Anamoe filly tops Inglis Great Southern sale as records fall

The Anamoe filly at the top of Inglis Great Southern was more than a flashy number. Her AU$825,000 price at Oaklands Junction told the market what buyers were paying for in late-season weanlings: proven female families, fashionable young sires and the kind of residual value that still pulls money in a selective ring.

The two-day sale on June 11-12 produced record figures across the board. Inglis catalogued 430 lots from 105 stallions and 48 vendors, and the auction grossed AU$15,289,500, up 51 percent from the previous benchmark of AU$12,140,600 set in 2024. The average rose to AU$51,829 and the median to AU$25,000, both sale records, while 55 weanlings cleared AU$100,000 or more. That is the sort of spread that suggests the appetite was not confined to one trophy lot.

The top price belonged to Lot 406, a filly by Anamoe out of Femme Fireball from Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, bought by Yulong. The AU$825,000 result equaled the sale record for an individual lot and made her the highest-priced weanling sold in Australia this year at that point. Anamoe matters here because he is one of Darley’s key young commercial stallions, but the dam line mattered just as much: Femme Fireball is an 11-year-old mare by Pierro out of Subtitle, with seven wins and AU$260,050 in prizemoney. Buyers were not just paying for a stallion name. They were paying for a pedigree that has already produced something the market can price with confidence.

That distinction is important because Great Southern did not look like a one-horse market. Inglis said the combined Great Southern and Australian Weanling sales reached a record AU$34,984,000 for the season, 19 percent above the previous high. James Price said many vendors held back their best weanlings for Great Southern, and the sale drew strong support from major farms including Yulong, Rosemont, Yarraman, Twin Hills, Three Bridges, Supreme, Stonehouse, Noorilim, Musk Creek, Longwood and Gilgai. That is the sort of participation that keeps pinhookers interested and gives end users real competition.

The sale’s earlier graduates still hang over the market too. Streisand, bought for AU$22,000, went on to win the Group 1 Blue Diamond and run second in the Group 1 Golden Slipper, while Well Written, bought for AU$32,500, is unbeaten from six starts, including a Group 1 and The Kiwi. That track record is why Great Southern keeps drawing money when the right weanling lands in the ring.