Williamsburg tops September (Early) Sale at $455,000
Three-time stakes winner Williamsburg (Snitzel) topped the Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, selling for $455,000 on Wednesday.
Offered by Tony Fung Investments, the five-year-old sold to Scone-based Brett Cavanough, who will attempt to qualify Williamsburg for the $3 million The Big Dance (1600m) – to be run at Randwick on the first Tuesday in November – but the trainer admits he has “plenty of options’’ for the five-time winner.
“He’s a good horse, he’s already proved that plenty of times so I can’t wait to get him into the stables and see what we can achieve with him,’’ Cavanough said.
“A couple of private clients wanted a good horse and I think this is the perfect horse to target a race like the Big Dance with and even possibly the Melbourne Spring Carnival and then the Perth carnival.
“The Big Dance, a mile at Randwick, $3 million, it ticks plenty of boxes for him, it’s just a matter of how we get him there and whether we end up there or not, I’m excited to have him and I’m confident we can have a lot of fun with him.’’
Williamsburg was purchased for $470,000 by Tony Fung Investments at the 2021 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale from the draft of Arrowfield Stud and has won in excess of $1 million in prize-money to date.
Wednesday’s second-top lot was a breeding right in exciting young stallion Pierata (Pierro), which was purchased by STBT Bloodstock for $220,000.
The breeding right was offered by Alma Vale Thoroughbreds, whose representative Verna Metcalfe said: “We’re very happy with the price and just really glad to be able to help the client out by selling it.”
Third-top lot was the stakes-placed winning mare Celestial Storm (Zoustar), who sold to the Western Australia-based entity Stipe for $170,000. Offered by Griffiths/De Kock Racing – on behalf of the ownership group – Celestial Storm will be targeted toward the Perth Summer Carnival.
In total, six lots realised $100,000 or more in the September (Early) Sale, taking to 84 the number of seven-figure lots sold through the platform this year.
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