Santa Ana Lane’s sibling tops Inglis online sale
A half-sister to champion sprinter Santa Ana Lane (Lope De Vega) topped yesterday’s Inglis Digital February (Early) Online Sale when selling for $205,000.
Fast Star (Zoustar) was offered by Malua Racing on behalf of the horse’s owners, one of which purchased her, with Bill Pearce of Bromfield Park coming out as the winning bidder.
Pearce bred Fast Star, sold her through the Willow Park Stud draft at the 2021 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale for $500,000 and retained a 25 per cent share upon selling. Pearce wanted to buy her outright to breed with and was thrilled to have done so today.
“We thought she was a black-type mare on the track, even Blake Shinn said after he won on her a few weeks ago that it was just a matter of time and the right placement and she’d win a stakes race, and then four days later she bowed a tendon,’’ Pearce said.
“That’s a 12-18 month injury so we put her up for sale and she’ll be retired immediately, she’ll head to Vinery Stud now to continue her recovery and we’ll send her to a stallion this season.
“I wanted to breed with her because being by Zoustar, the Northern Meteor line and the Fairy King Prawn family, it’s one I believe in and one I want to keep breeding into.”
Pearce will offer a Written Tycoon (Iglesia) half-brother to Fast Star as Lot 22 in the Vinery draft at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Yesterday’s second-top lot was the Group 3-placed Atmosphere (Lonhro), selling to trainer Jack Bruce and syndicator High Calibre Racing for $135,000, while another significant element of the sale was a 46-strong Scenic Lodge dispersal, which grossed $442,250.
In total the February (Early) Sale grossed $3,466,150 with an 85 per cent clearance rate. Entries are now open for the Inglis Digital February (Late) Sale, which will be held from February 23-28.
Entries will close at midnight on Wednesday February 21. To submit an entry click here.