Billed as the best of the best, the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale never fails to deliver in terms of Australia’s leading breeders offering up a sensational line up of bloodstock. With great vigour and competition in the market, we were delighted to come away with four exceptional yearlings for our owners, with their details below.
Lot 169 - I Am Invincible x Fireworks colt - $1,350,000
Our first purchase, for the JHB Colt Partnership, was Lot 169, the I Am Invincible colt out of Fireworks, offered by Segenhoe Stud on behalf of John & Deb Camilleri’s Fairway Thoroughbreds. He is very mature, well-grown, and looks very precocious, as you would expect given his pedigree. He is out of 2YO Sydney stakes winner Fireworks, who is also the dam of recent 2YO Melbourne stakes winner Millane, so she is off to a very strong start at stud. Fireworks comes from an excellent family, littered with top-class perfomers, and this cross has already produced the very smart 2YO Supreme Idea from limited runners, while Snitzel is also responsible for Golden Slipper winner Mossfun as a broodmare sire.
Lot 269 - Capitalist x Madame Cactus colt - $700,000
The second purchase for the JHB Colt Partnership was lot 269, the Capitalist colt out of Madame Cactus secured from Twin Hills Stud. He is a very strong colt, with great shape and a tremendous action - he is one of the best movers I have ever seen by his sire. He is a half-brother to a good class performer in the UK called Star Cactus, and his dam was a very smart performer in the USA, where she was a Group 2 winner on the competitive Keeneland track.
Lot 430 - Trapeze Artist x Smokin’ Alice colt - $380,000
Our final purchase for the JHB Colt Partnership was Lot 430, the Trapeze Artist colt out of Smokin’ Alice, secured from Edinburgh Park Stud. He is a very well bodied colt, with great shape and action. He is a half-brother to the very smart sprinter Eleven Eleven, who is the earner of over $2.8m on the track and comes from a very good family.
Lot 393 - I Am Invincible x Ruud Awakening filly - $1,700,000
We were also in action with the fillies, securing Lot 393, the I Am Invincible filly out of Ruud Awakening from Newgate Farm, offered on behalf of Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock. She is an absolute queen, and as good looking a filly to be offered at auction in recent years. She is a half-sister to recent Group 3 Pago Pago Stakes winner Rise of the Masses and out of Group 1 winning 2YO Ruud Awakening.