Multiple Australian listed winner Bold Bastille (Aus) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) changed hands for A$810,000 to Yulong under the Walnut Farm banner during Tuesday's Inglis Digital Online Sale.
Offered by Lindsay Park Racing for an ownership group that included Ozzie Kheir, John O'Neill and partners, the O E & D R Pope, Pty., Ltd.-bred filly is the eighth horse to realise A$500,000 or more on Inglis Digital this year and the 104th to realise A$100,000 or more on the platform in the same time frame. She was originally an A$270,000 Inglis Premier yearling when picked up by Lindsay Park Racing and Group 1 Bloodstock from the Blue Gum Farm draft in 2023.
Yulong chief operating officer, Sam Fairgray indicated the daughter of the group-placed Chloe In Paris (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) would remain in training with Ben Will and JD Hayes, and told The Thoroughbred Report, “We've seen what they've done over the past couple of years. They're a fantastic training organisation, and they have a facility that they can mix it up and do different things, and come up with different ideas.
“They're great with innovations and what they've done with their horses in the past. We've had a good relationship with them, and we look forward to hopefully continuing that with Bold Bastille. We've got a couple of ideas with what we might do with her, which we'll talk about in the next couple of days.
“Longer term she's got great residual value and she'll be easy to mate with any of our stallions. The likelihood is that next year she'll retire and go to stud, and we know those fillies with their precocity as 2-year-olds pass it on to their progeny.”
Bold Bastille's dam is a half-sister to the Brazen Beau stakes winner Ideas Man (Aus), the group-placed The Original (Aus) (Dehere), the winning dam of Group 3 heroine She Dances (Aus) (Street Boss), and another half-sister is responsible for stakes winner Larimer Street (Aus) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) and the G3 Zeditave Stakes and G3 Telstra Phonewords Stakes second Brockhoff (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}).
“Yes, [Bold Bastille has good pedigree], and we own her half-sister already, Rue Vivienne (Aus), who is a Lonhro (Aus). She had an Alabama Express (Aus) foal this year,” Fairgray added. “So it's a family that we like, and her pedigree is going to work well with a couple of our stallions.
“That was one of the ideas of getting her. Eventually she'll end up in the breeding barn, and we can breed her to one of our stallions.”
Added Group 1 Bloodstock's Mat Becker, “All the owners are over the moon, we're so happy with the outcome, everybody is just really pleased.
“It's great to see her end up at that price, she really deserved it and it was very exciting to watch the bidding that final half hour or so, it really soared.”
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