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Amanda Turner Racing finishes the sale as second leading buyer
Two juveniles sold for $370,000 to Amanda Turner Racing Tuesday, the first of these being a gelding by Newgate Farm's Capitalist (Written Tycoon) who was offered by Blake Ryan Racing as Lot 40.
The gelding is out of USA-bred Grade Three-winning Bernstein (Storm Cat) Orchestrator from the family of Zuzuland (Fastnet Rock) and he had breezed in a time of 10.13 seconds.
Later on in the day, Turner bought a colt by Coolmore Australia's Pierro (Lonhro), her second $370,000 purchase. Offered by New Zealand-based Cheltenham Stables as Lot 115, the colt is the first foal out of winning mare Ajeeta (I Am Invincible).
Tuner finished the day as the second-top buyer behind only Trilogy Racing, a relatively new entity headed by Jason and Melanie Stenning who spent just shy of $1m and said the two horses she purchased "made for a dream day''.
"They were the two I wanted and realistically you never get to take home 100 per cent of what you want but I was lucky today that I did,'' Turner said.
"The Pierro, I actually went to look at another one from the draft and then they said I should have a look at the Pierro and as soon as I did I said 'you shouldn't have shown me him, I had him marked and now I think I'm going to have to buy him'. There's plenty of upside with him, you can really see it.
"The Capitalist was a very athletic horse, I spoke to Blake [Ryan] as well and while he'll be no doubt sad to lose the horse, he's got a hell of a good price for it and I think he's worth every cent of it.
"I was getting a bit edgy to be honest. I was hoping $250,000-$270,000 would get him but I told myself to just keep on going because he was the one I really wanted. I'm glad I did, it's a good feeling.''
Ryan added, on the colt that was an $85,000 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale purchase:
"We had a reserve of $200,000 on him and he more than exceeded that obviously, it's a fantastic result.
"I couldn't be happier, he paraded well all week, he was popular, vetting numbers were through the roof.
"He's now the most expensive horse I've ever sold here, it's really testament to the promotional work Inglis has done in the lead-up behind the scenes to get the sale these legs. Everyone knew it was on and there were plenty of people here to buy or online to buy.''
There were some outstanding pinhook results, headed by lot 90, a colt out of Flying Artie (Artie Schiller) who was sold by Blake Ryan for $220,000 having been bought for just $20,000 at the Inglis May Yearling Sale. Meanwhile the Vancouver (Medaglia d'ora) - Purity (Ferocity) colt made $320,000 having been purchased at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for $120,000.
