Oakland and Scone Sales

Oaklands Vobis Yearling Sales 
Held on Sunday 23rd of April 2017 
A successful sale well up from last year ,congratulations to all invoved. 
Average was $22,547 Gross $4,518,500 Clearance 88 % 
Blue Gum Farm was the leading vendor , selling 14 of its 15 lots for an aggregate of $453,000

Some of the lots sold were ---

Blue Gum Farm's lot 71 Fiorente colt sells to NZ trainer Roger James for $44,000 

Trainer Shawn Mathrick gets in winning bid of $60,000 for Rangal Park's lot 92 Danerich colt

Bred by Greta West Stud, lot 47 Street Boss colt is sold by to Moloney Racing for $78,000

Greta West Stud stands Keep the Fath and King of Prussia.

Lot 56 by Written Tycoon makes $80,000 and heads to the Mick Price stable.  

Lot106 went to Goldfront Racing in WA  Helmet filly out of Smarty Jane

Bombora Downs sells its Turfontein colt to Robert Smerdon for $68,000 
Ballarto Lodge sells its Reward for Effort  colt to Regal/Bluegrass/Gelagotis Racing for $65,000

Fighting Sun Colt out of the Canny Lad mare Sinuous, bred by Two Bays Farm and sells to Anton Koolman Bloodstock for 110,000  .

Top Lot ! Flying Sun by Northern Meteor/Irish Darling 

   The Northern Meteor stallion stands at Sun Stud for 13,700 dollars. Northern Meteor a son of Encosta De Lago,while Irish Darling is a daughter of the Best Western stallion Ivory's Irish. He is free of the Danzig/Danehill line.   Sun Studs most prestigious stallion is the great Bel Esprit standing for $18,700 at their Queensland Stud with their old Danzig stallion Monashee Mountain. They also stand Fiorente son of Monsun. The Flying Spur stallion Magnus and the Storm Cat stallion Statue of Liberty at their NSW Stud. 

 Swettenhams Stud top lots at the sale !

Lot 60 is a bay colt by Americain / Paris Secrets

Lot 152 is a bay colt by Fiorente / Aqua Modern

Lot 99 is a bay filly by Master of Design / Sidereal Messenger

Lot 111 is a bay filly by Host / Star Snuck 

Scone Yearling Sales at White Park 

14--15th May 2017
258 Lots with sires represented I Am Invincible , Hinchinbrook , High Chapparal, So You Think , Pierro, Bel Esprit and Foxwedge . 
Highlighted 
Lot 7 High Chapparal filly out of Allaboutus the Arena mare. The last of the High Chapparal's.  
Lot 15 Stryker colt out of a Tale of the Cat mare. 
Lot 16 Like the look of the Epaulettes and this filly is out of a Galileo mare. 
Lot 38 If i was to give one of a Dundeel's a shot it would be this filly out of a Redoutes Choice/Tycoon Joy mare.
Lot 64 A filly by Sizzling the Snitzel stalllion from Edinglassie Stud out of an Encosta De Lago mare.
Lot 127 from Toolooganvale Farm a filly by So You Think out of an Encosta De Lago mare. Second dam by Danehill
Lot 145 Al Maher filly with both Mr Prospector and Danehill on the dams side.  
Lot 184 Al Maher colt from a More Than Ready mare.
Lot 212 Dundeel filly out of an Encosta De Lago mare.

 

Inglis Sales Sydney 2017

Inglis Final Sale Success

   This will be the last sales at the sale yards which will soon fade into folklore with the Newmarket complex sold to an Australian superannuation company for a reported $250 million. It has occupied the  site for more than a century.The Randwick complex run by the Inglis family will move to a new site being built beside the Warwick Farm racecourse, in Sydney. The talk of the sale was Lot 333 which saw a hot battle between Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa  and Teo Ah Khing from the China Horse Club ensued and the Dubai royal came out on top, paying $2.5 million for a full brother to Blue Diamond runner-up Pariah. The Redoutes Choice colt was this weeks Inglis sale topper. There were also another seventeen, one million dollar yearling lot, which is the third largest ever.  Swettenham Stud saw the Toronado first crop of yearlings sell well at the sales. Lot 7 sold for 75000 with lot 19 going for 60000 and lot 61 for 80000. Arrowfield Stud had the highest aggregate purchased with $20,400,000. While lot 51 the Encosta De Lago broodmare Flame of Sydney in foal to Megalia Dóro went for a cool million.

1909 Thoroughbred Sale 

 

First Crop Stallions at Newgate Park at the sales yearling incentive
100,000 dollar bonus
Eurozone is a Northern Meteor stallion out of a Dont Say Halo mare.
Sizzling is a Snitzel stallion out of a General Nedyim mare.
The Factor is a War Front stallion War Front is a Danzig line stallion out of a Miswaki mare.
If any of the yearlings purchased win as a two year old in 2018 the bonus will be paid.

Hong Kong Buyers at Sale

     Inglis Easter Yearling Sale saw the Hong Kong Jockey Club successfully purchasing seven youngsters from the Sydney auction for a total outlay of $3.51 million

Day three saw the Jockey Club secure a fine son of the Group 1 sire Snitzel for $870,000. The handsome colt, Lot 330, is out of the top-class Scarlett Lady, winner of the G1 Queensland Oaks and G1 New Zealand Stakes.

      Then a short while later Lot 360, an $800,000 colt by the champion producer Exceed And Excel, who produced G1 Al Quoz Sprint winner Amber Sky and now the Group1 Sprint Cup winner Mr Stunning. The youngster is a half-brother to five winners, including the Group 1-winning South African filly Happy Archer.

      Another buy was a Written Tycoon colt, Lot 338, for A$530,000. The classy type is out of a half-sister to the multiple G1 winner Mummify.There was also a $420,000 purchase of Lot number 120, an Exceed And Excel colt from a top class family, his second dam being a full-sister to the champion Fastnet Rock; and on day two, a Medaglia D’Oro colt out of the G1 Myer Classic winner Hurtle Myrtle.

Hong Kong Purchasers

Lot 38 ch c Sepoy / Ancient Song (Canny Lad)   $150,000

Lot 120 b c Exceed And Excel ex Emotional Circus (Elusive Quality) $420,000

Lot 180 b c Medaglia d'Oro ex Hurtle Myrtle (Dane Shadow) $420,000

Lot 330 b c Snitzel ex Scarlett Lady (Savabeel) $870,000

Lot 338 ch c Written Tycoon ex Shabtis (Elusive Quality) $530,000

Lot 360  b c Exceed And Excel ex So Tempted (Jeune) $800,000

Lot 366  b or br c I Am Invincible ex Speedy Bell (Brocco) $320,000