It was a
'Snitzel-feast' during the third session of the
Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale on Tuesday with the
two top priced mares both offered in foal to Snitzel and the third highest priced being his stakes-winning daughter Golconda.
SNITZEL - Super Sire
Day Three featured strong trade where stud masters and part-owners of freshmen sires competed against new bloodstock investors and the year’s leading yearling sale vendors.
"It is great to see a vast variety of buyers here, from stallion syndicates to new international players and the top Easter Yearling Sale vendors all investing in breeding stock,” pointed out Jonathan D’Arcy, Inglis National Bloodstock Director.
"Young stallions such as
Vancouver, Dissident, Deep Field, Akeed Mofeed and are all due to cover some top quality mares out of this week’s sale, which is best placed to ensure buyers can get in to the popular stallions before the Book Full signs go up,” added D’Arcy.
276 mares and race fillies have been purchased over the last two days at an average of $47,526, with five lots selling for $300,000 or more today.
The top priced broodmare today was
Phantom Queen (Lot 490) bought by
Julia Ritchie’s Bangaloe Stud. Offered from the draft of
Arrowfield Stud, the mare, which is carrying a three-quarter-relation to Group 1 winner Sweet Idea, was secured for $440,000.
Ritchie, who is part-owner of two-year-old sensation
Vancouver, is looking forward to supporting the colt when he retires to Coolmore Stud in 2016 saying, "I’m working on building up my broodmare band ready for when Vancouver hits the ground next year.”
"I liked how she carried light for a pregnant mare. I don’t like them to be too coarse, she was very refined, and in foal to Snitzel (the sire of her Group 1-winning half-sister Sweet Idea) it was a no-brainer,” Ritchie said.
Sonoma - Sold in foal to Pierro for $205,000
Ritchie’s Bangaloe Stud also signed for Sonoma (Lot 565). Offered by Coolmore Stud as agent for Dynamic Syndications, Sonoma is a three-quarter sister to Gr3 Winner
Safeguard and a daughter of Stakes Winner
Rio Osa – herself a half-sister to Gr1 Winners
Denman and Preserve and to the dam of Gr2 Winner
Soul. Sonoma is carrying a foal by
Pierro and was purchased for
$205,000.
John Muir’s Milburn Creek Stud outbid Australia’s newest international players
Spendthrift Farm to the tune of $420,000 to secure Red Dress Marley (Lot 516) that was offered in foal to Snitzel. Muir’s purchase was to add to his high quality boutique broodmare band.
"She is a young well-related stakes-placed mare with plenty of upside, and in foal to
Snitzel. Milburn have obviously had tremendous success with that sire,” alluding to the fact that Muir sold the sale topper (
Snitzel x Admirelle) at the recent Inglis Easter Yearling Sale for
$2,200,000.
Topping the Select Race Fillies and Mares today was Group 1 placed three-year-old
Golconda (Lot 582). The third-placed runner of the Group 1 VRC Oaks was secured on behalf of China Horse Club from the draft of Eliza Park International for $400,000.
"She’s a nice mare, we bought her in partnership with Newgate so she’ll go straight to stud and will be supporting
Dissident this year.”
Dissident is set to stand his first season at
Newgate Farm alongside other freshmen sires
Wandjina and Deep Field, the latter of which is set to cover the top producing mare Johan’s Toy that was purchased yesterday at the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale.