Racing
Another record at Aus Weanling Sale
For the second day in a row, a top-lot record was set at the 2025 Australian Weanling Sale
The Stay Inside filly who set a new Australian Weanling Sale record on Day 1 of this year's offering held the mark for less than a day after a colt by Too Darn Hot readjusted the mark on Tuesday.
The youngster out of Enbihaar, which makes him a brother to classy Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained three-year-old filly Too Darn Lizzie, sold for $775,000, which was $125,000 more than Day 1's top lot.
The colt was bought by Stefan Pardi's Equine Growth Fund and Matt Comerford of Widden Stud, which offered the colt, said all kinds of buyers were interested in him.
"He had yearling numbers of inspections here which is unheard of for weanling sales,'' he said.
"Everybody looked at him. He had a huge amount of options that we thought could be potential players on him – not just the pinhookers but the end users also – which is a great credit to the sale to be able to draw those pinhooking groups and your end users to a sale like this.
"Accordingly so, he's ended up a pinhook but your elite trainers were all here to try and buy the horse too."
The $775,000 colt is the fourth foal from Enbihaar, a Group 2 winner on the track who will be sold herself, in-foal to Zoustar, later this week at the Chairman's Sale.
The $650,000 Stay Inside filly ended the sale the second top lot but the others rounding out the top five were all sold on Tuesday.
Anamoe had a stellar result at the first sale his progeny were offered with a filly out of Eawase selling to Lime Country Thoroughbreds for $340,000, the same amount Silverdale Farm paid for a Too Darn Hot colt out of Josdesanimaux.
New Zealand farm Lyndhurst Farm paid $290,000 for a filly by I Am Invincible out of the American mare Chasing Fireflies.
The 2025 sale grossed $19,194,950, almost $3m more than last year when almost 100 fewer lots were offered.
The $54,223 average was down fractionally on last year's $55,151, helped by a slight drop in clearance rate from 78 percent to 76 percent, but the median matched last year's $30,000.
"The metrics are quite unbelievable really," Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said.
"Record top price. Record gross of more than $19m. Record average, it's really staggering.
"This is a sale we have worked really hard with our vendors on for a few years now to try and get as many top quality weanlings here as possible because the buying bench had been so strong and their thirst for the best weanlings left us feeling that they wanted more and more.
"The quality of stock at this year's sale was significantly improved again, which is obviously shown in the results where the record price was set not once but twice during the sale."
With the weanling sale done, attention now turns to the prized Chairman's Sale, which will be held on Thursday night.
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