All bets are off for the title of most successful pinhook of the year after a Dark Angel (Acclamation) colt picked up for a mere €6,000 topped the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze-Up Sale at a record-breaking £410,000 (approx. AU$755,560). Connections of the youngster, including owners Jerry Horan and Katharina Irmer and consignors Justin Timmons and... Read More

The two-day Inglis Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale gets underway at Oaklands today, with the last three months shining a light on the outstanding value that be found at the yearling auction, headlined no more so than by yesterday’s Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Savatoxl (Kuroshio). An $8,000 graduate, the five-year-old joins Australian Guineas (Gr 1,... Read More

For the first time in about 15 months, Australian buyers have made the most of a trans-Tasman travel bubble, heading overseas in search of trading opportunities at today’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale. NZB sales manager Danny Rolston revealed the company “worked pretty hard to get a bigger catalogue than what we ended up... Read More

Friday night’s Chairman’s Sale was an undoubted success, but let’s face it, with an average of more than $500,000 only a small percentage of the industry’s breeders can play at the elite level. For that reason, today’s 248-lot Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale will see a much broader buying bench participating at Riverside Stables and Inglis’... Read More

In Her Time also makes $2.2 million in stunning three hours of high-end mare trade Coolmore has continued its extraordinary spending spree with a view of mirroring a strategy employed to support unbeaten US Triple Crown champion Justify (Scat Daddy) on another high-profile shuttler, European star sire Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj). Tom Magnier, the principal of... Read More