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Group placed daughter of Hinchinbrook is bought by Springmount via Inglis Digital.
Michael Flennery's Springmount secured Celestial Falls (Hinchinbrook) for $465,000 on Friday after the mare was offered by Inglis Digital in the Spring Boutique Sale on behalf of Darby Racing.
Celestial Falls was trained by Mark Newnham having been bought for $80,000 by Darby Racing and De Burgh Equine at the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. She went on to win twice and place six times in 11 career starts earning almost $160,000.
The five-year-old daughter of Hinchinbrook (Fastnet Rock) placed last year in The Roses (Gr 2, 1800m) and the Ethereal Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) the year prior and is likely to be covered by Written Tycoon (Iglesia) this spring with Springmount acquiring the mare on behalf of a client.
"She is obviously a lovely mare and they have been very hard to buy the last little while so we are very pleased to secure her for a very good client of the farm," said Flannery.
"It's pleasing to have mares of this quality residing at Springmount.''
Darby Racing offered four-year-old mare Every Rose (Choisir) on the Inglis Digital platform last month and Scott Darby is pleased with the results.
"If you'd told me on September 1 that we would have sold two mares on Inglis Digital in the next month for almost $2 million, I would have laughed but the rise and rise of the platform just continues to make huge steps,'' Darby said.
"It's a terrific result and a bit of a chain reaction I suppose – Every Rose went to Inglis Digital off the back of results like Funstar (who sold for $2.7 million) and then when she sold so well (for $1.3 million), it was really quite an easy decision to send Celestial Falls there as well.
"In this market you can get a little bullish but we set the reserve at $300,000, I thought she would make between $300,000-$400,000 and anything over $450,000 would be beyond your wildest dreams, so to get $465,000 for her is just fantastic for the owners.
"It's just such a strong market at the moment and it brings an end to an era for us with Celestial Falls and her half sister Greysful Glamour now both sold for almost $2m which is extraordinary.''
Inglis Digital's Nick Melmeth was understandably delighted with the result.
"That brings to 75 the number of $100,000+ lots for the platform so far, which is really excellent," Melmeth said.
"We have some exciting lots to offer through October and we are really looking forward to putting more excellent catalogues together as we work with vendors and buyers to identify their optimum sale solutions."
Entries are now open for the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale, which runs from the 8th-13th.
Entries close on Wednesday October 6.
