Deep Field colt tops Day 2 at Inglis Australian Weanling Sale.
Inglis is excited about what is to come later this week after its Australian Sale got off to a successful start via the weanling sale.
The 448-lot, two-day sale concluded on Tuesday with a number of key metrics up on last year.
A Deep Field colt who sold for $300,000 late in the session topped Day 2 and was one of 42 horses sell for at least $100,000, which is up 24 percent on 2022.
The sale grossed $12,961,500, which was up $42,000 on last year, while the average of $52,629 was six percent better than last year's $49,500.
The $30,000 median matched last year, with the clearance rate – 74 percent versus 76 percent – the only key metric down on 2022.
"Across the board there were some fantastic results and the metrics are reflective of a strong sale," Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said.
"As ever, we are hugely grateful for the support that we have received for the sale, from both vendors and buyers, particularly in the case of the buyers who travelled from overseas – New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, England, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore etc.
"There was a massive buying bench here and the reality is that we haven't been able to satisfy the demand amongst buyers looking for high-end weanlings, but I expect that is something we will be working hard to improve on for 2024."
The Deep Field colt who topped the day was sold by Fairhill Farm to AB Bloodstock. The bay colt is from the Eurozone mare Cribbage, who is a half-sister to Railway Stakes winner Good Project.
He was the second highest-priced lot of the sale behind the brother to Captivant, a son of Capitalist and Speedboat, who equalled the Australian Weanling Sale record of $625,000 on Day 1.
Day 2 also had the third, fourth and fifth highest-priced lots of the sale with a daughter of Savabeel and O'Reilly mare Tricia'o selling to Gary Harding for $280,000, $10,000 more than STAS Bloodstock paid for the Dundeel colt out of a half-sister to Aintnodeeldun.
Another Deep Field colt was the sale's other quarter-million-dollar weanling. The colt out of the I Am Invincible mare Californiasurprise was bought by Kaha Nui Farm for $255,000.
The Australian Weanling Sale was the first sale of a hectic week for Inglis, which will on Thursday night offer some of the world's most valuable mares via the Chairman's Sale with the Australian Broodmare Sale to follow on Friday.
