Billiondollarbaby Shines Light on Pinhook Successes

Breednet - Friday Apr 30

The win on Wednesday at Warwick Farm by the unbeaten Billiondollarbaby shone a light on next week’s Inglis Australian Weanling Sale from where the million dollar yearling was a profitable pinhook graduate.

Billiondollarbaby as a weanling

By I Am Invincible out of Group One winning mare Srikandi, Billiondollarbaby was sold as a weanling for $600,000 at the 2019 Australian Weanling Sale the day before her dam sold for $2million at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale in a profitable week for connections.

Returning in 2020 as a yearling in the Kitchwin Hills draft at the Inglis Easter Sale, she subsequently made $1million to Andrew Williams Bloodstock and continues to do the right thing by all involved with a perfect race record thus far of two starts, two wins from the Peter and Paul Snowden yard.

Billiondollarbaby as a yearling

The Australian Weanling Sale has been returning impressive results for pinhookers in recent years and with the red hot yearling market this year there’s bound to be an appetite for those investors again.

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Below are the top five pinhook results by profit for the last five years and show that success can be had across all price points in the market.

2020
Breeding Weanling Yearling Profit
Invader x Swan River (c) $75,000 $550,000 $475,000
Not a Single Doubt x Rhodamine (f) $280,000 $750,000 $470,000
Deep Field x Iceland Turf Belle (f) $100,000 $440,000 $340,000
Deep Field x Touch of Greatness (c) $105,000 $400,000 $295,000
Impending x Swiftly Red (c) $50,000 $240,000 $190,000
2019
I Am Invincible x Srikandi (f) $600,000 $1,000,000 $400,000
Divine Prophet x Tellora (c) $90,000 $375,000 $285,000
Pride of Dubai x Sandy Desert (c) $52,000 $200,000 $148,000
Lonhro x Respected (c) $46,000 $180,000 $134,000
Kermadec x Barinka (f) $50,000 $180,000 $130,000
2018
Star Witness x Madam Nash (f) $27,000 $350,000 $323,000
I Am Invincible x Bang On (c) $255,000 $550,000 $295,000
Rubick x Heart of Thrills (c) $60,000 $300,000 $240,000
Dundeel x Spinnawitch (c) $85,000 $300,000 $215,000
Charm Spirit x Enchanted Melody (c) $55,000 $250,000 $195,000
2017
Rubick x Ithinkso (f) $50,000 $250,000 $200,000
Toronado x Baize (c) $75,000 $175,000 $100,000
Star Witness x Peahen (f) $80,000 $180,000 $100,000
Declaration of War x Bullion Mansion (f) $21,000 $110,000 $89,000
Rubick x Tuscan Haze (f) $37,500 $100,000 $62,500
2016
Epaulette x Ta Ta Tatiana (f) $34,000 $240,000 $206,000
Stratum x Seamstress (c) $90,000 $280,000 $190,000
Dalakhani x Dane Blazer (c) $46,000 $230,000 $184,000
Choisir x Couredge (c) $150,000 $325,000 $175,000
Hinchinbrook x Acorker (c) $50,000 $200,000 $150,000

The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale takes place next Thursday, May 6

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