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

For Sledmere Stud’s Catriona Murphy the sales journey with Causeway Girl (Shamus Award) is about to go full circle. It all started back in 2017 when Murphy prepared the striking black daughter of Shamus Award (Snitzel) on behalf of her mother, Jennifer MacKay (who bred her), for the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. There she was... Read More

The “Scone sale”, held in Sydney last year by necessity but by choice 12 months later, yesterday continued the now predictable surge in yearling prices, as demand for ready to run stock came to the fore at Inglis’ Riverside Stables. The HTBA May Yearling Sale, the Hunter Valley auction rebranded by Inglis which traditionally is... Read More

Returning to the scene where past glories were first conceived proved a running theme at a record-breaking edition of the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, no more so than when Michael O’Callaghan capped a headlining day for Tally-Ho Stud by swooping for a £210,000 (approx. AU$376,630) Twilight Son (Kyllachy) colt. The sale’s joint top lot comfortably... Read More