Sales

Gosden team lands final blow with €320,000 New Bay filly at Arqana

Gestut Ammerland’s New Bay filly from the family of German Derby heroine Borgia and Prix Vermeille winner Baltic Baroness topped the third and final day of the main section at Arqana’s flagship August Yearling Sale when realising €320,000 to John and Thady Gosden online.  From an excellent German family, the filly quickly became the subject... Read More

Gordon-Watson goes to €2.4 million for ‘best Dubawi filly I’ve ever seen”

Yulong buy Galileo filly while broodmare investment pays off for Crabtree A Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) filly from a truly outstanding Niarchos family and consigned by Haras d’Etreham blew the lid off the second day of the Arqana August Yearling Sale when selling to Charlie Gordon-Watson for €2.4 million (approx. AU$3.85m). The attractive February-born filly is... Read More

Negotiations underway after Moonlight Maid passed in through Inglis Digital

A deal could yet be reached for the sale of Moonlight Maid (Puissance De Lune) in time for the valuable Group 2 winner to head to stud in September after she was passed in through the Inglis Digital Online Auction yesterday. The star attraction of the August (Early) Sale, VRC Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m) placegetter... Read More

Extraordinary top-level roll call as Tattersalls announces Book 1 catalogue for the October Yearling Sale

Siblings to outstanding performers including Darley shuttlers Blue Point (Shamardal) and Ghaiyyath (Dubawi), as well as Battaash (Dark Angel) and Palace Pier (Kingman), feature among a customarily strong catalogue of 502 for Book 1 of the 2021 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.   The list goes on, as there are half-brothers and sisters to 47 Classic... Read More

Entries open for 2022 Inglis yearling sales

Inglis will largely maintain the status quo for its live auction sales in 2022, a schedule which this year capitalised on a surging thoroughbred market to deliver a number of records. The company’s sales season will open with the Classic Yearling Sale (February 6 to 8) and the Premier Sale in Melbourne will run from... Read More

See’s Lonhro vision pays off in Japan

Singapore owner and breeder Jayven See compares his hobby of breeding mares to Australian stallions to northern hemisphere time and exporting them to Japan as the reverse business model to that of Arrowfield Stud supremo John Messara. On Tuesday, See and his partners in the Japanese mare venture reaped a big reward when a colt... Read More