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Most expensive lot on Thursday sells to Jim Carey for $250,000.
The most expensive lot sold on the second day of the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale on Thursday was a filly by Deep Field who was bought by Jim Carey for $250,000.
Catalogued as Lot 306 from the draft of Newgate, the filly is the first foal out of the dual winning All Too Hard (Casino Prince) mare Reginae. She is herself a half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Fuhryk (Star Witness) being out of the Listed placed Fuhrnatic (Langfuhr).
Newgate Farm's Deep Field had four weanlings sell for $630,000 at an average of $157,500, finishing the sale as the second leading sire by average (three or more lots sold) behind Too Darn Hot.
Fillies accounted for the top two lots to sell on Thursday with a daughter of Coolmore Australia's So You Think (High Chaparral) the second most expensive weanling sold during the second session when bought by Fernrigg Farm and Avesta Bloodstock for $160,000.
Offered by Bell River Thoroughbreds as Lot 294, the filly is out of the unraced Commands (Danehill) mare Premediated who has produced two winners to date including the stakes placed Grim Reaper (Domesday).
The filly's dam is a half-sister to the dual Listed winner Malice (Teofilo).
"I bought her with Fernrigg Farm and we both really like the filly," said Avesta Bloodstock's Jimmy Unwala.
"She was a very good moving filly. We saw her a couple of times and saw her back out again out this morning and she strutted out beautifully. Action sells a lot of horses and we turn over horses.
"She's out of a Commands mare, a half to a stakes horse and from a very good family.
"A Flying Artie colt out of that mare who sold for $150,000 at Classic this year and we were looking at him as a breeze up horse. He made $150,000, so made plenty and this filly was even better for me than that colt.
So You Think currently heads the leading sires table in Australia, enjoying a very successful season on the racetrack that include a trio of Group 1 winners on the second day of The Championships last month.
"The stallion is going very well. He had a big weekend at the Championships, but even before that, he's been going well. He's a very underrated stallion," Unwala added.
