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Investors showed no signs of buyer fatigue on the third and final day of the mares’ sale, instead stepping up the bidding competition with a number of high-profile mares who were offered yesterday, led by Gr.1-winning sprinter Volpe Veloce, the equal fifth highest-priced mare of the sale.
Longwood Thoroughbred Farm’s Michael Christian had to go to $1.9 million for Volpe Veloce, his second high-priced addition this week to his growing Victorian-based broodmare band.
Volpe Veloce is in foal to I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) on a November 7 cover and Christian confirmed the mare was set for a return date with the Yarraman Park Stud stallion. Christian confirmed Volpe Veloce would be mated with I Am Invincible again this year.
Christian partnered with agent Sheamus Mills and Peter Morgan to buy Volpe Veloce, who was a big trading result for Newgate Farm’s Henry Field who bought her for $675,000 at last year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale and put her in foal to I Am Invincible.
A New Zealand Railway Stakes (Gr.1, 1200m) winner who was trained by Graham Richardson, Volpe Veloce is a half-sister to Black Opal Stakes (Listed, 1200m) winner Delago Bolt (Delago Brom) and a daughter of Blue Diamond Preview (F) Stakes (Gr.3, 1000m) winner Bardego (Barathea).
Christian runs Longwood Thoroughbred Farm in North East Victoria and believes the state’s breeding industry is on the way up.
The Gr.3 winner and Gr.1-placed Rimraam (Commands), a half-sister to Gr.3 winner and promising Novara Park-based sire Sweynesse (Lonhro), was bought in foal to Dundeel (High Chaparral). The four mares to surpass $2 million, Arcadia Queen ($3.2 million), Melody Belle (Commands) ($2.6 million), Mizzy (Zoustar) ($2.2 million) and Qafila (Not A Single Doubt), who was in foal to Dundeel (High Chaparral) ($2 million), were sent through the ring on Tuesday in the race fillies and mares and Shadwell Stud Australasia Dispersal session and, while the latter three all sold in the ring, Arcadia Queen’s sale-topping purchase completed yesterday evening followed her passing in with a reserve of $4 million on Tuesday.
Eleven Commands (Danehill) mares sold this week at an average of $604,545 while Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock) had nine sell for an average of $428,889. Diddles a million dollar first for Boomer and Daandine Newgate Farm also pulled off another big trade later in the day when it sold Diddles (Snitzel), an ATC Gimcrack Stakes (Gr.3, 1000m) runner-up and half-sister to Barbaric (I Am Invincible), for $1 million in foal to Deep Field (Northern Meteor). Field bought Diddles, a daughter of Gr.2 winner and Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) winner Mimi Lebrock (Show A Heart), for $300,000 from last year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale.
Yesterday, going through the Magic Millions sale, she made $1 million after Boomer Bloodstock’s Craig Rounsefell identified Diddles on behalf of client Jan Clark of Daandine Stud, the breeder of Written Tycoon (Iglesia) and his Golden Slipper Stakes- (Gr.1, 1200m) winning son Capitalist. Diddles was a major milestone for Rounsefell, the president of the Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia, becoming the first milliondollar horse he has bought