The highest priced colt during Mondy’s opening session of the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale was a strapping son of Capitalist that made $370,000 for Macquarie Stud.

A half-brother to smart stakes-winner Brudenell from well related More Than Ready (USA) mare Knit ‘n’ Purl, the colt was bought by New Zealand based Nick and Nicky White’s Kaha Nui Farm.

Macquarie’s David Baxter has had much success with this family and selling this colt put the icing on the cake.

“We bred every horse on the page, the mother, the grandmother and the great grandmother and kept quite a few females from it, it’s been a good solid family but we haven’t sold many horses like that,’’ Baxter said.

“He was a wonderful foal from the day he was born and some good judges came through home looking at the horses and one said to me, ‘you know, you should offer this horse as a weanling’, which I normally wouldn’t do because over the years we’ve taken them through to the yearling stage but I took his advice and I am glad I did.

“We thought if he brought $200,000, that was about his mark and we thought he could come home if he didn’t bring $200,000 and he brought $370,000, so I am a bad judge.’’

Nicky White is anything but a bad judge and conceded she was again running out of bids before finally winning the battle.

“For me, he was the colt of the sale to be honest, he had plenty of length about him, I think he’s got a lot of growing to do without getting too big and he’s definitely one I wanted to take home, but they were pushing me along a bit,’’ White said.

“I was getting to a point where perhaps I should sit on my hands but I’m glad I got him. We’ll get him back to the farm in the Waikato and see what we can turn him into.’’