Strong trade at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale this week produced some great pinhook results with Dean Harvey’s Baystone Farm producing two of the three best sales.
The sale-topping Dundeel colt from Lady Moura smashed it out of the park for Harvey and his team when selling for $750,000 to Ciaron Maher Bloodstock / Group 1 Bloodstock.
He was sourced from the Arrowfield draft at Magic Millions Yearling Sale for $210,000 and is from the family of champion filly Alinghi.
The second highest priced 2YO was the Deep Field colt from Alderney offered by Nolen Racing that sold for $550,000 to Anton Koolman Bloodstock after producing the fastest breeze up gallop of the sale.
He was first offered as a weanling at the 2021 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale where he made $90,000 for Glastonbury Farm when bought by Hopetoun Lodge Pty Ltd, the colt from Alderney was then re-offered at Inglis Premier where he caught the eye of Tal Nolen, who secured him for $120,000.
No Nay Never (USA) had his first Australian Group I winner on Wednesday when Madame Pommery won the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas and he also delivered a big win for Baystone Farm with his colt from Boomex selling for $460,000 to Anton Koolman Bloodstock Pty Ltd.
He was a modest $80,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Emirates Park draft for Baystone and is a half-brother to Group III winner Marboosha. Interestingly, he is bred on the exact same cross as Madame Pommery, who is also from a daughter of Exceed and Excel.
First season sire The Autumn Sun achieved a big return for Cheltenham Stables with their colt from Sopraffina selling for $550,000 to HK based Golden River as agent.
He was sourced from the Pencarrow Stud draft from Karaka Book 1 for $200,000 and claims 'Cups Queen' Ethereal as his third dam.
