It was a record breaking night for popular online auction site bloodstockauction with thousands of people across the country and beyond logging in.
Which resulted
in the www.bloodstockauction.com's best-ever broodmare result, the lightly raced mare Readycatgo
the subject of great support with 154 bids seeing her change hands for
$210,600.
The four-year-old - who fetched $180,000 as a yearling - is a daughter of champion sire More Than Ready and the outstanding broodmare Faster Pussycat, a stakes placed Flying Spur mare who has been represented by seven winners from as many to race.
And amongst that impressive tally are the stakes winners Gai's Choice (already dam of the Listed winner I Like It Easy), Atmospherical and Peron.
Readycatgo's grandam Presina was three times successful at stakes level and she is also the second dam of the Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate winner Eagle Falls, the Gr.3 Hawkesbury Cup winner Fabrizio and the Gr.3 Maybe Mahal Stakes winner Mahara.
This is a family brimming with black type with its other members including the champion sire Marscay and the Melbourne Cup hero Subzero.
And there is more to come with Readycatgo's dam Faster Pussycat still at stud, last year served by the high class sprinter Supido having produced a Star Witness filly in late October.
Readycatgo's new owners can be excited about the possibilities of this family with her female relations visiting such highly regarded stallions as Zoustar, Spirit Of Boom, Star Turn, Capitalist, Snitzel, Vancouver, Russian Revolution and Redoute's Choice.
In the past triple figure results have been the domain of traditional auction houses but the success of www.bloodstockauction.comproves that there are great, more cost effective and more convenient ways of selling your high class bloodstock.
"This a significant example of the capability of www.bloodstockauction.com as an auction provider for high value stock," said the company's Anthony Gafa, "And an example of the success and growing popularity of online thoroughbred auctions in general."
Readycatgo is the second highest sale for www.bloodstockauction.comwith the stallion Warhorse auctioned off for $275,000.
"Readycatgo and Warhorse are the two highest prices achieved in online sales in Australasia," Gafa said, confident that the concept is only going to get more and more popular.
With
sales held each Tuesday evening, there are ample opportunities to secure horses
of great variety; racehorses, broodmares, stallions, stallion nominations,
yearlings, weanlings and off the track prospects.
The sale just keeps getting stronger as this week's catalogue showed with other
encouraging results including $37,400 for the lightly raced gelding Surreal
Image (100 bids), $32,500 for the in work mare Scarlet Missile (24 bids),
$25,500 for the well related broodmare Jayqin Star (89 bids) and $43,500 for
the Frankel stayer San Remo (96 bids).
The next auction will go live at 7pm AEDT this Thursday with entries for the
catalogue taken up until 6pm AEDT. To enter a horse visit www.bloodstockauction.comor call 1300 849 349.
