Little Avondale stallion Per Incanto’s outstanding season carried on in the Karaka sale ring on Thursday, where his weanling colt fetched a sale-topping $190,000 in the opening hour of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale.
The sale-topping colt, who is out of Listed-winning juvenile London Express, was offered by Seaton Park and was bought by Australian bloodstock agent James Mitchell, who signed for his purchase in the name of Newgate Farm’s Jim Carey.
“We’ve put together a syndicate to buy a few colts to be traded at yearling sales next season, and I thought this was the nicest colt here and my pick of the sale,” Mitchell said.
“He’s by a stallion I love, Per Incanto, who’s just going from strength to strength, and he’s out of a running mare. Being a November foal, he’s only going to continue to develop.”
The colt will be sent to Newgate Farm to grow out before being reoffered at either the Inglis Premier or Easter yearling sales.
“I see him as a real Hong Kong type of horse. He’ll have a lot of appeal with that market,” Mitchell said.
“Per Incanto has sired a lot of winners there, and being out of a Shamexpress mare, he’s a reverse of the cross that produced Ka Ying Rising.”
The colt’s $190,000 purchase price was the second-highest paid at a weanling sale at Karaka in the past 15 years.
The second highest-priced lot to sell on Thursday was a colt by Super Seth who was bought for $130,000 by Kaha Nui Farm.
