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Newhaven Park made a triumphant return to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with the three yearlings they offered for a total of $690,000.

Newhaven Park made a triumphant return to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with the three yearlings they offered over the first two days of trade making a total of $690,000 selling at an average of $230,000 which saw them end Book 1 as leading vendors by average (with three or more lots sold). 

The highlight of the trident was a filly by Darley shuttler Street Boss (Street Cry) who was purchased by Victorian trainer Henry Dwyer for $320,000 early on the second day of the auction.

The New South Wales-based operation had not offered a draft at the Victorian sale since 2017 and John Kelly was happy his decision to return to Oaklands paid off. 

"We chose to come here as they are all Super VOBIS nominated which I think is important because the buyers here basically want to buy a VOBIS nominated horses and they were all by Victorian stallions so we bought them down here," said Kelly. 

Catalogued as Lot 274, the filly is out of two-time winning Fastnet Rock (Danehill) mare Lotta Sugar, whose first foal is a two-year-old filly by Written Tycoon (Iglesia) and she was purchased by Andrew Noblet at the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale in 2019 for $60,000. 

The filly's third dam is Grade 3 winner Lotta Dancing (Alydar), who produced Grade 2 winner Fantasticat (Storm Cat), while she is the grandam of Grade 1 winner Centralinteligence (Smarty Jones) and stakes winners Cage Fighter (Closing Argument), As Seen On TV (Lookin At Lucky), Brunette Princess (Bodemeister) and Nasa (Smarty Jones). 

This filly was the second yearling by shuttler Street Boss that Newhaven sold during the week with a colt by the Darley stallion selling to Ciaron Maher Racing for $250,000 on Sunday and Kelly admitted it was the perfect time to sell yearlings by the Northwood Park-based sire largely due to the exploits of brilliant colt Hanseatic, who was last seen running a close second in the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and is the current favourite for the Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). 

"It is the perfect time to sell a Street Boss, Hanseatic is still the Slipper favourite - so it's a great time," said Kelly. 

"She was very popular from the first time that we showed her - I don't think we showed her to a person that didn't like her. She's been very well admired and she had lovely clean x-rays, number one scope and she sold accordingly.

"The sale has been terrific and I think Inglis' should be congratulated on the quality of the buying bench they've got here and the complex improves every time we come back and it's been a great market if you've got a horse they like."

Street Boss is the sire of 39 stakes winners worldwide, with 18 of them being fillies - two of which are elite level winners - and Dwyer said he was a fan of Street Boss especially given his ability to produce a top-class filly. 

However, Dwyer also said the filly had a lot of Fastnet Rock about her and he has proved himself a very good broodmare sire being represented by 25 stakes winners out of his daughters. 

"Street Boss is a really good sire of fillies, from a Fastnet Rock mare. She had a lot of Fastnet Rock about her, a big strong, bay coloured filly," said Dwyer. 

"A lot of these Street Boss' can be compact sprinting horses, but this had a bit of length about it as well. It wouldn't surprise me if she was a nice 1400 metre filly at some stage. She was a beautiful athlete, beautiful walker, I thought she was as nice a filly as there was on the complex. A Street Boss making that sort of price tag would suggest she is as nice a filly as there is here.  

"It was over what I thought she'd make. I thought she was probably a $200,000 to $250,000 filly but obviously others had similar expectations of her as I did and everyone was keen to have her, I couldn't be happier talking her home, a nice VOBIS filly.

"When you start spending money like that, you need to be getting black type as well and if they are winning black type races, the Vobis is slightly secondary, But VOBIS overall is an amazing scheme and certainly the benchmark for any state in Australia. We certainly mark horses up that have VOBIS on them."