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I N T E R N AT I O N A L S A L E S

AUSTRALIA

Six months before the record-breaking
yearling fireworks at Tattersalls, the
Australian high mark for a yearling was
shattered by a half-brother to Black Caviar
purchased for A$5 million at the Inglis
Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.
The son of Redoute’s Choice is also
a brother to last year’s sale-topper, the
filly Belle Couture who was purchased
for A$2.6m. BC3 Thoroughbreds was
responsible for the purchase of both lots,
with Adam Sangster the underbidder on
the 2013 sale-topper.
The colt was the third Inglis sale-topper
out of the Desert Sun mare Helsinge
following the subsequent Group 1 winner
All Too Hard, by Casino Prince, who was
purchased for A$1,025,000 in 2011. But
by mid-November the yearling’s life hung
in the balance after he developed laminitis
following a spider bite while in his paddock.
The previous record of A$3m, which
had stood since 2007, was also surpassed by
a Fastnet Rock colt purchased by
Emirates Park for A$4m. The nine
seven-figure lots all helped boost
returns significantly, with aggregate
for the three-day Session 1 rising
by 16 per cent, the average by a near-32 per
cent and the median by 25 per cent.
Fastnet Rock was responsible for the
highest price of the Magic Millions Gold
Coast Yearling Sale, with Coolmore going to
A$1.35m for a colt out of a sister to multiple
Group 1 winner Super Elegant.
The dispersal of mining magnate
Nathan Tinkler’s bloodstock lit up the
Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale
in May, with Coolmore once again topping
proceedings with the progeny of Fastnet
Rock. On this occasion the operation went
to A$1.55m to secure the Group 1 Coolmore
Stud Stakes heroine Nechita.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al
Maktoum purchased the sale’s other
seven-figure lot, paying A$1.05m for the
regally bred Sadler’s Wells mare Endless,
an unraced sister to Powerscourt and a
half-sister to Frankel’s dam Kind.
A Manduro yearling out of the same
mare sold for A$500,000 during the
National Yearling Sale but was reportedly
bought back by Tinkler. The owner

Black Caviar sibling
sets scene for year
FASTNET ROCK PROGENY IN DEMAND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TASMAN
PLUS GAINS IN JAPAN AND SOUTH AFRICA BY SOPHIA BARNETT
drew universal condemnation, firstly by
withdrawing his stock from the Inglis
Easter sales at the last minute and then
by buying back many of his own horses at
Magic Millions, leading the latter company
to withdraw 19 of his horses from the sale.
NEW ZEALAND

Demand for progeny of Fastnet Rock was
sky-high on both sides of the Tasman in
2013, with Tom Magnier topping
t h e N Z B Pre m i e r Ye a r l i n g
Sale at Karaka when paying
NZ$1,975,000 for a colt by the
southern hemisphere super sire.
That price was NZ$225,000 more than
last year’s high mark, also for a Fastnet Rock
yearling, after 5