27 March 2018 | PETER WHARTON
A RECORD average price and a high clearance rate were the salient points of the very successful Bathurst Gold Crown Yearling Sale held at the Bathurst Showground last Sunday.
The overall average for 76 lots sold was $10,240 with the colts averaging $11,650 and the fillies $9,000.
The sale grossed $778,250 and the clearance rate was over 75 per cent.
The top price of $36,000 was shared by two fillies, one by emerging sire Shoobees Place from the 1:56 Art Major mare Tick The Boxes NZ, offered by Maitland studmaster Paul Carmody, and the other an Art Major filly out of the Blissfull Hall mare Ark Elaine (1:57.7), consigned by Parkes breeder Tony Dumesny.
The highest price paid for a colt was $32,000 for the brown colt by first crop sire Sunshine Beach out of the $104,000 winning Jet Laag mare Gloria Lombo, also offered by Tony Dumesny.
A colt by Shoobees Place from the 1:56 Modern Art mare Lavish Art, offered by the Carmody’s Lochend Stud, was knocked down for $30,000.
Auctioneer Graeme Board was delighted with the sale.
“The horses were presented well and there was a strong benchmark of buyers. Overall, it was a very good result,” Mr Board said.
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