Gimcrack Stakes winner Brilliant Bisc topped the unreserved dispersal sale of renowned Upper Hunter Valley horse nursery Turangga Farm at Scone on Sunday when selling for $600,000.
The sale of Brilliant Bisc to Sir Owen Glenn's Go Bloodstock Australia smashed Scone's previous public auction record price of $120,000, set earlier this year by an I Am Invincible colt at the Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders' supported Scone Yearling Sale.
Brilliant Bisc's first foal was the highest priced yearling by Written Tycoon when sold to James Harron Bloodstock for $1 million at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale earlier this year. She has a 2016 colt by I Am Invincible and is believed to be in foal to Exosphere.
The unraced Encosta De Lago mare Private, offered in foal to Vancouver, was the second highest priced lot, selling for $360,000 to James Bester Bloodstock.
Private's second foal Believe Yourself won the Group II Sweet Embrace Stakes and finished fourth in the Group I Golden Slipper Stakes.
Stuart Ramsey, who has owned Turangga Farm since 2003, will continue to breed horses on the property but on a smaller scale.
Hong Kong Horse of the Year Able Friend, champion juvenile filly Headway, Group I-winning mare Sky Cuddle, and stallions Highly Recommended and Fighting Sun, are among the top class graduates from Turangga.
