Winx's Half-Brother Tops Opening Day Of Inglis Easter

Four lots sold for a million dollars or more on a picturesque opening day of the 2016 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney. 

Under stunning blue skies a plethora of trainers, owners, agents and syndicators from Australia and around the globe came together to bid on the region’s best bred and conformed yearlings.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum was the first of 80 individual buyers to get their name on the buyers’ sheet when outbidding Coolmore Stud to $480,000 on a filly by Fastnet Rock from Pane In The Glass that was sold by Newgate Farm.

By the end of the day’s proceedings 178 yearlings had been offered with 78% sold at an average of $291,975, marking the best start to an Easter Sale since the great record heights of 2008.

Read a full report on the first day of the Sale at the Inglis Website HERE