By Trent Masenhelder
Multiple Group 2 winner Jamaea (Aus) (Headwater {Aus}) topped the Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale at A$1.025 million to Yulong Stud on Wednesday.
Sold as lot 325, the 4-year-old filly won the G2 Percy Sykes S. at two and progressed to take the G2 Furious S. as a 3-year-old and was retired a millionaire after 20 starts when campaigned by an ownership group including Bruce Noble. The dark bay was an A$130,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling purchase by Robert Price when offered by breeder Cressfield Thoroughbreds.
“She's been great for us and this is the icing on the cake,” Noble told TTR AusNZ of the daughter of 2014 G3 Bow Mistress S. heroine Isibaeva (Aus) (Johannesburg). “She's been a pretty good investment for A$130,000. Inglis did a great job and we're very, very pleased with the result. It's a bit sad to see her go, but we can't wait to see her first foal on the ground.
Yulong was also in action for the five-time winner and group-placed Brookspire (Aus) (Hinchinbrook {Aus}) (lot 120), who they bought for A$640,000. Both purchases will visit Yulong stallion Diatonic (Jpn) this season.
“We want to give Diatonic some really nice mares in his first season to give him the best possible chance and we think Jamaea is perfect for him,” Yulong's Sam Fairgray said.
“She's an attractive race mare with a great record, a multiple Group 2 winner and performed at both two and three so we're delighted to have her.”
The latter is a 5-year-old half-sister to 2020 G1 Railway S. heroine Inspirational Girl (NZ) (Reliable Man {GB}). Jamieson Park's James Chapman bred the mare, who made A$300,000 on the bid of Chris Waller Racing/Brae Sokolski at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Of the A$1-million Magic Millions Fillies and Mares winner who was also runner-up in the 2021 G3 Belle of the Turf S., Chapman told TTR AusNZ, “It's been a wonderful family for us, it kind of got us going, really. You need a few mares like that, that's how you build a farm.” Chapman said.
On Brookspire, Fairgray said, “We bought Brookspire's half-sister Inspirational Girl (NZ) (Reliable Man {GB}) at the Chairman's Sale so it's just about putting together a family that Mr. Zhang has full belief in.
“Like Jamaea, Brookspire will also visit Diatonic this season. She's a nice race mare who certainly sold for more than we thought she might, but again, you have to almost expect that to some extent with these nicer mares.”
Another lot of note included a share in leading New Zealand Proisir (Aus) (lot 179) making A$380,000 when secured by Sean Buckley's Ultra Thoroughbreds. They are entitled to one breeding nomination per year, plus a pro-rata share of the pooled service. Rich Hill Stud, where the stallion stands, offered the share as agent.
Proisir is firmly on top of the New Zealand Sires' Table, with earnings of NZ$4,151,650, a New Zealand record. The stallion has four new Group 1 winners to his name this season–Dark Destroyer (NZ), Pier (NZ), Legarto (NZ) and Prowess (NZ)–and he has five his overall, with Levante (NZ) the other.
“I love the horse, I think he's one of the best two stallions in Australasia alongside Savabeel (Aus). I think he's a superstar,” said Buckley.
“I'll send two mares to him and I'm just so pleased to have bought this share today because he's a sire I think is going to feature heavily for many, many years to come.”
Rounding out the top four was lot 296, the Nostradamus (Aus) mare Clairvoyance (Aus). Byerley Bloodstock paid A$330,000 for the 4-year-old, who won seven of her 11 starts, including once at listed level. She fractured her pelvis during trackwork in March of last year, but has recovered.
In total, the July (Late) Online Sale grossed A$4,672,250, ensuring July became the second most successful month in Inglis Digital history, thanks to a bumper July (Early) Online Sale as well as the boutique Miss Roseiano (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) sale which has resulted in a monthly gross of A$13,283,900.
“Success breeds success and it's certainly been a fabulous month for the platform, with the likes of Miss Roseiano (A$1.275 million), Another Award (Aus) (A$1.2 million), Daisies (Aus) (A$920,000), More Aspen in foal to Maschino (Aus) (A$720,000) and then these results today making for some fabulous results for our clients,” Inglis Digital's Business Manager Nick Melmeth said.
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