Inglis Weanling Sales Series catalogues released
The catalogues for July’s Inglis Weanling Sales Series have been released, with a first opportunity to purchase – at public auction – weanlings by exciting freshman sires like Russian Revolution (Snitzel), Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock), Caravaggio (Scat Daddy), Hellbent (I Am Invincible), Pariah (Redoute’s Choice), Highland Reel (Galileo) and Almanzor (Wootton Bassett), among others.
The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale at Sydney’s Riverside Stables will see 331 lots go through the Warwick Farm sales ring on July 8 before the Inglis Great Southern Sale at Melbourne’s Oaklands complex on July 12, which will feature 276 lots.
Graduates of the Australian Weanling Sale include dual The Everest (1200m) winner Redzel (Snitzel) as well as Group 1 winners Begood Toya Mother (Myboycharlie), Spright (Hinchinbrook) and Leicester (Wanted).
Among the highlight lots this year are a Hellbent colt out of regally-bred Group 2 winner Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice), a Shooting To Win (Northern Meteor) half-brother to recent Robert Sangster Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) conqueror Bella Vella (Commands) and a Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry) half-brother to this season’s Reisling Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) victor Dame Giselle (I Am Invincible).
Click here to view the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale catalogue.
Four days later, the Inglis Great Southern Sale will mark the switch from Sydney to Melbourne. It is an auction that has produced Group 1 winners like Gytrash (Lope De Vega), Extra Brut (Domesday) and Sopressa (So You Think) in recent years.
Click here to view the Inglis Great Southern Sale catalogue.
“We’re really very pleased with how the catalogues for both the Australian Weanling Sale and the Great Southern Sale have come together,” Sebastian Hutch, Inglis general manager of bloodstock and marketing, told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday.
“Under the circumstances, to be able to accumulate nearly 600 foals across the two catalogues is very satisfying. There looks to be good strength and depth across both catalogues, a number of very well-related foals, the progeny of the best-proven stallions, the most progressive stallions and the most commercially appealing stallions too.
“We’ve got first season stallions across each sale, there’s great depth and strength among the vendors which is very pleasing too.”
Hutch believes that the timing of both sales, between Easter Round 2 and the Scone Yearling Sale on July 5 and the Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale on July 16, is a positive as well.
“The scheduling of our sales just appears to be working nicely for people,” Hutch said. “It’s going to be a busy number of days across that period, but we’re confident that the scheduling is something that can work really well for both vendors and for buyers and that’s proven by the quality of foal that we’ve been entrusted with.
“We’re really very much looking forward to it. The sequence of sales is going to present a challenge in terms of the volume of work to be done over a short period of time. We have a strong team and we are well-prepared for it. Hopefully we can enjoy a constructive period over that month before we start to plan for the yearling sales next year.”
Hutch believes that there will still be a market for weanlings in the current environment with plenty of potential pinhooking opportunities available.
“It’s very hard to gauge where the market is likely to sit at this stage,” he said. “As is demonstrated by the success of the graduates out of each of the sales, there is a tremendous opportunity at these sales for end users to buy quality racehorses of the future. Similarly, it’s an important opportunity for pinhookers to accumulate quality stock with the 2021 yearling sales series in mind.
“Irrespective of the challenges that we face over the next number of months, there are just going to be people who want to be involved in the yearling sales series next year. The weanling sales are an important part of identifying stock that can be targeted towards those sales. As has been evidenced year after year, time and time again, there are opportunities through these sales for people to invest and – with diligent work and some luck – make a significant profit into the yearling sales next year.”