The recently completed Inglis Classic Sale, regarded as the best guide to the health of the all-important middle market, produced the same median figure as it has in five of the past six editions. What does that tell us? Run The Numbers finds out.
In today's Rowe On Monday, Indonesian businessman Roy Irawan Djatmiko makes Australian market play, Inglis and Magic Millions share Hard Kick bragging rights and Andy Lau recovers after heart attack.
With Savabeel entering the twilight of a decorated career, Mark Chittick is already plotting Waikato Stud’s next chapter, installing Group 1-winning Snitzel colt Return To Conquer as a key plank in the farm’s succession plan.
Bloodstock agent Bruce Slade says Tulloch Lodge’s Golden Slipper strength lies in depth rather than a standout, as the respected bloodstock agent builds an online following by offering candid insight into racing’s realities.
Inglis has continued to claw back market share under CEO Sebastian Hutch, who has adopted a far more competitive stance against Magic Millions than his predecessor, and that public relations strategy was again to the fore at the Inglis Classic Sale.
A buoyant top end powered Inglis to its third-highest grossing Classic Yearling Sale, which featured its second highest average, with a $625,000 Ghaiyyath colt headlining the final day of the $57.2 million auction.
It has been 11 racing seasons since two sons of the same stallion quinellaed the Australian sires championship, but Snitzel and The Autumn Sun are, at this stage, on track to re-create that achievement. Run The Numbers digs into the detail.
Equine Growth Fund flexed its investment muscle at the Inglis Classic, paying $540,000 for a Harry Angel colt as founder Stefan Pardi detailed the group’s strategy to make a major impression on the Australian sales season.
In today's Rowe On Monday, agent Brett Howard comes out of retirement for Magic Millions' Tasmanian sale, everyone's a winner in Closer To Free sale, Arrowfield stallions on top in sires' premiership and the implications around counting bonus prize money.
Star Thoroughbreds is looking to reprise the formula which secured it Group 1 success with Espiona after purchasing a daughter of Extreme Choice on the first day of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
