Date posted March 3, 2010 | Posted by Michele Cullen | Filed under
Sales News,
Staff FavouritesMelbourne, Vic (March 3rd, 2010) - The third day of the 2010 Inglis Premier yearling sale has commenced in the same fashion as the previous two days on a positive note with good results across the board.
Leading South Australian trainer Leon Macdonald held off stiff international competition to secure a colt by Arrowfield’s red hot sire, Starcraft, 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).
Offered by Mill Park the striking chestnut cost Macdonald $300,000.
The $300,000 Starcraft colt
Great results by Australian bred thoroughbreds on the track in South Africa has seen a number of agents and trainers attend the sale and a bay colt by Fastnet Rock, from the Encosta de Lago mare Scarcity, was knocked down to Form Bloodstock from Cape Town for $220,000.
Scarcity, a winner, is a sister to the Group 3 heroine Brockman’s Lass and hails from a family that’s produced the AJC Group I Epsom Hcp winner, Regal Native (by Yallah Native).
Another filly that’s packing her bags to South Africa is the bay daughter of Encosta de Lago and Smytzer’s Trish (by Geiger Counter), the dam of the stakes winning Swish Trish (by Redoute’s Choice). She was knocked down to bloodstock agent James Bester for $150,000.
A filly by the young Danehill stallion, Fastnet Rock , caught the eye of Cindy & Colin Alderson when they paid $160,000 for the bay from Snow Hero (by True Hero), while another filly that sold for that amount was lot 402. By General Nediym from She’s Purring (by Flying Spur) the chestnut was knocked down to Reavill Farm.
She’s Purring won two stakes races during her racing career and has already produced a stakes winner in Global Warming (by Agnes World).
Other yearlings to sell for six-figures have been a bay filly by New Zealand stallion O’Reilly from Stellar Genes (by Centaine) that sold to West Australian Agent John Chalmers for $150,000.
Trainer John Symonds paid $150,000 for a colt by Snitzel from the stakes winning Shine Bridge (by Westbridge) and Anthony Cummings secured the Churchill Downs half-sister to his William Reid winner Turffontein, for $135,000 from the draft of Blue Gum Farm.
Fewer horses have been passed in today and the sale is well on track for a strong closing session.
