Winx filly units report with eye-watering AU$10m price ticket

The one foal of tremendous mare Winx has set a brand new report value by promoting for AU$10 million (£5,219,055) at public sale to her well-known dam’s part-owner.

The 2022 filly (“Lot 391”), by Pierro, was consigned by powerhouse operation Coolmore and offered for the report sum to Woppitt Bloodstock following an electrical bidding battle with Resolute Racing’s John Stewart on the second day of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in Australia.

She is at present the only real residing offspring of Winx, the distinctive mare who received 25 Group Ones throughout her racing profession.

The public sale home has said that this can be a new world report value for a yearling filly. It additionally units a brand new yearling report value within the Southern Hemisphere.

“I didn’t come right here to purchase this horse initially. We put her up for public sale after which previously few weeks, all the household, we began to overlook our ‘daughter/granddaughter’ so we simply determined as finest we might, if we might get her, we’d,’’ stated Woppitt Bloodstock’s Debbie Kepitis stated post-sale.

“I’m privileged to have been capable of safe this filly on behalf of my household. She’s Australian for ever and she or he’s going to be simply fabulous. Thanks to everyone world wide who has taken this on board, it’s been thrilling to observe it and we’re fortunate sufficient that we got here out winners.”

Coolmore’s Tom Magnier stated he had by no means seen something prefer it.

“You wouldn’t see this wherever else on the earth,’’ Magnier stated. “You wouldn’t see the build-up, you wouldn’t see the hype and ambiance at present, I’ve by no means witnessed something prefer it at any public sale home world wide.

“It’s simply the proper story. I knew she was going to make a really excessive determine as a result of someone is shopping for historical past. She is a traditional, a collectors’ merchandise and there’s just one one that deserved this at present, and that’s Debbie.

“It’s a dream story. I don’t assume you possibly can put a worth on a filly like that. It’s simply unimaginable, I’m delighted.”

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