Wednesday, 17th April 2024
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A colt purchased for just $18,000 at last year’s Great Southern Weanling Sale – held online due to Covid – has topped today’s second and final day of the HTBA May Yearling Sale at Riverside. Lot 238, a Russian Revolution x Lucinda’s Moon (Malibu Moon) colt offered by Kingstar Farm, sold to Bevan Smith Bloodstock and Singapore’s Kuldeep Singh Rajput for $145,000, eclipsing the Day 1 top price of $140,000 for a Capitalist colt, ensuring it ended as the overall sale-topper. “The back story of the colt is that Matthew [Sandblom], the boss, bought him online through the Inglis Digital site for $18,000 and fortunately enough for the ladies who run his farm at Kiama (Hollymount Stud), Michelle [Harris] and Kristy [Marsh], the colt came home and they liked him and they said, ‘we’d like to buy half, Matthew’,’’ Kingstar’s Adam Cook explained. “Once again it emphasises what sort of boss Matthew is.’’ Interestingly, the dam of the sale-topping colt, Lucinda’s Moon, will sell – in foal to popular young stallion Capitalist - as Lot 449 at Sunday’s Australian Broodmare Sale at Riverside in the Toolooganvale Farm draft.
