Million-dollar mare Snow In May to stay with Charlton

Stakes-winning, Group 1-placed mare Snow In May will remain in training with Tom Charlton after being sold for $1.05 million at the Chairman’s Sale on Thursday.

The four-year-old by The Autumn Sun, runner-up last start at Randwick in April, was purchased by Yulong for $1.05 million, the first seven-figure mare of the 2026 edition of Inglis’ blue-chip breeding stock sale.

A winner of the Listed Canberra Guineas and placed in a Group 1 Flight Stakes and Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes and Hot Danish Stakes, Snow In May was sold by a syndicate of owners which included Richard Pegum, Neil Werrett, Wilf Mula, Kevin Maloney, Frank and Christine Cook and Julia Ritchie.

She is a daughter of the two-year-old stakes-placed Siyouni mare See You Soon.

“It’s lovely because she (raced) in my dad (Bill’s) colours as well, which is special,” Ritchie said after the completion of a three-way bidding duel, which ended with Yulong winning the battle.

“The timing was right (to sell her) and her last run was to put her back in the zone, which is great. She got a little bit wayward for a while there, but she’s a beautiful mare and she’s still got some racing to go with her.

“I think for us, as some of us are breeders, some will be moving on to look at other horses as well, (it made sense to sell now).”

Charlton, who is operating the Sydney stable outright while his senior co-trainer John O’Shea serves a disqualification, confirmed soon after speaking to Yulong’s chief operating officer Sam Fairgray that he would retain the mare to train.