The blueprint for how Australian thoroughbred auction houses determine key metrics around yearling sales is about to be rewritten in a way that may never be seen again.
A typical Australian Easter Yearling Sale is bankrolled on a demand for blueblood colts as a prime mover for investment.
Of the 26 million-dollar horses at Easter in 2023, 16 of them were colts. In 2022, the gender split for seven-figure lots was 14-6 in the colts’ favour.
But Inglis is bracing itself for the script to be flipped during the second day of selling and it’s all because one of the most significant yearlings to be ever auctioned in Australia is a filly.
Of course, that filly is Winx’s first foal and the eyes of the racing world have been on her every move since it was announced she would be sold at public auction as part of Coolmore’s draft.
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