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  • $450k Zoustar Filly Tops Final Classic Day

    Wednesday, 10th February 2021

    The top lot on Day 3 of the 2021 Inglis Classic Sale (Book 1) was the Zoustar x Empress Zakynthos filly (pictured) of Clarke & Croft Bloodstock, purchased by Bruce MacKenzie for $450,000. She became the most expensive filly ever sold at a Classic Sale. MacKenzie said he didn’t care what he had to pay for her to bring her home. “I’ve been here for days and every night I’d go down to her barn and pat her for 10 minutes and scratch her head and I’d look her in the eye and tell here I’d be taking her home. Nobody was stopping me,’’ the ecstatic buyer said. Bidding on the filly was going up in lots of $10,000 as she approached $400,000 before MacKenzie launched into a $50,000 bid to her final price of $450,000. “I used to follow boxing, you soon learn a quick punch knocks them down and it knocked them all down, didn’t it,’’ MacKenzie said. The filly was the sole offering for the Clarke & Croft team at the sale, but the result was worth the wait. “We are so happy, I really thought she deserved a fair bit of money, but that is fantastic,’’ Sam Croft said. “Our previous best result was $150,000 so this is by far the best result I have ever had. “We have been selling here for somewhere between 16 and 18 years, we like to come here to Classic so we can stand out. We feel that small vendors are given a bit better of a chance here at Classic.’’

    Zoustar x Empress Zakynthos filly

    Record setting $450k Zoustar x Empress Zakynthos filly (pic: inglis.com.au)