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Group 1-winning sprinter Reserve Bank has been sold to Botty's Bloodstock during the inaugural Inglis Bull Ring Sale. The son of Capitalist won the G1 The Goodwood. "I thought it was a great opportunity to secure a horse of his calibre," Aaron Bott said. "Reserve Bank was an outstanding racehorse with genuine top-class speed and was a Group 1 winner at three in open company, which is a rare accomplishment. "He possesses an impressive physique and is a grandson of influential sires Written Tycoon and Fastnet Rock. "I can't disclose...

by TTR AusNZ/Dane McLeod The Inglis Bull Ring, a new concept aimed at attracting high-end private sales, was launched by Inglis on Thursday. The new platform has been designed as a one-horse, private-style online sale, mirroring the way many high-value private deals are traditionally conducted behind closed doors, but now facilitated within the Inglis framework. "In real simple terms, I suppose I could probably sum it up in one line," said Inglis Digital business manager Nick Melmeth. "It's a product that allows high end stock to be traded online in...

by Dane McLeod/TTR AusNZ The action came to a crescendo late in the Inglis Chairman's Sale on Thursday night, with three of the last five lots selling for seven figures. The best was saved for last when Coolmore Stud prevailed over Yulong to secure G2 Reisling Stakes winner Chayan for a new sales record of A$5.6 million. At A Glance Clearance for the Inglis Chairman's Sale dropped to 73% (87%), and the aggregate was A$39.085 million. 2025 (A$54.4 million) and 2024 (A$35.3 million). From a larger catalogue, 79 horses sold...

The 2026 edition of the Inglis Chairman's Sale finished with a bang when Chayan (I Am Invincible), the final lot to go through the ring at Riverside Stables, sold to Coolmore Australia's Tom Magnier for A$5.6 million, a new record price for the sale. The previous record for the Chairman's Sale was held by the multiple Group 1 winner Bella Nipotina (Pride Of Dubai), who was sold to her breeder and part-owner Michael Christian of Longwood Thoroughbred Farm for A$4.2 million last year. The new record also sees Chayan become...

Inglis will conduct just one physical breeding stock sale in 2026, with declining demand for live broodmare auctions prompting a decisive shift to digital. The company's breeding stock session will now operate as Day 2 of the April (late) Online Sale, replacing both the Australian Broodmare Sale and Great Southern Broodmare Sale. The change leaves the elite Inglis Chairman's Sale as Inglis' only live breeding stock auction, focused on the top end of the commercial market. Bidding for the restructured broodmare session will close Thursday evening on the Inglis Digital...

The Chris Waller-trained three-year-old filly Quinceanera (Pierro), a daughter of the great Winx who made headlines when selling for a record-breaking A$10 million to Debbie Kepitis's Woppitt Bloodstock at the 2024 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, has been retired without making it to the racetrack. Owner Woppitt Bloodstock confirmed the decision via X, stating, "We made the tough decision to retire her following veterinary advice and in consultation with Chris Waller." Quinceanera was the star attraction of the 2024 Inglis Easter sale, where a dramatic bidding duel saw American owner John...

By Kit Gow/Dane McLeod/TTR AusNZ The 2026 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale concluded on Monday with another day of dazzling results, hugely successful pinhooks, and a noticeable dominance by super sire Extreme Choice, who averaged a record-breaking $1.56 million across the sale. At A Glance The clearance rate for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale decreased to 76% (86%), and the aggregate decreased to $145.7 million, below 2025 ($150 million) and 2024 ($151.8 million). 314 horses sold this year compared to 332 in 2025. The average lifted to a record...

by Kit Gow/Dane McLeod/TTR AusNZ The 2026 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale saw a strong enough start on day one, with eight standout yearlings reaching the coveted A$1-million mark, including a A$3-million Extreme Choice colt that topped the day. At A Glance Clearance for day one of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale was down to 76% (79% in 2025), while the aggregate increased to A$66.08 million, ahead of 2025 (A$63 million) and 2024 (A$63.3 million). 149 horses sold this year compared to 129 in 2025. The average dropped to A$452,603...

The top spot on the second day of selling at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale belonged to a son of the high flying Too Darn Hot (GB), offered as Lot 499 by Gilgai Farm, who provided a number of the top lots on Monday.  The dark brown colt is out of Baveno (Street Cry {Ire}), a winning daughter of G1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Neroli (Viscount) and a half-sister to Group 3-performed Enfleurage (Exceed And Excel). This is also the family of sire Benfica and 10-time winning black-type...

A Snitzel yearling colt out of Australian wondermare Winx (Street Cry) has been withdrawn from the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. He sustained a setback in his prep which will prevent him from taking part in the auction. "The welfare of our beautiful colt is of paramount importance to us and the veterinary advice is that he will need a period of time to recover appropriately from his setback," part-owner Peter Tighe said. "We will give him all the time that he needs and thus he will be unable to take...

by Renee Geelen/TTR AusNZ Australia's best-credentialled yearlings have been catalogued for the 2026 edition of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, with 472 lots heading through the ring on March 29 and 30. With 11 yearlings by Extreme Choice and the Snitzel colt from champion mare Winx as headline acts, Inglis is equally thrilled about the depth of the catalogue. Across the catalogue, 259 lots (55%) are the progeny of or siblings to stakes winners, with 80 of those being a half-sibling to or out of a Group 1 winner....

A breeding right in Darley's Street Boss stallion Anamoe will be offered in the Inglis Digital February (Early) Online Sale. The nine-time Group 1 winner and first-season sire is hitting on all cylinders with his first yearlings. A total of 31 sold for a gross of A$14.5 million and averaged A$469,000, with a 100% clearance rate. His top lot was an A$1.1-million son of listed winner Secret Trail (Denman), who sold to Ciaron Maher Bloodstock and David Redvers Bloodstock in partnership. The bay stood for A$110,000 in 2025. "The way...