A colossal week of trade at Riverside came to a stunning end with Sunday’s Australian Broodmare Sale enjoying extraordinary growth across all key financial indicators.
In total, A$53,036,850 has been traded over the past eight days between the HTBA May Yearling Sale, the Australian Weanling Sale, the Chairman’s Sale and the Australian Broodmare Sale. The earlier three sales, which all enjoyed redoubtable growth, were solidly backed up by the Australian Broodmare Sale which saw its average jump a stunning 53% to $63,311, while the median also rose by 50% to A$45,000.
Leading broodmare – Oklahoma Girl
The leading broodmare on Sunday was Lot 486, Oklahoma Girl (Fastnet Rock-Shawnee Girl, by Encosta de Lago), offered by Coolmore in foal to Widden Stud’s Zoustar (Northern Meteor).
The Group 1-placed three-time winner was purchased by Rosemont Stud for A$350,000 and will be served by their latest acquisition Hanseatic (Street Boss).
It capped off a big week for the Rosemont team, who also purchased a second lot yesterday in addition to three mares at Friday night’s Chairman’s Sale.
“She’s a ripper. It’s a great family and they’re the sorts of broodmares – by a great broodmare sire and great sire in general in Fastnet Rock – we should be adding to our collection and giving our new boy Hanseatic a good chance with,’’ Rosemont’s Anthony Mithen said.
“It is Mother’s Day and [Rosemont owner] Nigel [Austin], he’s married to an Oklahoma girl, would you believe. Melanie Austin, his wife, is from Oklahoma, so we had one more bid because of a very clever name!’’
