Kingstar Farm is ready to appear with the title of top lot from the Inglis HTBA Annual Sale for the second time in three years on April 23, through a highly rated program capitalist colt will retain many buyers until dark.
Added to the catalog as a supplement, the chestnut will sell as the last of the 300 saplings listed in this edition of the previous Scone sale and may be available for purchase. Riverside match at around 8 p.m. local time.
The first pony was placed sebring mare Princess Joy Joy—blood related to the winner of the group of four 1 Standard —the pony was sold at a much higher price than is usually found at this sale.
He was offered for sale in the Segenhoe draft at the Inglis’ Melbourne Premier sale early last month and purchased by Hong Kong buyer Ricky Yiu for AU$260,000. That sale ultimately didn’t take place, however, leaving the foal through a second run on Sunday, with Kingstar anticipating big things after handling it through a brief second prep. This.
“He’s one of the best ponies you’ll ever see at an HTBA sale,” said Conor Phelan, Kingstar nominations manager. “He would be a proper star. He is a very good horse.
“He makes no mistakes, he comes from a great family, and he’s a great mover. He’s someone people want to see when they see an aspiring Capitalist. .
“He’s the last one and he’s worth the wait. He’ll probably be in the Hong Kong contractors’ zone again, as he’ll be traveling across their time zone. As a supplier , you usually have to wait a long and hard time. I got the last batches of the sale, but this wait will be easy.”
Joleur pony’s second dam left three winners in On This RockLook, and Denmark Bhutan and half-sister to Mica’s Pride, the Criterion trio of winners.
Founded in 2016, Matthew Sandblom’s Kingstar Farm has achieved a strong record of HTBA sales. In 2021, they Russian revolution colt from the American mare Lucinda’s Moon was the top lot for AU$145,000, sold to Singaporean interests. Last year, Kingstar comfortably became the leading supplier of the sale through a total of AU$540,500 for 13 consignments sold.
However, the record price level of the drop seems unlikely to be broken this time around. It was set last year when Michael Freedman paid AU$300,000 for a Extreme choice dirty from equity maker Dashie Diva, broke the previous best of AU$180,000 for a tornado ponies in 2020.
Kingstar introduces a herd of 10 horses this year, including four foals of their first season stallion Unite and conquer. These include a foal from the Golden Pedigree, a winning mare from the brilliant but short-lived Gold Brose, and a foal from Zabeel mare Sukhar, the winner’s half-sister. Melbourne Cup (G1) Effective.
Phelan said: “We are really pleased with the first part of Unite And Conquer. “They’re good, mature, get up and ride the kind of horses that get a lot of attention on the ranch. They’re probably the ready-to-run type.”
Brutal, with 13 crosses selling at high prices, is also represented by Lot 273, a pony from Vinery Stud’s draft from half-sisters with fangirlstop winner and star again this fall, including both groups 1 second to Anamoe in Chipping Norton Stakes (G1) and George Ryder Stakes (G1). The second dam is a three stake winner surfing girlThe daughter of the special trio won a Special Harmony mare.
Vinery presents a draft 14 strong horses that also have Lot 39, a pony by their stallion turn stars out of Encosta De Lago mare Granados, whose Larrocha dam won the South Australian Oaks (G1). Also likely to add more spice to a lively ending on sale is their Lot 284, a Vinery first season male. exceed from half-sister to Group 1 champion and Golden Sandal (G1) runner-up, ooohood.
The sale of HTBA last year moved 223 lots with a total value of AU$5.58 million, AU$25,033 averaging AU$17,000 and a payout ratio of 87 per cent.
All lots are eligible, with reduced nomination fees, for the AU$12.55 million Inglis Race Series, which includes the AU$1 million Pink Rewards Series and the A$1 million Pink Reward Series. -ri recently announced AU$5 million Xtra Rewards.
Inglis CEO Sebastian Hutch said: “This sale represents a good opportunity to enter a market that is hungry for one of the last opportunities of the year.
“It’s clearly been a very competitive year for people trying to buy horses, and there are still a lot of people, especially at the bottom of the value ladder, that are entering the horse-buying market.”
Hutch highlighted that as of 2018, the average income per runner among the sale graduates was AU$40,043, more than double the average price of the sale at the time.
The most represented supplier is Widden Stud, with a draft of 23 lots, ahead of Riversdale with 19 and Murulla Stud with 18.
