Yulong Wear Vendor’s Hat in 2024

Tara Madgwick - Thursday April 18

The evolution of the Yulong brand has been of huge interest to the global bloodstock industry and particularly in Australia where they’ve been more active as sellers than buyers during the first part of this year, so we’re taking a closer look at Yulong wearing their vendor’s hat.

Last year they cut a swathe through yearling and breeding stock sales as buyers, but for this story we’ll stick to statistics relevant to the purchase and sale of yearlings.

In 2023, Yulong purchased 32 yearlings at Inglis Easter and Magic Millions for a combined total of $16.9million and this year they have wound that right back signing for just seven yearlings at Magic Millions under their alternate Highway Farm alias for $4.7million.

At the same time as reducing their purchase of yearlings, Yulong have ramped up their presence as vendors offering drafts at every major sale – Magic Millions Gold Coast, Inglis Classic, Inglis Premier, MM Adelaide and Inglis Easter.

This $900,000 Written Tycoon filly from Another Dollar was the highest priced yearling sold by Yulong in 2024.

They have sold 147 yearlings across these sales for a grand total of $21.9million and passed in just 24 giving them a clearance of 85%, so they are obviously committed to the cause.

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Yulong 2024 Yearling Sale Results

Sale

Number Sold

Aggregate

Magic Millions

32

$6.33million

Inglis Classic

16

$1.4million

Inglis Premier

60

$6.14million

MM Adelaide

20

$686,000

Inglis Easter

19

$7.3million

Total

147

$21.9million

The vast majority of yearlings they offered were by their own stallions with a break up of how that played out across all sales below and they also sold five by the world’s best stallion Frankel. There were also two by Pierata, although he only joined their stallion roster last year and these two yearlings were both purchased as weanlings last year and resold for virtually the same price.

Sire

Number Sold

Average

Written Tycoon

44

$244,090

Tagaloa (first season)

28

$56,665

Alabama Express

26

$113,326

Lucky Vega (IRE) (first season)

19

$61,526

Grunt

3

$28,000

Pierata

2

$100,000

Frankel

5

$430,000

Yulong sold a mix of colts and fillies with the Top 10 most expensive listed below and they were purchased by a wide variety of buyers.

Leading trainers Gai Waterhouse /Adrian Bott, Ciaron Maher and Annabel Neasham all purchased three Yulong yearlings each as did Te Akau boss David Ellis, while Tom Magnier was the only representative of the ‘stallion syndicates’ buying group to dip a toe in Yulong waters.

Sale

Sire

Dam

Sex

Purchaser

Price

Inglis Easter

Written Tycoon

Another Dollar

Filly

Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock

900000

Inglis Easter

Frankel

Key

Colt

Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott / Kestrel Thoroughbreds/ Mt Hallowell

800000

MM Gold Coast

Written Tycoon

In Her Time

Colt

Tom Magnier

750000

Inglis Easter

Ocean Park

Baggy Green

Filly

Glentree Thoroughbreds / Badgers Bloodstock

700000

Inglis Easter

Written Tycoon

Kooweerup

Filly

Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA)

650000

Inglis Premier

Written Tycoon

Talented

Colt

Moody Racing

525000

Inglis Easter

Frankel

Murasaki

Filly

KPW Bloodstock

500000

MM Gold Coast

Written Tycoon

Bidding War

Colt

Bruce Perry Bloodstock (BAFNZ)

500000

MM Gold Coast

Written Tycoon

Fallacy

Colt

Gandharvi Pty Ltd/Michael Freedman Racing

450000

Inglis Easter

Written Tycoon

Bleu Roche

Colt

Goldfinder Equine / Colin Equine / Blake Ryan Racing

425000

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