There was only one vendor from Tasmania at Inglis Easter and Grenville Stud smashed it out of the park when selling all four of their horses with a $1.3million Too Darn Hot (GB) colt delivering a mighty pinhook result.
Bart McCulloch and his family were overjoyed when their Too Darn Hot colt from La Magique sold to EA & WM Huglin / Clarke Bloodstock for seven figures, justifying their faith in the colt they purchased from the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale last year for $335,000.
He is the second foal of La Magique, a winning Magic Albert mare that traces back to an elite European female family bristling with champions such as Dr Devious, Dancing Rain, Maybe and Saxon Warrior.
“It’s our first Easter sale and we’re rapt to be here and we’ve got our our first million-dollar horse which well and truly surpassed our wildest expectations, so we're on cloud nine,” said Bart McCulloch.
“We purchased him for $335,000 at the Great Southern Sale last year, which was a lot of money for us, but we felt we had some lovely horses at home and a couple of those we bought here this week and got some excellent results.
“Never did we imagine we'd get a result like this.
“It's been a long yearling preparation season and the staff at home have done a fantastic job.
“Yearlings are stressful. Things go wrong and... You know, you lose sleep, and there's certainly been some sleepless nights and so we were just really excited to get a wonderful draft up here, and we wanted to celebrate it and enjoy the week.
“It'd be an amazing result. We thought if we could double our money, that would have been a dream result. To quadruple it is... It makes such a difference for us to be able to continue to invest in quality mares and weanlings going forward.”
Grenville Stud went close to the million dollar mark with their last horse through the ring, a Zoustar colt from Lomandra that sold for $900,000 to Mathland Pty Ltd.
He was pinhooked for $220,000 from the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale and is the first foal of a metro winning half-sister to Group I winner and sire Tagaloa.
Their four yearlings in total sold for $2.88million with an average of $720,000 - click to see them - … these guys are the toast of Tassie tonight!
