Our exciting first crop sire North Pacific put the sparkle into the final session of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Tuesday when his filly from Sunlit sold for $420,000 to R Unicorn Stable / Rising Sun Syndicate / Satomi Oka Bloodstock.
The filly had a big pedigree update as not only is she a half-sister to Group III winner The Novelist, but she is also now a sibling to unbeaten colt Fully Lit, winne of last Saturday’s $2million Inglis Millennium.
The star filly consigned by Glenlogan Park and Steve Morely was thrilled with the result.
“This filly was very much well admired from day one – before Fully Lit won the Millennium even – but that result certainly didn’t hurt. You always get good inspections of your Classic draft, there’s always plenty of people here and this year was no exception, from the bottom to the top there was endless inspections but I guess the main thing that changed pre and post Millennium was the price they might have to pay for her,” said Morley.
“I still put a small reserve on her which is what I intended to put on her regardless of what happened at Randwick on Saturday, but I was just very confident that she was going to triple our reserve or a touch more, which she did.
“When you’ve got the right product and you know how well admired she is and you can see who’s looking at her and you know they’re the serious players in the industry, there’s no nerves, just anticipation. It’s a real thrill.’’
The owner of R Unicorn Stable was enjoying his first trip to Australia for a horse sale and was delighted to purchase the filly, who will be trained by Chris Waller.
“We race horses in different countries around the world, we came to Australia for the first time last week, was impressed by the quality of horses, we enjoyed the racing and meeting the industry people here,’’ he said.
“When [Inglis’ Japanese rep] Satomi [Oka] showed me this horse, she wasn’t in our budget but we talked to Rising Sun who also really liked the horse and agreed to team up to make sure we bought her.
“We’ve been absolutely impressed by the Inglis complex and their hospitality and services, the whole experience was so friendly, they’re all very nice people.’’
The sale set a new benchmark for North Pacific as his most expensive yearling to sell this year and he finished Classic with 14 yearlings selling at an average $105,964.
