The top spot on the second day of selling at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale belonged to a son of the high flying Too Darn Hot (GB), offered as Lot 499 by Gilgai Farm, who provided a number of the top lots on Monday.
The dark brown colt is out of Baveno (Street Cry {Ire}), a winning daughter of G1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner Neroli (Viscount) and a half-sister to Group 3-performed Enfleurage (Exceed And Excel). This is also the family of sire Benfica and 10-time winning black-type performer Bandipur (Commands).
After a spirited session of bidding, the gavel fell at $750,000 for the colt, with the winning bid secured by Malaysian trainer Han Yong Cheng's X Bloodstock.
“It has been a long-term plan to attend Inglis Premier and I gave (Inglis' Victorian Bloodstock Manager) James Price a specific brief of what we wanted and that was to see the best colts in the sale,” said a spokesperson for X Bloodstock.
“I worked with James to identify those types of colts specifically and we have been able to buy four. I said to James, 'show me the best colts in the sale', and we went from there. It was James' plan to buy the best colts from the best breeders in the country and the four we got are two from Gilgai, one from Mill Park and one from Segenhoe. That was our plan and we have achieved that. Lot 499, he was just an absolute athlete. He had scope, he had size and strength, he had an amazing temperament.”
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