Later in the day a pair of lots sold for $200 000 respectively to secure their placings as the joint-second-top lots on the second day of trade.
Lot 273 the first of the duo to go under the hammer is a filly by Yulong’s Written Tycoon who sold to Ridgeport Holdings Clarken Bloodstock and Suman Hedge Bloodstock (FBAA).
The filly is out of Blue Morpho (Hussonet) who from 16 starts on the track managed three wins including landing the 2018 Laelia Stakes (Listed 1600m).
Clarken and his training partner Niki O’Shea know about the family with the filly’s brother the unraced Windrow and her Alabama Express half-sister who Clarken bought for $80 000 at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in 2021 both residents of their Murray Bridge stable.
“The quality always makes money and there have been some really nice types and there’s been no doubt that they have been well received. We were narrowly beaten on the Zoustar filly [Lot 255] earlier today and ...