High Hopes for Local Sale

Filed in Recent News by May 15, 2016

THERE are 206 lots on offer today at the Scone Yearling Sale and high hopes it will exceed the average price of previous years.

Bay filly from Arrowfield by Big Brown and Talons Shown.

Bay filly from Arrowfield by Big Brown and Talons Shown.

Johnathan D’Arcy, bloodstock manager for Inglis, said it is a good sale to pick up a yearling, with many buyers staying after the racing carnival to attend the sale today.

“We’ve got a half sister to this years blue diamond winner Extreme Choice, we’ve got another half-sister to Flying Jet who recently won a group 3 race in South Australia,” he said.

“We’ve been around this week looking at 100 of the yearlings already and there are some very nice types in the sale,” he said.

“Nintey percent of the horses are coming from Upper Hunter the bigger studs are Yarraman Park, Vinery, Arrowfield and Widden all have a dozen or more yearlings in the sale and quite a few of the smaller studs have their two’s and three’s and four’s,” he said.

“It’s a popular sale because the costs in getting the horses to a yearling sale in Scone area lot less than a sale in Sydney or a sale interstate and certainly for horses that needed that little bit more time to mature it is the perfect grounds to be selling.

“We get a lot of provincial and country trainers but we do have a plane coming up from Sydney that the breeders and we pay for and there are buyers on that coming up from Melbourne and then quite a few of the Sydney trainers are here for the racing carnival and they are staying over for the sale.

“The sale averages $12,000, but Id like to see that grow a little bit this year, we have a good catalogue and some nice types so I’d be hoping for a sale that is upwards of $12,000 on average

Horses purchased at the Scone Yearling Sale are able to run in a closed race next year on the Friday of the Scone Cup Carnival with prize money of  $100,000.

Horses in this years race ranged in purchase price from with the favourite being a $6,500 filly but the twelve horses this year ranged from 55,000 to $2,500.

 

 

 

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