. Brooke had thriftily become the horse’s breeder after purchasing the mare carrying him online for just $15,000.
On Monday at the Inglis Classic sale, Letita was left celebrating again thanks to a stunning pinhooking result which followed another savvy bit of online buying.
Last year, on Inglis’s late April online sale, she bought a weanling filly from Yulong by their ageless stallion Written Tycoon (Iglesia). His daughter Lady Of Camelot had just won the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m), and he was well on his way to taking champion two-year-old sire titles on both sides of the Tasman.
The filly’s dam Maui Girl (Lope De Vega) won three races, while her second dam Run For Naara (More Than Ready) won Flemington’s Gibson Carmichael Stakes (Listed, 1600m) and the third dam Kristopher Street (Kris S) was a stakes winner in the US.
Somehow, Langbecker bought this filly for just $6,500.
On Monday at Classic, the now yearling was sold for $170,000, from the draft of Kenmore Lodge, to Jewelry Piko Racing and Satomi Oka Bloodstock of Japan.
“I thought she’d make $120,000 easily enough. I thought she deserved to make that money, but you never believe it,” said Kenmore’s Kellie Bond, cheekily adding Langbecker owed her “a little tip” for the surprising sale.
“She’s just a nice filly. Letitia bought her online, by the right stallion. She was really well found here, and you could see a result coming pretty early in the week. It’s amazing.
“Everyone knew she only cost $6,500, and it was troubling a lot of people what was wrong with her – but she was clean, and everything was good.
“I’m not sure how they [Yulong] came to the decision to put her online. She was a good quality filly, you could see that all the way through. She was perfect on x-rays. All the vetting was good, so I’m not sure where they came to the decision to sell.
“She’s improved all the way, but I couldn’t work out why she made only $6,500 initially.”
Other strong pinhooking results at Classic include Lot 312, an Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) colt bought by Sullivan Bloodstock and Bevan Smith at last year’s Magic Millions National Weanling Sale for $70,000. She was bought from Sullivan’s draft on Monday for $250,000, by Waterhouse and Bott and Kestrel Thoroughbreds.
“We knew we were on the right stallion and it came together well for us,” said vendor Sherah Sullivan. “I thought $150,000 to $200,000 would’ve been a great result, and then we got $250,000, which was just massive
“He’s in a good two-year-old stable, so I’m really excited”.
Another impressive result was Lot 367, a Trapeze Artist (Snitzel) filly also bought at Inglis’s late April online sale last year, for $6,000 by Phil Taylor. She sold from the Mullaglass Stud draft on Monday for $110,000, bought by Proven Thoroughbreds and Kerry Parker Racing.
Sale statistics – Days One and Two
2025 2024 Catalogued 540 540
Offered 483 479 Sold 373 (77%) 396 (83%)
Aggregate $36,238,000 (-5.9%) $38,546,000
Average $97,153 (-0.1%) $97,338
Median $80,000 $80,000
Top Lot $440,000 $600,000