Highest priced Yearlings from the Inglis Melb Premier sales

Date of release: April 11th, 2025

Melb PREMIER Yearling Sale 2024

▪️current 2yo age - The “highest priced” yearlings.

♦️yearlings sold for over $300,000+ [lower price base]

This sale had 29 yearlings sold for $300k+ and very few of this current crop of 2yo’s have started in a race

◽️Just 5 [17%] of these highest priced 2yo’s have made it onto the track.

Thank goodness for the undefeated VINROCK, otherwise its a really poor early showing and low performance base.

◻️Only 1 has won a race - VINROCK, a G1 winner at 2yo and only cost $300,000.

◻️The combined record on the other 4 to have raced is:

6 starts: 0-1-0 for combined prize money of $13,500

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Melb PREMIER Yearling Sale 2023

▪️current 3yo age - The “highest priced” yearlings.

♦️yearlings sold for over $300,000+ [lower price base]

This sale had 31 yearlings sold for $300k+ and has a great strike rate that 28 of them [90%]  have made it to the races.

◻️Disappointing that only 3 of the 31[9%] have earned more prize money then their sale price - considering they have been of racing age for almost 18 months.

Angel Capital - $p/m: $600,000 - cost $400,000

Red Aces - $p/m: $430,000 - cost $380,000

Kuroyanagi - $p/m: $396,000 - cost $390,000

◻️Disappointing that 14 or the 28 to have raced…. Have not won yet !

Have not won a race [considering these are the highest priced yearlings] that were hand selected by the people who shape the breeding industry, and possibly look over these horses a collective 40-50 times throughout the sales inspections.

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Inglis Melb PREMIER  2022 - now 4yo

▪️current 4yo age - The “highest priced” yearlings.

♦️yearlings sold for over $300,000+

This sale had an unbelievable 47 yearlings sold for $300k+ [lower base price sale]

◽️42 of these [89%] highest priced [now 4yo’s] made it onto the track.

❌ Only 3 of these 42 [7%] horses have earned more prize money than his sales cost

[2 in Hong Kong] Markwin & Packing Hermod, plus recent Victorian winner ENXUTO who just passed his sales cost by +$20,000]

❌ 9 of the 42 [21%] runners, have not won a race, deep into their 4yo year.

❌ 14 of the 42 [33%], have only won 1 race

🕳️ so those last two figures show almost 55%% of the highest priced yearlings have won 1 race or less.  Not a good ratio for the geniuses that inspect them and have the yearlings out of their box so many times during the early days of the auction.

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Inglis Melb PREMIER  2021 - now 5yo

▪️current 5yo age - The “highest priced” yearlings.

♦️yearlings sold for over $300,000+

This sale had 35 yearlings sold for $300k+ [lower base price sale]

◽️33 of them [94%] of these highest priced graduates [now 5yo] have made it onto the track.

◻️Fairly low number - 5 of the 33 [highest priced by the expert buyers] has earned more prize money then their sales cost.

❌ 8 of the 33 [24%] runners, have not won a race, deep into their 5yo year.

❌ 4 of the 33 [12%], have only won 1 race

🕳️ so the combined number of horses from the elite or most expensive of this draft [racing age now 5yo] that have won only 1 race or less is 12 of 33 [36%], furthermore only 5 of this top sector have earned more than their cost.