Another yearling sale and another domination for Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor (Fr), who has been an overwhelming success this season at sales in both Australia and New Zealand.
A Champion Euorpean 3YO by Wootton Bassett, who now stands at Coolmore, Almanzor had six yearlings average $221,667, which also made him the overall leading sire by average ahead of I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon and Capitalist.
That’s pretty heady stuff and it will be very interesting to look back in a few years with the benefit of hindsight and see if Almanzor delivers in the way demand for his yearlings would suggest.
Top seller for Almanzor at this sale was a $400,000 colt offered by Lime Country Thoroughbreds from Perfect Offering that was bought by Haras d'Etreham / Cambridge Stud.
Aquis Farm’s Snitzel Group I winner Invader was next on the list with 10 yearlings averaging $133,500 and his best result coming with a colt from Hussidora that made $375,000 for Bell River Thoroughbreds when snapped up by George Moore Bloodstock / Team Moore Racing.
Yarraman Park’s Hellbent was the leading first season sire by aggregate with his 24 yearlings sold generating $2.5 million and averaging $104,167. The Group I winning son of I Am Invincible did best with a $300,000 filly from Crystal Rock that was offered by Middlebrook Valley Lodge and bought by Star Thoroughbreds / Randwick Bloodstock Agency.
Coolmore based Churchill, a champion son of Galileo, was next on the list with nine yearlings averaging $92,778, his best result the colt from Dixie Chick that made $180,000 for Byerley Stud when bought by Star Thoroughbreds / Randwick Bloodstock Agency (FBAA).
