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Yes, Team Arrowfield is smiling after a history-making result for the Stud’s own Inglis Easter draft last week at Riverside Stables. The smiles are equally broad for the results achieved by the progeny of the Stud’s stallions, for Arrowfield and 25 other vendors. In all, 99 (90.8%) of 109 Arrowfield-sired lots sold for an average of $451,818 headed by eight $1 million+ yearlings – 5 by Snitzel, two by Dundeel and one by Not A Single Doubt.
Top price was achieved by Arrowfield’s $2.25 million Snitzel-Response colt, bought by Tom Magnier of Coolmore Australia. That group also included Bhima Thoroughbreds’ Snitzel-Purely Spectacular colt, secured for $1.4 million by Go Bloodstock, the Waterhouse & Bott stable & Kestrel Thoroughbreds. Snitzel’s $717,708 average price for 24 lots is the highest of his remarkable career and reflects both the outstanding support breeders continue to give him, and the superlative racetrack results he continues to generate. |
Highlights of the Champion Sire’s 2021/22 season worldwide are Group 1 winners In The Congo, Wild Ruler & Yearning among 16 stakeswinners and 21 other stakes performers.
Not A Single Doubt rose from six seasons at a $12,500 fee to join the ranks of Australia’s best stallions, with 16 Group 1 winners among his 79 stakeswinners, and more to come from his high-quality final crops.
Twenty-eight of Dundeel’s 31 offered lots sold, averaging $368,750, or just over 6 times his 2019 fee. They include his first two million-dollar yearlings, the $1.7 million daughter of Stay With Me, and the $1 million colt out of Honesty Prevails – both purchased by Hawkes Racing.
All 12 of his Inglis Easter yearlings sold for an Australian career-high average of $339,583, a massive 13.5 times his $25,000 fee in 2019. His top price of $500,000 was paid twice, for Silverdale Farm’s colt out of Seven Year Itch, and Arrowfield’s colt from Maracas.
The Autumn Sun’s first-crop yearlings have been warmly received throughout the 2022 sales season, beginning with a $383,929 average and two $900,000+ lots at Magic Millions.
His 22 Easter yearlings were sold for a total of $6.9 million with a top price of $750,000 paid by John O’Shea for Torryburn Stud’s colt out of Axiomatic.
Overall, 76 The Autumn Sun yearlings have sold at six sales for an average of $301,398 – a healthy 4.3 times his first season fee.
They will race from many of Australasia’s top stables including Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young, Anthony & Sam Freedman, Tony Gollan, Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock, Roger James & Robert Wellwood, Kris Lees, Ciaron Maher & David Eustace, Tony & Calvin McEvoy, Peter Moody, John O'Shea, Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr, Chris Waller and Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott.
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Shalaa’s largest third-crop draft was sold at Magic Millions, where all 26 entries sold, averaging $205,692 and recording a top price of $500,000, paid by the Waterhouse & Bott team for Segenhoe’s Set For Fame filly. |
