A wrap of the second day of selling at this year’s Inglis Premier Sale
Two half-million-dollar colts late in the session were the banner lots of Monday's second day of this year's Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Andrew Williams paid $560,000 for a colt by Starspangledbanner to assume the mantle as the day's top lot from the Zoustar colt who sold to Annabel Neasham for $500,000 around 30 minutes earlier.
Neasham's buy, which came from the Blue Gum Farm draft, is out of the Lonhro mare Jestajingle, who is a half-sister to Jukebox and has had one foal to race; Group 3 McNeil Stakes winner and Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes runner-up Bruckner (Snitzel).
Neasham's sales and marketing manager Alix Turpin said the trainer was taken by the colt when she visited Inglis's Oaklands Junction property for inspections late last week.
"We're really chuffed with this one," Turpin said. "Annabel came down to the complex on Thursday, she saw him for herself and he was just a standout.
"He paraded so professionally, is from a great farm, is exceptionally well bred and we've got clients who are really excited to get involved in him."
Williams' biggest buy of the sale to date, who was sold by Rosemont Stud, is also from a Lonhro mare – Kylix – who is a half-sister multiple Listed-winning Canny Lad mare Barbed.
Monday's two top lots headlined a day that saw $24,654,000 change hands, taking the sale gross to just over $52 million with horses selling at an average of $139,475.
The Day 2 clearance rate of 73 percent was down on Day 1's 81 percent for an overall figure of 77 percent with the median sitting at $100,000.
