Welcome to the 2025 edition of The Straight’s Nearest The Pin from the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

The Straight's Bren O'Brien and Tim Rowe

The concept is simple. Our good friends at Pedigrees360 released a list of the 34 lots they have identified as standing out on their pedigree rankings. You can check out these horses by going to the Pedigrees 360 website and downloading their highlights.

We have got that list down to 20 across the two days and The Straight’s Tim Rowe and Bren O’Brien are going to make predictions of what price each of those lots will sell for. 

Whoever gets closest gets a point. If you guess the amount exactly, you get two points. If a horse passes in, there are no points awarded. 

Day 2 video

At the end of the sale, whoever gets the most points wins and the loser has to buy the other dinner after the sale is finished. Tim and Bren have been playing this ‘unofficially’ for a few years now so have developed quite the rivalry.

Tim and Bren will be guessing simultaneously by holding up a sheet of paper with the price. If we guess the same amount, we get another go at it.

Just to emphasise, we are not experts, and these values are a true guess. Neither of us have inspected the horses, we haven’t accessed any vet reports. We are going on pedigrees, the fact that Pedigrees 360 have highlighted them, and that these horses were seen as good enough to get into an Easter catalogue.   

We will be updating the tally as the sale progresses through our social handles and on our website.

Tim won 12-7

Day 1 Video

LotSire DamVendor TimBren PriceWinner
20Per IncantoLady Sayyida Trelawney $525,000 $520,000 $650,000Tim
43The Autumn SunMadrigals Arrowfield$600,000$820,000 $350,000Tim
50Home AffairsMarianne Coolmore$850,000$650,000 $300,000Bren
67SnitzelMiss Leonidas Cressfield$650,000$820,000 $725,000Tim
68FarnanMiss Marielle Lime Country$420,000$450,000 Passed inN/A
71The Autumn SunMissybeel Arrowfield$450,000$750,000 $550,000Tim
98Extreme ChoiceOutsider Art Widden$280,000$900,000 Passed inN/A
101Written TycoonPassarelle Lyndhurst$700,000$875,000 $650,000Tim
203DundeelSupriym Story Glenbeigh Farm$225,000$360,000 $260,000Tim
204I Am InvincibleSweet Kiss Yarraman  Park$750,000$700,000 $460,000Bren
243FrankelVale Dori Segenhoe$1,000,000$800,000 $525,000Bren
252Extreme ChoiceWarmth Newgate$375,000$500,000 $175,000Tim
296Written TycoonBella Vella Widden$350,000$900,000 $475,000Tim
297ZoustarBelluci Babe Little Avondale$900,000$500,000 $1,700,000Tim
306I  Am InvincibleBonny O'Reilly Widden$750,000$850,000 $650,000Tim
309Wootton BassettBring Me Roses Coolmore$500,000$400,000 $400,000Bren   (2)
329Extreme ChoiceCoco As In Chanel Newgate$1,300,000$700,000 $200,000Bren
376The Autumn SunFinal Thought Arrowfield$320,000$260,000 $160,000Bren
386Satono AladdinGallwitz Trelawney$550,000$360,000 $725,000Tim
408I  Am InvincibleHonesty Prevails Arrowfield$1,100,000$1,600,000 $800,000Tim
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