Best Ever Inglis Easter for Snitzel

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday April 8

Arrowfield Stud finished Inglis Easter as the leading vendor by aggregate and underpinning their success was the insatiable demand for their champion sire Snitzel, who might be turning 23 this year but has just posted his best ever results at this sale.

Click for the Breednet Sales Centre with all the sale data.

Breednet stallion pages offer a wealth of data for all sires and it hasn’t taken long this morning to pull together a snapshot of the sales results of this remarkable son of Redoute’s Choice, who is currently the leading sire in the country by stakes-winners (14). Click here to see his full page with interactive data.

Paul Messara and Tom Magnier like doing buisness!

Snitzel had seven million dollar yearlings at this sale and Coolmore’s Tom Magnier bought three of them including the top priced $2.7million colt from Ms Bad Behavior (Can).

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Let’s take a look back at his career in terms of sales and service fees.

Year

Inglis Easter

Magic Millions

Service Fee

2025

$718,387

$765,556

?

2024

$518,056

$522,206

$247,500

2023

$625,588

$492,500

$247,500

2022

$717,708

$521,184

$220,000

2021

$560,455

$453,556

$165,000

2020

$473,500

$312,381

$165,000

2019

$537,292

$367,500

$220,000

2018

$528,902

$483,788

$220,000

2017

$537,500

$331,571

$176,000

2016

$438,000

$329,688

$110,000

2015

$378,710

$243,488

$88,000

2014

$351,818

$152,857

$71,500

2013

$335,000

$186,389

$49,500

2012

$142,500 (2 in Book 2)

$168,182

$33,000

2011

$186,667

$177,000

$27,500

2010

$145,714

$121,591

$27,500

2009

$193,750

$86,500

$22,000

2008

-

-

$33,000

2007

-

-

$33,000

2006

-

-

$33,000 First season

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