Weanling Sale ends on record-breaking high for Inglis
A Toronado colt from the family of Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth has topped the second day of the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale in Sydney.
Capping a record-breaking sale for, the colt fetched $320,000 on the final day of selling at Riverside.
In year-on-year comparisons, this year’s gross of $16,104,000 represented a 23 per cent increase on 2023 while there was an 8 per cent rise on the average to $55,151.
It was the highest average and aggregate at the sale since it was split from the Australian Broodmare Sale in 2020.
A total of 49 lots sold for $100,000 or more – up from 42 last year – while there were also significant year-on-year increases in weanlings which sold for $200,000 or more (114 per cent) and $300,000 or more (200 per cent).
From the draft of Lustre Lodge, the second-day sales-topper was purchased by M Patel and is the second foal of the Deep Field mare Atomic Pulse, a half-sister to stakes-performed filly Pearl Congenial.
“He’s a colt we brought here thinking we could get $100,000, maybe $120,000 for because he’s a beautiful moving colt by a sire that’s really on fire so we’re absolutely rapt,” Lustre Lodge’s Paige Churcher said.
“Honestly, I was just hoping I could get reserve back on him, we’re just ecstatic. He’s gone ahead in leaps and bounds and hopefully the purchaser gets a great result as well.
“He was very well found here all week, he did over 200 inspections and he just handled it all like a true professional.”
The second top lot on Tuesday was a Home Affairs colt from Coolmore, which realised $260,000 to the bid of Fernrigg Farm.
The colt earned the distinction of being the highest-priced progeny of a first-season sire at the sale.
“We’re very excited with what the stallion is going to do leading into his first yearling crop,’’ Coolmore’s John Kennedy said.
“He’s been full every season since he’s been to stud, we’ve heavily supported him with some of our best mares … we have very high aspirations for him and he really looks like he’s well on his way to reaching those heights.”
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Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said the past two days of trade reflected the excellent support for the sale by both vendors and buyers.
“It’s been a really positive start to the week,’’ Hutch said.
“As is the case with any sale, it’s about trying to provide a good service to vendors that in turn generates good results for them and that has been the case with this sale for the last few years, hence the good momentum that it has.
“The quality of the stock the buyers have access to at the sale is improving year after year and that is reflected in the engagement of the buyers this year and ultimately the results.”
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