The catalogue for the 2025 Classic Yearling Sale – potentially the best value yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere – the catalogue is now available online.
Comprising 805 yearlings, the diversity through the catalogue will ensure there is something for everybody at Riverside on February 9-11.
There are 106 individual sires represented, with their progeny to be offered through 73 vendors.
All the expected big gun stallions are represented such as:
Snitzel, I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon, Zoustar, Too Darn Hot, Extreme Choice, Wootton Bassett, Alabama Express, Ole Kirk, Exceed and Excel, Farnan, Dundeel, Savabeel, So You Think, The Autumn Sun, etc.
As well, there are 18 first season sires: (alphabetically) Aclaim, Acrobat, Captivant, Extreme Warrior, Home Affairs, Jonker, Noverre, Palace Pier, Pinatubo, Portland Sky, Profiteer, St Mark’s Basilica, Standout, Stay Inside, Sword of State, Tiger of Malay, Victor Ludorum and Wild Ruler.
Of the catalogued lots, 669 are BOBS eligible (83%) while others are VOBIS Silver and QTIS.
There are many other reasons why buyers should have the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale amongst their priorities for 2025, noting the following;
* There have been 21 Gr1-winning graduates of the Classic Sale since 2018, 12 of whom could have been bought for $100,000 or less.
* A total of 30 Classic Sale graduates have won $1m or more in prizemoney in Australia since 2018.
* There have been 82 Australian Stakes winners of 135 Stakes races (including 42 Group winners) that could have been bought for $100,000 or less from Classic.
* In recent years, Classic graduates have won races like the Gr1 The Everest, Gr1 Golden Slipper, Gr1 Blue Diamond, Gr1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Gr1 Melbourne Cup, Gr1 Randwick Guineas, Gr1 VRC Derby, Gr1 Lightning Stakes, The Golden Gift, Inglis Millennium, etc.
Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch urged buyers to “do themselves a favour’’ and get their eyes on the catalogue and to participate in the sale.
“If people are serious about finding value in an extraordinarily competitive Australasian bloodstock market, the Classic Sale never fails to deliver,’’ Hutch said.
“For a sale where the average price of an Australian Stakes winner since 2018 is a little more than $110,000, the quality of horses that continue to come out of this sale defies expectation, year after year.
“Consider results from the sale over the past 12 months alone. A multiple G1-winning mare so good she was acclaimed the best of her sex in the world in Pride Of Jenni, a dual G1-winning colt of the famed Doncaster Mile in Celestial Legend and a 3YO colt in Veight so good he won no less than the G1 George Ryder at WFA, a trio acquired at the Classic Sale for just $540,000 that are now worth many, many multiples of that.
“The knack of the sale for producing top-class horses is why it is so popular with so many buyers – think back to the likes of Choisir, I Am Invincible, Extreme Choice, In Her Time, Brazen Beau, Hellbent, Vow And Declare and Castelvecchio, to more recent stars like Classique Legend, Icebath, Pippie, Shadow Hero, Communist, Palaisipan, Coco Sun and others."
All horses offered at the 2025 Classic Yearling Sale are eligible for the lucrative Inglis Race Series.