$400,000 Wootton Bassett Colt Sets Inglis Classic Pace

Tara Madgwick - Sunday February 9

Demand is high for colts from the second Australian crop of Wootton Bassett (GB) and it surfaced at Inglis Classic on Sunday when Willow Park Stud sold the top lot of the session for $400,000.

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An athletic brown colt that very much fit the image of what you expected to see, he was purchased by McEvoy Mitchell Racing / Belmont Bloodstock and is a half-brother to two winners including good metro winner Cadetship from unraced blueblood  So You Think mare Elegant Air.

From a well proven elite female family that has produced Group I winners over a variety of distances, Elegant Air is a half-sister to Group I ATC Champagne stakes winner Go Indy Go and two more Group III winners Air Assault and Essay Raider.

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Further back and the family features Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed, the dam of Japanese Group II winner Cosmo Kuranda, and the Golden Slipper winners Ha Ha and Rory’s Jester.

$400,000 Wootton Bassett (GB) colt from Elegant Air.

Aside from the obvious fact Wootton Bassett is one of the hottest sires in the world right now coming off a year in which he was 2024 Champion European 2YO Sire, there is also plenty of merit in this colt being from a daughter of So You Think, who is increasingly making a mark as a broodmare sire.

So You Think mares have produced eight stakes-winners including last Saturday’s Inglis Millennium winner Rivellino and they also include Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2YO Fireburn as well as European Group I winner Puchkine, who is by Starspangledbanner.

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