As Inglis and Magic Millions jostle for the right to sell the best mares to go to auction in 2025, two of Australasia’s premier Group 1 winners won’t be among them when catalogues are released for the breeding stock sales in May.
The respective owners of New Zealand Derby and Vinery Stud Stakes winner Orchestral and Saturday’s Coolmore Classic second favourite Amelia’s Jewel intend to retain their valuable mares for breeding purposes rather than cash them in for probable multimillion-dollar amounts.
West Australian owner-breeder Peter Walsh has previously vowed that he will keep five-year-old Amelia’s Jewel, who won the Group 1 Northerly Stakes in Perth as a three-year-old, and Orchestral’s New Zealand owners Colin and Helen Litt also plan on keeping their daughter of Savabeel.
Either mare would be a star attraction, commanding huge international interest, if they were to be offered at either the Inglis Chairman’s Sale in Sydney on May 8 or the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale from May 27 to 29.
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