Melbourne, Vic (March 3rd, 2010) - The third and final day of part one of the 2010 Inglis Premier yearling sale has concluded  with the three days’ trade recording increases across the board highlighted by the average rising 30% on last year’s figure.

The final day’s top two sellers were by Arrowfield stallions.

The top lot was a colt by Starcraft knocked down to leading South Australian trainer Leon Macdonald for $300,000.

Macdonald saw off stiff international competition to secure the chestnut from the West Australian Belmont Classic stakes winner, Tayasu Run (by Tayasu Tsuyoshi), a three-quarter-sister to the Group 1 West Australian Derby winner The Bukhra (by Cheraw) and Listed winner Mouser (by Belele).

The next highest amount paid was $240,000 for a filly by Flying Spur.

From the winning imported mare Witwatersrand (by Unfuwain), she was offered as part of the large Yallambee Stud draft and was knocked down to New Zealander, Paul Willetts. Built in the mould of her sire, the filly is another shining example of the progeny by the son of Danehill who continually goes about his job year-in and year-out.

Great results by Australian-bred thoroughbreds on the track in South Africa has seen a number of agents and trainers attend the Premier sale and two bay colts by Coolmore Stud’s Fastnet Rock were knocked down to Form Bloodstock from Cape Town for more than $200,000.

The first of them to go from through the ring was out of the Encosta de Lago mare Scarcity, a winning sister to the Group 3 heroine Brockman’s Lass, selling for $220,000, from the draft of Yallambee Stud, while the other colt was out of Zakuro (by Hurricane Sky), a winner of seven races and black type placed, who also sold to them, this time for $200,000 from the draft of Crowning Stone. A few lots earlier they had paid $210,000 for a chestnut colt by Rock of Gibraltar from the stakes winning Zabeel mare Warm Smytzer, offered by Makybe.

Another yearling offered by Makybe, that is on the way to South Africa, was selected by bloodstock agent James Bester, who paid $150,000 for a filly by Encosta de Lago from Smytzer’s Trish (by Geiger Counter).

Victorian trainers were amongst the buyers again today with the state’s leading trainer Peter Moody paying $200,000 for a bay colt by Encosta de Lago from the stakes placed mare, Wichita (by Umatilla).  Moody has had great success with the family having trained her black type daughters Our Quivira (by Spinning World & 6 wins) and Eshaw (by Chief Bearhart & 3 wins).

Last year’s Melbourne Cup winning trainer Mark Kavanagh wasn’t about to be left out of the fireworks at Oaklands and he paid $170,000 for a bay son of Fastnet Rock from the draft of Swettenham Stud. Offered as lot 548, the colt is from Artful Whisper (by Machiavellian), and although his dam wasn’t a winner, she does hail from the family of Storm Bird.

Gross receipts for Wednesday’s session totalled $8,307,500 for the 121 yearlings sold - a clearance rate of 74% with the day’s average coming in at $68,657, along with a median of $50,000.

“The record of Melbourne graduates speaks for itself and with that reputation growing all the time, there was plenty of incentive for buyers to be here at Oaklands this week,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.
“The vendors who have offered quality yearlings have been duly rewarded…and the results that have unfolded here over the past three days reflect this.”
“Once again, the clearance rate was looking a little disappointing during the day …which was a shame as we started the day off so well… it picked up and without sounding like a broken record it does indicate that there is an interest in — and a market for — quality yearlings.”
“Of course plenty of shrewd buyers are well aware we still have plenty of nice prospects to be offered tomorrow (Thursday) in part two of the sale and although they lack the pedigree – that does not mean they will lack performance on the track in the future.”

Part Two of the Inglis Premier sale will commence at 11am on Thursday and to kick off the day’s trade is a chestnut filly by Coolmore’s Rock of Gibraltar from the Gone West mare, Balade Russe.

Once again Inglis will offer an on-line bidding facility and the sale will be broadcast on the company’s website throughout the day.

Day 3, Session statistics.
Catalogued 184 Gross Amount $8,307,500
Sold 121 (74%)               Highest (Lot 455) $300,000
Passed In 43 (26%)      Average $68,657
Withdrawn 20 Median $50,000

Part One - Statistics
Catalogued: 554
Withdrawn: 50
Sold: 396 (79%)
Passed In: 108 (21%)
Gross: $28,418,500
Average: $71,764
Median: $55,000
Top Lots: $400,000

Part One top sellers

Lot	Col	Sex	Vendor	Sire	Dam	Purchaser	Buyer location	Price
254	B. or Br.	Filly	Bellerive Stud, NSW	Redoute’s Choice	Maze (NZ)	FW Mitchell	VIC	$400,000
300	B.	Colt	Arrowfield Stud, NSW	Redoute’s Choice	Oceanette (USA)	Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock	NEW ZEALAND	$400,000
86	G.	Colt	Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Maldon	Exceed and Excel	De Lago Mist	M Price & BlueSky Thoroughbreds	VIC	$300,000
455	Ch.	Colt	Mill Park, Meningie, SA	Starcraft (NZ)	Tayasu Run	L Macdonald	SA	$300,000
186	Ch.	Filly	Makybe, Gnarwarre	Encosta de Lago	It’s Who Deanie	Matthew Hyland Racing Pty Ltd	VIC	$250,000
316	B.	Colt	Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Maldon	Fastnet Rock	Pallenberg (NZ)	R Yiu	HONG KONG	$240,000
511	B.	Filly	Yallambee Stud, Romsey	Flying Spur	Witwatersrand (IRE)	P Willetts	NEW ZEALAND	$240,000
215	B.	Colt	Eliza Park, Kerrie	Choisir	Lanadee	Rosemont Bloodstock	VIC	$235,000
213	Ch.	Filly	Burnewang North Pastoral, Rochester	Flying Spur	Lake Susannah	Moody Racing Pty Ltd	VIC	$220,000
386	B.	Colt	Yallambee Stud, Romsey	Fastnet Rock	Scarcity	Form Bloodstock	SOUTH AFRICA	$220,000
500	Ch.	Colt	Makybe, Gnarwarre	Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)	Warm Smytzer (NZ)	Form Bloodstock	SOUTH AFRICA	$210,000
64	B.	Filly	Burnewang North Pastoral, Rochester	Stratum	Coupe	McDonald Racing	VIC	$200,000
351	B.	Colt	Swettenham Stud, Nagambie	Fastnet Rock	Raising High	Rogerson Bloodstock	NSW	$200,000
368	B.	Filly	Torryburn Stud, East Gresford, NSW	Choisir	Rouge Femme	McDonald Racing	VIC	$200,000
506	B.	Colt	Turangga Farm, Scone, NSW	Encosta de Lago	Wichita	Moody Racing Pty Ltd	VIC	$200,000
517	B.	Colt	Crowning Stone, Scone, NSW	Fastnet Rock	Zakuro	Form Bloodstock	SOUTH AFRICA	$200,000
90	B.	Filly	Bellerive Stud, NSW	Starcraft (NZ)	Debutante Robe (JPN)	Mulcaster Bloodstock	NEW ZEALAND	$180,000
183	B.	Colt	Blue Gum Farm, Euroa	Elvstroem	Innocent Baby	William Inglis As Agent	VIC	$180,000
334	Ch.	Filly	Glentree Downs, Modewarre	General Nediym	Pretty Penny	James Bester Bloodstock	NSW	$180,000
11	Ch.	Filly	Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Maldon	Starcraft (NZ)	Bella Inez	Star Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd	NSW	$170,000
101	B.	Colt	Toolooganvale Farm, NSW	Snitzel	Diamond Head	Newmarc Bloodstock	VIC	$170,000
132	Br.	Colt	Makybe, Gnarwarre	Lonhro	Fashion Week	R Yiu	HONG KONG	$170,000
141	B.	Colt	Grange Thoroughbreds, Avenel	O’Reilly (NZ)	Frankish (NZ)	Star Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd	NSW	$170,000
287	B.	Colt	Eliza Park, Kerrie	Bel Esprit	Nezzie	Heinrich Bloodstock	QLD	$170,000
548	B.	Colt	Swettenham Stud, Nagambie	Fastnet Rock	Artful Whisper (USA)	Mark Kavanagh Racing Stables	VIC	$170,000
195	B.	Colt	Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Maldon	Fastnet Rock	Julie’s Paige (USA)	M Pilkington	VIC	$160,000
285	Ch.	Filly	Redbank North, NSW	Encosta de Lago	Nassipoint (NZ)	Form Bloodstock	SOUTH AFRICA	$160,000
402	Ch.	Filly	Widden Stud, Widden Valley, NSW	General Nediym	She’s Purring	C McAlpine	QLD	$160,000
421	B.	Filly	Supreme Thoroughbreds, Vic	Fastnet Rock	Snow Hero	Alderson Racing	VIC	$160,000
18	B.	Filly	Kambula Stud, SA	Pins	Bleveeka	Vin Cox Bloodstock	NSW	$150,000
35	B.	Colt	Arrowfield Stud, NSW	Deep Impact (JPN)	Caerless (IRE)	S Okada	JAPAN	$150,000
203	Ch.	Filly	Supreme Thoroughbreds, Romsey	Starcraft (NZ)	La Bella Zoccola	Danny O’Brien Racing	VIC	$150,000
217	B.	Colt	Kedarona Stud, Catani	Churchill Downs	Last Minute	Dr KC Yeoh	SINGAPORE	$150,000
319	B.	Colt	Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Maldon	Fastnet Rock	Partial Eclipse (USA)	M G Price Racing & Breeding Pty Ltd	VIC	$150,000
403	B.	Colt	Burnewang North Pastoral, Rochester	Snitzel	Shine Bridge (ARG)	JSL Racing	VIC	$150,000
419	B.	Filly	Makybe, Gnarwarre	Encosta de Lago	Smytzer’s Trish	James Bester Bloodstock	SOUTH AFRICA	$150,000
441	B.	Filly	Esker Lodge, Cambridge, NZ	O’Reilly (NZ)	Stellar Genes (NZ)	J Chalmers	WA	$150,000

Tags: Arrowfield Stud, William Inglis, Yearling Sales
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