A Tassort colt from the Blue Gum Farm draft topped Sunday’s Inglis Gold Yearling Sale at Oaklands, selling to Trilogy Racing for $80,000.
The colt from Viascon was offered on behalf of Max Porlezza’s Braebrook Thoroughbreds, who was “ecstatic” with the outcome achieved by the colt, who is related to his family’s champion filly Streama.
“It was more than we were ever expecting, I really can’t believe how well he’s sold, it’s fantastic,’’ Porlezza said.
“We thought he was a nice colt and I’ve always thought you want to have the nicer colts in those kind of sales where he was going to stand out and while you never know how much they’re going to stand out, it was just a great result, more than we ever expected.’’
Trilogy’s Sean Dingwall described the colt from Viascon as “a real 2YO type’’.
“[Trilogy’s] Jason [Stenning] was keen to buy a 2YO type and this colt is certainly that, he’ll go to the breakers basically immediately and get into the system and hopefully be up and running early,’’ Dingwall said.
“The stallion is really doing the job, they lucked on the right leg with Manaal winning the [Inglis] Sires a fortnight ago and having a fee increase to be announced this week, it just made sense.’’
Viascon produced a filly last spring by another of the young Newgate sires in North Pacific.
Tassort has had a sensation start to his stud career siring five winners from 15 starters with Group I winner Manaal his star performer and two more stakes-placed horses in Ameena and Ad Astra.