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Sale grosses $3,299,050 while Widden reduction sees 40 lots sell for $623,000
The latest Inglis Digital Sale - the March (Late) sale - concluded on Wednesday with 320 of the 403 lots offered sold at a clearance rate of 79 per cent. The sale grossed $3,299,050 while the average finished at $10,310 and the median was $5,000. The top lot meanwhile was former Snowden-trained gelding Construct (I Am Invincible), who sold to Singapore trainer Jason Lim for $110,000.
Offered by Newgate Farm, Construct is a stakes placed three-year-old who will now join Lim's stables in coming weeks."I really love this horse's turn of foot and how he can weave his way through traffic. He's also run a number of placings in very good races in Australia so I think he will fit into Singapore racing very well,'' Lim said.
"I'm a big fan of I Am Invincible, he's a fantastic stallion but they can take some time to fully mature and as a four-year-old, I think this horse's best is absolutely still ahead of him.
"Australian horses generally acclimatise very well here so he could be racing in a matter of months.
"I'm always on Inglis Digital, like every single day, checking out each catalogue and sometimes buying as well. I love it. It's a very easy site to understand and all the information we need is there and obviously being in Singapore, we rely on that a lot.''
Newgate's Henry Field believes Construct will be another successful graduate off the farm to be sold through the online platform.
"We sold Rule Of Law through Inglis Digital in April last year and he's lining up in a TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday against the best sprinters in the land so hopefully Construct can achieve similarly lofty heights in Singapore,'' Field said.
"Construct is just another fabulous result for us through Inglis Digital, I think everybody knows we love the platform and have been strong supporters from day one. Construct is a talented gelding who has a bright future and I'm confident he will be another successful Newgate product sold on Inglis Digital.''
The second-top lot was the Grahame Begg-offered Seguso (Redoute's Choice), who sold to Australian Bloodstock for $105,000.
The regally bred Seguso is out of Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) winner Shamal Wind (Dubawi) and will be trained by Cody Morgan in Tamworth and targeted at races such as the Kosciuszko and Country Championships.
"With the cut-off looming to have these sorts of horses locked into a stable for those races, we thought this horse suited perfectly for those sorts of races and off my ratings, he measures up to them,'' Australian Bloodstock's Luke Murrell said.
"He's a horse I think could win two Highways quite easily and then progress onto a race like the Kosciuszko later this year and even if he didn't get to that level that soon, the Country Championships next year would absolutely be the option there.''
One of other several highlights from the March (Late) Sale was the Widden reduction, which saw 40 horses entered. All 40 sold for a combined gross of $623,000.
"It's been a raging success, we're absolutely delighted by the spread of buyers on the platform from our regular supporters to buyers we haven't had a relationship with before,'' Widden's Matt Comerford said.
"To gross more than $600,000 from the 40 lots offered is far beyond what we were hoping to achieve when we went through the draft individually last week so we couldn't be happier. The entire Widden team has fielded a huge number of calls and email enquiries.
"I must thank Nick Melmeth, Steph Carruthers and the Inglis Digital team for making it such a seamless process, they were absolutely outstanding in all they did for us from helping with entries to the promotion of the draft and then to see the results eventuate today was very rewarding.
"Widden is a regular user of Inglis Digital, both as a vendor and a buyer and we look forward to every sale twice a month.''
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