The Inglis Melbourne August Sale has attracted wonderful support from vendors and the 376 lot catalogue is now online.
The sale will be held at Oaklands on Thursday and Friday, August 18 & 19. Day 1 will be preceded by a parade of Victoria’s first season sires commencing at 11am.
Broodmares, stallions and new season yearlings will be sold on Thursday. Unbroken stock, race fillies and racehorses will follow on Friday at 10.00am.
To date, 129 broodmares have been entered, including mares by 9 of the Top 10 Australian Broodmare Sires this season – Danehill, Zabeel, Snippets, Flying Spur, Rory’s Jester, Canny Lad, Centaine, Quest For Fame and Last Tycoon.
Covering stallions include High Chaparral, Bel Esprit, Choisir, Starcraft, Statue Of Liberty, Strategic and Tale Of The Cat, exciting young sires Written Tycoon, Foreplay, Domesday and Ad Valorem, plus recent Group 1 winning retirees like Henny Hughes, Floral Pegasus, Soldier’s Tale, Magnus, Northern Meteor, Turffontein, Astronomer Royal, Shinzig, Any Given Saturday and Hard Spun.
The catalogue also includes three stallions, 19 new season yearlings and 20 unbroken stock.
The 205 racehorses and race fillies, boosted by Darley’s decision to use this sale as an annual unreserved reduction, boast progeny of leading sires Lonhro (8 catalogued), Redoute’s Choice (4), High Chaparral (1), Commands (6), Encosta de Lago (3), Bel Esprit (5), Testa Rossa (3), Fastnet Rock (6), Elusive Quality (5), Flying Spur (4), General Nediym (4), Exceed And Excel (8), Mossman (1), Not A Single Doubt (1) and Galileo (4).
Supplementary entries will be taken until Friday, August 12.