Maher Holding on to promising Captive

Unraced three-year-old Holding Captive topped the Inglis Digital March (Early) Online Sale after being sold back to his trainer Cairon Maher for $310,000.  

A son of Zousain, Holding Captive was originally purchased for $280,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale by Maher in partnership with David Redvers.

Off the back of a dominant trial victory at Caulfield a fortnight ago, the gelding was offered through Inglis Digital to allow several shareholders, with Maher effectively buying them out.

“Basically a few owners wanted to cash out of him, which is fine, but Ciaron still has great belief in the horse,” Maher’s head of Bloodstock Will Bourne said.

“So to appease everyone, he was put online on Inglis Digital and this is the fairest outcome possible. He’s won a trial nicely, he’ll head to the races next Wednesday and he’s a horse we have a really good opinion of.”

The sale’s second-top lot was the unbeaten The Real Mahjong, who realised $115,000 to Wan Bloodstock and will continue his racing career in Hong Kong.

“He’s two from two and the ownership group decided to capitalise on that record and sell him,” Bourne said. “They bought another horse at Inglis Premier last week and we wish the new owners all the best.”

Queensland trainer David Vandyke secured the third-top lot, two-year-old filly Oregon Coast, for $100,000.

The March (Early) Sale grossed $2,507,300.