The 2010 Inglis Premier yearling sale commenced on March 1 with the Darley stallions showing positive results across the board.
Leading the way was lot 86 (pictured), a strapping grey colt by Danehill’s Champion sprinting-son Exceed And Excel. Offered by Victorian-based farm Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, the top-priced colt was knocked down to leading Caulfield trainer Mick Price for $300,000.
The first foal out of the Encosta de Lago mare De Lago Mist, a winner of the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes during her two-year-old season, the colt comes from the family of current Stakes horses Wanted and last Saturday’s G3 winner Shrapnel.
The colt will be raced in partnership with Julian Blaxland’s Blue Sky Thoroughbreds who knows the family all too well, having purchased Shrapnel at last year’s Easter yearling sale. When speaking about the colt after the sale, Mick Price indicated, “He was the colt of the sale.”
“He is a lovely horse, a trainer's horse with great bone, and from a really good family.”
“I loved him from the first time I saw him and we are just wrapt to have him.”
Leading the international contingent of buyers was Hong Kong based trainer Ricky Yiu. Responsible for sculpting the career of the World Champion Sprinter Sacred Kingdom, Yiu purchased three colts by the Darley stallions on the opening day of the sale.
Lot 132, a Lonhro colt from the Dehere mare Fashion Week was knocked down for $170,000, while earlier in the day Yiu signed for lot 16, an Exceed And Excel colt from the Canny Lad mare Best O’ Barossa for $130,000.
Exceed And Excel had three yearlings sell on the first day of the sale, averaging $148,666 - well in excess of the overall sale average of $71,488. Although Lonhro only had two yearlings sell today, he leads the overall sire table with an average of $150,000.
The sale continues on Tuesday.
