It was the Anamoe show on the final day of the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale June 12 as the Darley dynamo delivered some outstanding results for vendors, most notably the AU$825,000 (US$577,500, AU$1=US$0.70) fetched by Three Bridges for his filly out of its prolific producer Femme Fireball—which represented a joint-record price for this sale.
Remarkably, the total spent on the trio of Anamoe weanlings offered for sale came to a cool AU$1.505 million, with his prized colt selling for AU$480,000 earlier in the session and his filly consigned by Twin Hills Stud on the opening day procuring AU$200,000.
As widely expected, given the prodigious prowess shown by her elder sisters, Lot 406—the fifth foal (all fillies) produced by broodmare phenom Femme Fireball—proved to be the headline act on a highly competitive day of trading at Oaklands Junction. Yulong's Yuesheng Zhang eventually emerging triumphant from an intense bidding duel for the bay filly shortly after 4:30 p.m. local time Friday afternoon.
The filly's half sisters, Femminile (Dundeel) and Ciaron Maher's recent Queensland Oaks (G1) heroine Fireball Miss (Bivouac), were sold as yearlings for AU$150,000 and AU$140,000, respectively, with the former subsequently acquired by Yulong for AU$1.5 million as a broodmare prospect off the back of her valiant victory in the 2025 South Australian Derby (G1).
"To get these results is what you dream of,'' Three Bridges' principal Toby Liston said.
"We thought we had the right product, we bought her to Inglis and she shone. ... She's obviously smashed the record for a weanling sold this year and why wouldn't she, she's such a beauty.''
Record Results
The Great Southern Weanling Sale gross of AU$15,289,500 (US$10,702,650) saw a AU$4.2 million jump (51%) on last year and set a new record for the sale, eclipsing the previous benchmark of AU$12,140,600 set in 2024
This year's Great Southern Weanling Sale saw incredible growth, with the average (AU$51,829, US$36,280) and median (AU$25,000, US$17,500)—both sale records—up 16% and 14%, respectively, year on year.
Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch described the past month of breeding stock sales as "phenomenal."
"When you look back and reflect, to gross almost AU$35 million for our weanling sales series is really incredible, especially when you consider the Magic Millions Weanling Sale grossed AU$16,149,500, so our sales have more than doubled that,'' Hutch said.
"For context, as recently as 2019, our weanling sale series was over AU$10.2 million behind that of Magic Millions in terms of turnover, so thank you to all vendors for working with us to help to turn that around.
"Our team has worked exceptionally hard to generate momentum behind our weanling sales series and I'm confident the drive and passion within our team will see us continue to progress the standard of service that we offer our clients through the balance of the year and into 2027."
