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Group 3 winner to be retired and sent to champion stallion.
A visit to soon-to-be-crowned Australian Champion Sire I Am Invincible awaits How Womantic, who was one of the star performers in the Inglis Digital Sale that concluded on Wednesday.
The Group 3-winning daughter of The Wow Signal was one of four horses to sell for at least $300,000 when she sold to Matt Becker's Group 1 Bloodstock for exactly that amount.
Three-time Sydney winner and Listed placegetter Gibraltar Girl topped the sale at $365,000, while Stradbroke Handicap placegetter Signore Fox and Sunlight's half-sister Solar Cry both sold for $310,000.
How Womantic was scratched from last Saturday's G3 Sir John Monash Stakes owing to the wet track, meaning she retires with a record of five wins from 16 starts and $504,000 in stakes.
"I bought her on behalf of a partnership, for Bill Pearce and Rob Cummings, she will be retired now and will likely visit I Am Invincible," Becker said.
"We saw How Womantic at Ciaron's [Maher] farm this morning and we really liked her on type. We love these speed mares anyway, but she has a lot of quality, a deep girth and a big, strong mare overall.
"She has a lovely way about her and we just liked her immediately. She is everything you want in a yearling so hopefully she pass on her traits and 'Vinnie' is a great stallion to start off a young mare's breeding career."
In addition to the four $300,000-plus lots, another six sold for at least $100,000, including former boom Tasmanian filly Hela, who sold for $150,000, and Flemington winner Hasstobegood, who sold for $120,000.
The 335-lot sale grossed $5,402,150 at a clearance rate of 79 percent.
Gibraltar Girl, a daughter of Manhattan Rain and Gibraltar Campion, has been added to Yulong's ever-expanding broodmare band after being sold in-foal to Capitalist.
"She's from a family we know well through Mr Zhang's first Stakes winner in Australia, Holy Snow," Yulong's Sam Fairgray said.
Before her trip to Newgate to visit Capitalist, Gibraltar Girl had two visits to Snitzel and produced two fillies, one of which sold for $425,000 at this year's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
Solar Cry, who is in-foal to Flying Artie, is off to New Zealand after being bought by Cambridge Stud, while Signore Fox was purchased by Spartus Bloodstock.