Anamoe breeding right tops Inglis Digital opener at AU$450,000

Anamoe’s breeding right sold for AU$450,000 to Bangaloe Stud’s Julia Ritchie, and the price instantly turned Inglis Digital Australia’s April (Late) Online Sale into a verdict on who the market trusts most among young sires.

The result led the opening session and matched the AU$450,000 paid for a breeding right in the same stallion in an Inglis Digital sale in February, confirming that access to Anamoe has already settled into a premium bracket. That kind of repeat demand matters because Anamoe is still only in the early stages of his stud career, yet buyers are acting as if the window to get involved is already narrowing.

Ritchie has been building both a broodmare band and a portfolio of stallion shares that fit her mares, and the move for Anamoe showed the appeal of locking in elite bloodlines early. Aristia Park sold the right on behalf of John Guscic, who said the online process was seamless and praised the Inglis team for its support.

The appetite is easy to understand. Anamoe retired after winning 14 races, more than $11 million in prizemoney, and nine Group 1 races, good enough to earn Horse of the Year honours before heading to Darley’s Kelvinside Stud in the Hunter Valley. Darley set his first-season service fee at AU$121,000, then reported that he served 149 mares in his first covering season in 2023. His first yearlings have already sold for up to AU$1.1 million, with leading trainers and bloodstock agents among the buyers, a commercial start that has only strengthened confidence in his long-term value.

The AU$450,000 result also said something larger about the market itself. Inglis catalogued 478 lots for the April (Late) Online Sale, which was the first Inglis Digital auction to close across multiple days. The opening session alone grossed AU$1,738,050 with an 84 per cent clearance rate, a solid performance before the inaugural Australian Broodmare Sale Session even came into play.

That broodmare session added 268 lots, made up of 200 broodmares and 68 race fillies, alongside 71 racehorses, 60 racehorse shares, 38 yearlings and 22 weanlings. In other words, the digital ring is no longer just a convenient fallback. It is becoming a serious market centre for major breeding deals, and Anamoe’s latest AU$450,000 result was the clearest sign yet that buyers are willing to pay up online for the right bloodline.