Wootton Bassett Leads Inglis Easter First Season Sires

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday April 9

The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale tends to be dominated by the established champion sires, but there was still a selection of youngsters by first season sires with Wootton Bassett (GB) again proving super popular with buyers.

As we have talked about before, Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett is first season in Australia, but has proven his stripes in the Northern Hemisphere where he is an elite G1 sire, so not surprisingly he has been treated a little differently by the local market.

He had 22 yearlings average $391,364 with his top seller the colt from Champion 3YO Filly Sunlight that made $1.4million for Coolmore when purchased by Paul Moroney Bloodstock / C Bruggeman.

$1.4million Wootton Bassett (GB) colt from Sunlight.

$1.4million Wootton Bassett (GB) colt from Sunlight.

A lot is going to be expected of Wootton Bassett as he is a truly versatile sire that can get very good juveniles in addition to his classic miler types and given the sort of mares he has covered down here the profile would suggest by this time next year he may well be hotter than he is right now.

Fitting the more traditional mould of Australia speed sires are Farnan and Ole Kirk, who have been well received at all the sales this year and kept up the good work again at Riverside Stables.

$725,000 Farnan filly from Gypsy Robin (USA).

$725,000 Farnan filly from Gypsy Robin (USA).

Top seller for Farnan was Kia Ora Stud’s gorgeous filly from imported Group II winner Gypsy Robin (USA) that sold for $725,000. A half-sister to Group I winner Wild Ruler and Group III winner Pavitra, she was bought by Ladbrokes Racing Club/ Newgate Bloodstock.

$400,000 Ole Kirk colt from Cool Passion.

$400,000 Ole Kirk colt from Cool Passion.

Top seller for Ole Kirk was a colt from Group III winner Cool Passion that made $400,000 for Widden Stud when bought by Hong Kong based buyer E Yeung.

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$440,000 Bivouac filly from Arianne (NZ).

$440,000 Bivouac filly from Arianne (NZ).

Bivouac has been a rung below his comparative price peers at sales this year, but had a good result with Widden Stud’s filly from Arianne (NZ) making $440,000 when bought by RMA Bloodstock / Satomi Oka Bloodstock.

Cambridge Stud shuttler Hello Youmzain (Fr) had good results at Karaka earlier this year. He had only one yearling in the sale, but the Trelawney Stud bred and consigned colt was a bit special being the half-brother to dual Group I winning sire Grunt and Group II winner Zayydani out of top producer Ruqqaya, a half-sister to Cox Plate winning sire Ocean Park.

$400,000 Hello Youmzain (Fr) colt from Ruqqaya.

$400,000 Hello Youmzain (Fr) colt from Ruqqaya.

He sold to Linsay Park Racing / Cambridge Stud for $400,000.

King’s Legacy held his own with four yearlings offered and three of them sold, the colt from Savabeel mare Orchids (NZ) making $220,000 for Bhima Thoroughbreds when bought by Anthony Freedman Racing / Byron Rogers and his other two yearlings also both sold for $200,000.

$220,000 King's Legacy colt from Orchids (NZ).

$220,000 King's Legacy colt from Orchids (NZ).

That’s a good return representing over six times his 2021 service fee of $33,000.

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