Today’s Australian Broodmare Sale concluded a record-breaking Sydney Breeding Stock Sales Series which ended with unprecedented metrics across the board with the highlight today a mare sold in foal to exciting young sire Ole Kirk.
On a big week at Riverside:
*A record gross of $77,060,150 has been traded between the Australian Weanling Sale, Chairman’s Sale and Australian Broodmare Sale, smashing through the previous record of $65,973,000 set in 2023
*The Australian Weanling Sale resulted in a record gross ($19,309,150) and record individual top price ($775,000), reasserting itself as the leading foal sale in the country
*The Chairman’s Sale also saw extraordinary growth and a series of outstanding results; a record gross ($54,430,000), record average ($706,883), record top price ($4.2m) and record number of $1m+ lots (14).
Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch was ecstatic with the success of the week.
“To gross over $11m more than the record for this week of sales is really quite incredible, let alone the fact turnover increased $17.5m year-on-year off what was a very successful series of sales last year too,’’ Hutch said.
“It really has been a week we dream about – fabulous catalogues, enthusiastic buyers, happy vendors and a great spectacle all round.
“The amount of people who have said that Thursday night’s Chairman’s Sale was the best horse sale they’d ever been to in their lives, it’s very satisfying for the entire Inglis team who work exceptionally hard to ensure our clients have a memorable experience when doing business with us.
“A mention must go to the connections of both Bella Nipotina and Amelia’s Jewel, to have been entrusted by them to sell their darling mares was truly a great honour and to achieve special results with them both was something our whole team got incredible satisfaction from.
“I can’t stress enough how grateful we are to all the vendors, breeders, owners and buyers who have supported the week and made such positive results possible, it’s something we don’t take lightly and we are looking forward to working with vendors to achieve more outstanding results through the balance of 2025 and into 2026.’’
Today’s Australian Broodmare Sale top lot was the young mare Zelify (Snitzel), in foal to leading first season sire Ole Kirk.
The Lime Country Thoroughbreds-offered mare (pictured) was purchased by Omen Thoroughbreds for $280,000.
“It’s been a great week for us,’’ Lime Country’s Jo Griffin said.
“This mare today, we brought her to this sale to stand out and she certainly did that.
“She was part of our trading partnership and unfortunately that’s the way it is, we have to roll them through as part of the agreement every two to three years. We’ve got a lovely Pierro filly out of her that we’ll be offering [next] year.
“Earlier in the week we sold all our foals and we only brought good foals here. I’m very happy. Being in NSW, for us personally with the foals we like to keep them here for travel purposes and ease on them and we were well rewarded.’’
To enquire about a passed in lot from today’s Australian Broodmare Sale or any of this week’s sales, contact Sinead Flannery on 0416 243 696.
The Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series now heads to Melbourne for the Great Southern Sale, to be held at Oaklands on June 12 and 13.
Great Southern Entries must close no later than 9am Monday.
To enter CLICK HERE.
Buyers’ immediate attention now switches to Inglis Digital, for which the May (Early) Online Sale went live for bidding earlier this afternoon.
A total of 531 entries have been finalised for the sale – 195 broodmares, 194 racehorses (102 race fillies), 59 racehorse shares, 51 yearlings, 27 weanlings, 4 breeding rights and 1 unbroken stock.
The catalogue is headlined by a share in the world’s hottest young stallion Extreme Choice, two breeding rights in leading first season sire Bivouac and Summer Surf – a half sister to G1 Golden Slipper winner and popular young stallion Farnan – offered in foal to Toronado.
The final countdown of bidding for the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online Sale begins from 10am Wednesday.
To view the catalogue, arrange credit or participate in the auction CLICK HERE.
