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$325,000 for Three-Quarter Brother to G1 Winner Skybird

Tara Madgwick - Monday February 9

A year ago at Flemington this Saturday, brilliant sprinter Skybird scored a dominant win in the Group I VRC Lightning Stakes and at the Inglis Classic Sale on Monday HP Thoroughbreds sold her three-quarter brother by Pierro for $325,000.

$325,000 Pierro colt from Real Desire.

A strongly built bay purchased by Lees Racing / Bahen Bloodstock, the colt is the fifth foal from Real Desire, who comes from the family of champion sire Snippets and Group winners Private Eye and Rediener.

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Skybird was purchased out of the HP Thoroughbreds Inglis Classic draft in 2022 for $110,000 by her trainer Mitch Freedman and has gone on to win $1.2million and Anthony Evans of HP Thoroughbreds hopes this colt can achieve similar success.

Real Desire produced a filly by Home Affairs last spring and was then covered by I Am Invincible.

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