While overall spending on Australian yearlings to this point of the sales season has dropped nearly $28 million compared to last year, the average price of a yearling is tracking to be the second highest on record. Run The Numbers takes the temperature of the market after Easter.
The jubilation for Inglis was clear after a highly successful Australian Easter Yearling Sale which featured the highest average price and third-highest gross in its illustrious history.
It followed on from a surprisingly strong Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, which featured the third-highest average and fourth-highest aggregate in its history, and an Inglis Classic Sale which saw the fourth-highest average and sixth-biggest aggregate.
Having defied the gloom of the market to pretty much match last year’s aggregate across the three sales ($265.4 million to $266.9 million) and increase the average of an Inglis-sold yearling to $179,950 in 2025 compared to $174.232 in 2024, Inglis had hit its own Triple Crown. It was cause for champagne for Mark Webster, Sebastian Hutch in the Inglis team.
The popping of corks at the Riverside Stables on Monday night may have seemed incongruous compared to the chaos enveloping the global economy, but if there were any troubles on the horizon for the bloodstock market, they were not in evidence across two days of selling which yielded over $150 million.
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