Inglis yearling auction jam-packed full of class with prediction sales will hit new heights
Promise of an ‘extraordinary strong’ catalogue is certain to have prospective buyers licking their lips in the lead-up to the 2020 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
The 2020 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale will offer siblings to Mystic Journey, Extra Brut and Oohood, as well as prized progeny of northern hemisphere superstars Galileo and Frankel.
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Inglis bloodstock manager Simon Vivian described the 784-lot catalogue for the March 1-3 sale as “extraordinarily strong”.
The Victorian sale has produced 13 individual Group 1 winners since 2018, including Santa Ana Lane, Nature Strip, Beat The Clock, Hey Doc, Scales Of Justice and Kenedna.
The catalogue features 120 sires. Among them are I Am Invincible, Snitzel, Redoute’s Choice, Exceed And Excel, Not A Single Doubt, Zoustar, Dundeel, Written Tycoon, Pierro, Fastnet Rock and Sebring.
It also features a colt by world champion sire Galileo, his only yearling to be offered at public auction in the southern hemisphere next year.
Three of champion European stallion Frankel’s progeny will be offered.
Some 35 first-season sires will be represented, including Capitalist, American Pharoah, Frosted, Flying Artie, Astern and Maurice.
The Premier session of the sale will run on March 1-2 and the inaugural Showcase session, “with a particular focus on the value end of the market”, on March 3.
“We are very grateful for the wonderful support of the Premier Sale again this year, particularly by Victorian vendors,’’ Vivian said.
“The success of graduates that have come out of the Premier Sale in recent years is staggering, from Blue Diamond winners to Caulfield Cup winners, champion sprinters to middle-distance stars.
“Seven of the 13 Group 1-winning Premier graduates since 2018 were sold for $100,000 or less, which further serves to highlight the sale.”
Yearlings at the Premier Sale are eligible for the $8 million Inglis Race Series, which includes the $2 million Millennium for two-year-olds and the $1 million Sprint for three-year-olds.
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