The top priced offering at the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale over the weekend was Villa San Michele, who fetched $260,000 with a positive test to Deep Field in her first season at stud.

Consigned by Segenhoe Stud and bought by Yu Long Investments, Villa San Michele is an unraced Medaglia D’Oro (USA) daughter of Group III winner Florentina from the Twyla branch of the Dancing Show family that has given us champion sire Redoute’s Choice and Group I winners such as Shoals and Manhattan Rain.

“We’re delighted, completely delighted. She was a queen of a mare with a pedigree to die for so she deserved a good price and she absolutely got that and more,’’ said Segenhoe Stud’s Peter  O’Brien.

“It’s not often you get a Medaglia d’Oro mare that ticks every box, in foal to a hot stallion the quality of Deep Field.

“Yulong have been great supporters of us in buying weanlings, yearlings and broodmares for a long time and the most important thing for us was that this mare went to a good home and that’s absolutely the case with Yulong purchasing her, which is fantastic.”

The second highest priced mare was stakes-winning Foxwedge mare Kentucky Miss, who was offered as part of the Luskin Park Dispersal in foal to Flying Artie and bought by Aston Bloodstock for $250,000.

As vendors the Newgate Consignment met the market selling 21 mares for $522,000 with the best result $145,000 paid by Paul Moroney Bloodstock for Northern Meteor mare Tempting Delight offered in foal to Russian Revolution.