First Season Sires at Inglis Easter

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday April 9

Coolmore based Home Affairs has made some history this year in topping both the Magic Millions Yearling Sale and the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and he’s done it with two youngsters that both sold for $3million or more.

Home Affairs has been a sale ring favourite this year.

Coolmore sold a filly from Champion 3YO Filly Sunlight at the Gold Coast for $3.2million to Japanese buyer Mitsu Nakauchida and in Sydney they sold a colt from dual Group I winner Shout the Bar for $3million to Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott / Kestrel Thoroughbreds. The filly has already been exported to Japan and the colt is a horse that everyone will be able to follow closely.

Inglis Easter sale-topper for 2025.

There have only ever been nine yearlings to sell in Australia for $3million or more and the only other sire to produce two of them is Redoute’s Choice, so Home Affairs is operating in lofty company.

The champion son of I Am Invincible topped the averages at Inglis Easter for first season sires, just ahead of Newgate Farm’s Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, whose best result came with Silverdale Farm’s colt from Schwesterherz that sold for $650,000 to James Harron Bloodstock Colt Partnership / Tony Fung Colts.

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First Season Sires at Inglis Easter

Sire

Sold

Avge

Agg

Fee 2022

Home Affairs

22

395909

8710000

110,000

Stay Inside

10

332000

3320000

77,000

St Mark's Basilica

6

307500

1845000

44,000

Acrobat

2

290000

580000

13,750

Pinatubo

6

288333

1730000

55,000

Captivant

2

210000

420000

27,500

Wild Ruler

2

210000

420000

38,500

Special mention should be made of Palace Pier (GB), who had one yearling sell, but it was a good one with his filly from Miravalle sold by Arrowfield Stud for $475,000 to Triple Crown Syndications.

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