Inglis

by Keely Mckitterick/TTR AusNZ    Following the sale of the AU$10 million Winx (Aus) filly and his announcement to step back from full-time duties at the end of the year, Jonathan D'Arcy, Inglis's general manager of bloodstock operations, spoke with TTR AusNZ.    A few days after Jonathan D'Arcy, Inglis's general manager of bloodstock operations and auctioneer, made headlines for knocking down the Pierro (Aus) x Winx filly for a staggering AU$10 million to Woppitt Bloodstock, he took the time to sit down with The Thoroughbred Report for a Q&A...

by Lewis Lesbirel/TTR AusNZ Buyers will be afforded a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to secure a daughter of Australia's most decorated racemare after it was announced on Sunday that the owners of Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) have opted to sell her first foal at the 2024 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The daughter of Pierro (Lonhro {Aus}) will be offered by Coolmore, the farm on which Winx herself was raised, on behalf of her owners Peter and Patty Tighe, Woppitt Bloodstock, Elizabeth Treweeke and Rick Treweeke on Day 2 of the...

Multiple Group 2 winner Jamaea (Aus) (Headwater {Aus}) topped the Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale at A$1.025 million to Yulong Stud on Wednesday. Sold as lot 325, the 4-year-old filly won the G2 Percy Sykes S. at two and progressed to take the G2 Furious S. as a 3-year-old and was retired a millionaire after 20 starts when campaigned by an ownership group including Bruce Noble. The dark bay was an A$130,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling purchase by Robert Price when offered by breeder Cressfield Thoroughbreds. "She's been...

James Harron is one of the most respected operators of his craft internationally. Based in Australia, the native of Northern Ireland credits Gai Waterhouse, agent George Smith and Winx (Aus)'s breeder John Camilleri of Fairway Thoroughbreds as being some of the key influences in his career.    Foxwedge (Aus) is the horse who got the ball rolling for Harron Down Under. He sourced the high-class sprinter-turned-stallion as a yearling and, from there, refined the art of making stallions on a commercial level through colt partnerships.    It's a little under...

Friday's Inglis Chairman's Sale offered a trio of Juddmonte mares, and the priciest lot, Ludisia (GB) (Frankel {GB}) (lot 48), showed the way at A$650,000. Snapped up by James Harron on behalf of Morningside VIC, the Twin Hills Stud-consigned daughter of crack French sprinter African Rose (GB) (Observatory) is in foal to Juddmonte stallion Kingman (GB). African Rose, in turn, is a full-sister to G3 Prix d'Aumale heroine Helleborine (GB) (Observatory), herself the dam of sensational G2 Coventry S. winner and now Coolmore sire Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB}). Another of...

Courtesy TDN AusNZ Juddmonte will offer a trio of mares, two in foal to Frankel (GB) and the other in foal to Kingman (GB), at the Inglis Chairman's Sale on May 6. Consigned by Olly Tait's Twin Hills Stud, the Invincible Spirit (Ire) mare Escapement (GB), a half-sister to Group 1 winners Timepiece (GB) (Zamindar) and Passage Of Time (GB) (Dansili {GB}), the latter the dam of breakout stallion Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), is carrying to Frankel, as is Lucid Dreamer (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Lucid Dreamer is closely related...

While 2021 marks the end of an era for Australia's Arrowfield Stud, with the last yearlings by its breed-shaping sire Redoute's Choice (Aus) going through the ring, it has likewise signaled the start of another, with young shuttler Shalaa (Ire) getting off to a bright start with his first Southern Hemisphere-bred crop headed by the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero (Aus). Arrowfield will offer yearlings by both at the upcoming Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Apr. 6 and 7, and we caught up with Arrowfield's John Messara to...

In 2008, Sebastian Hutch was presented with an opportunity to spend three months in Australia working at Coolmore's Southern Hemisphere base. The Irish native, who hails from Co. Cork, admits that Australia was not high on his list of must visit destinations, but some 13 years later Hutch has become ingrained into the fabric of the Australian industry and now holds the position of General Manager in Bloodstock Sales & Marketing at Inglis, whose forthcoming Easter Yearling Sale is a highlight on the bloodstock calendar. Hutch's experience prior to his...

In Tuesday's TDN, William Inglis Co.'s General Manager of Bloodstock Sales and Marketing Sebastian Hutch reflected on the results of the company's very successful Australian Easter Yearling Sale last month and took a look ahead at this Friday's Chairman's Sale, in which bloodstock professionals from all corners of the globe will have the opportunity to buy into some accomplished bloodstock. Amongst the 90 lots cataloged to the sale, to be conducted digitally, are pedigrees featuring runners familiar to an American audience, as well as several with European connections. To follow...

It may not seem like it as of late, with people confined to their homes or at the very least their own countries, but Thoroughbred bloodstock remains a global currency. Friday's Inglis Chairman's Sale-to be conducted, like its Easter Sale, virtually from the company's headquarters at Warwick Farm in Sydney-is an excellent embodiment of this. The 90 fillies and mares catalogued for the boutique breeding stock sale represent many of the best families both domestically and from Europe and the U.S. And, like at any market-leading sale, the top offerings...

In 2017, the Chairman's Sale was added to the calendar at Australia's William Inglis Co., a boutique event similar in nature to Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars, the Goffs London and Champion Sales and the Arqana Arc Sale. The Chairman's Sale was created to present Australian buyers--and, indeed, an increasingly internationally based clientele--the rare opportunity to buy into Australian bloodstock of all ages. Last year's Chairman's Sale was topped by the then 7-year-old MGSP Maastricht (NZ) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), whose daughter Loving Gaby (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) had won at...

Last weekend, OTI Racing and partners' Quick Thinker (Aus) (So You Think {NZ}) provided a timely advertisement for Inglis's Easter Yearling Sale, where he had been bought 24 months' previously for $100,000 by Hubie de Burgh, when winning the G1 Australian Derby on the first day of The Championships at Royal Randwick. The Easter sale of 2018, when Quick Thinker went through the ring, looked much different than its latest renewal earlier this week, and the horse is perhaps appropriately named when considering the efforts that Inglis's personnel-as well as...