The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale in Sydney next week on May 5 and 6 features a catalogue of 500 lots, but only one entry is a half-brother to a Group I winning 2YO in 2024 by a highly commercial G1 stallion, whose stocks are on the rise.
Hayasugi was famously purchased from the Fairhill Farm draft at this sale in 2022 for $47,500 by James Bester Bloodstock / Rathosheen Bloodstock / C Mo and quickly emerged as a superstar juvenile.
Trained by Clinton McDonald, Hayasugi won the Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview, Group II MRC Blue Diamond Prelude and the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes in rapid succession.
She returned at three to run second in the Group I MVRC Moir Stakes and raced only one more time before a tragic illness cut short her brief life.
He is the sixth foal of unraced Commands mare China Road, who has had four foals to race and three are winners, while his sire Harry Angel goes from strength to strength with his service fee at Darley for this spring raised to $88,000.
“Hayasugi was a remarkable filly with the best temperament, so laid back and easy to deal with,” recalled Mike O’Donnell of Fairhill Farm.
“I saw Clinton McDonald interviewed one day and he was saying she was ‘bombproof’ and that’s an accurate description and this colt by Harry Angel is the same.
“When we were taking his pictures the other day and we were asking him to move his feet here and there it was like he just knew what to do. He’s a colt that wants to work with you.”
Fairhill Farm will offer 22 weanlings by 14 different sires including three by leading first season sire Home Affairs, three by leading second season sire Farnan as well as youngsters by proven G1 sires Harry Angel (IRE), Pride of Dubai, So You Think, Tassort, Royal Meeting (IRE) and Toronado (IRE).
“All of our weanlings will be offered either at this sale or at the Great Southern Sale in Victoria and they are of a similar standard, but we selected the ones to go down there as being more appealing to the Victorian market on pedigree,” O’Donnell said.
“We bring them to the market to sell and are thrilled when purchasers get a good result whether that be in the sale ring as yearlings or on the racetrack in the future.”
Occasionally Fairhill Farm will pass a weanling in and one of those was the Street Boss (USA) filly from Fee Dansante (IRE) that subsequently sold for $800,000 at Inglis Easter in 2025 to Jamie McCalmont Bloodstock / Marcstown when offered in the Willow Park draft.
Named Seminal, she remains the highest priced yearling by Street Boss ever sold and is in work with Tom Charlton.
“She had a modest $120,000 reserve and we were surprised when she didn’t make that as we could see on type and pedigree she had the potential to become so much more and it was nice to be vindicated,” O’Donnell added.
Fairhill Farm will offer a colt by So You Think from Fee Dansante (IRE) at this sale as Lot 256.
From the second last crop of foals by much missed So You Think, the sire of 11 G1 winners, he is the fourth foal of Fee Dansante, an unraced half-sister to SW Salocin who traces in tail female line to celebrated matriarch Alegretta, the dam of Arc winning blue hen Urban Sea.
It’s one of the great female families in the world that has given us champion sires Galileo and Sea the Stars, so he’s a colt with a big pedigree that could take him a long way.
The So You Think x Fastnet Rock nick has produced four stakes-winners, all of them Group winners headed by G1 winner Palaisipan.
