Belmont Bloodstock selected and purchased 4 Quality fillies at what was a record breaking Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
At the conclusion of Session I, the sale’s average was up 11% to $122,977, its median up 18% to $100,000, gross increasing by 2% to $52,880,000 and a “very healthy’’ clearance rate of 85%.
Lot 259 (I Am Invincible x Soorena) was the highest-price colt – as well as a Victorian record and the most expensive yearling sold in the world so far in 2017 – at $1.4million, and a $500,000 price tag for Lot 496 (All Too Hard x Fuhrnatic) made her the most expensive filly.
List of Belmont Bloodstock Purchases below;
Lot 62 (Reset x Medician Star Filly) $120,000 from Two Bays Farm
This filly is by Reset who has been a most successful sire of fillies with Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker, Star Of Giselle, Set Square, Set For Fame and Avienus just some of the stakeswinning fillies he has sired. A lovely sweet filly, she moved exceptionally well and has a lot of her dam sire Galileo about her. She heads west to Bob Peters who has enjoyed great success with Reset with Disposition.
Lot 64 (High Chaparral x Merryvale Filly) $140,000 from Erinvale
A most impressive filly who has a lot of dash about her. She is by High Chaparral from a Zabeel mare making her bred on a very successful cross which has produced exceptionally talented horses such as Dundeel & Alpine Eagle,
Lot 297 (Stratum x Trisara) $70,000 from Woodside Park
A daughter of the ill fated Stratum from a stakes placed Dehere mare from the pedigree of Circles Of Gold.
Lot 505 (Mossman x Golden Statue Filly) $47,500 from Vinery
A filly who looks set to run early, she is out of a sister to champion sprinter Hay List.