Mehmas Colt Among the Headline Acts on Day Two of Inglis Premier

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By TTR AusNZ

Lot 428, a colt by Tally-Ho Stud stallion Mehmas (Ire), was among the top lots on day two of the 2025 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale when Dominic Sutton signed the docket with McKeever Bloodstock and Byron Rogers for A$420,000.

Offered by Penfold Thoroughbreds, the colt is out of Salmah (Fr) (Shalaa {Ire}), a half-sister to the dual Listed winner Tuned (Aus) (Toronado {Ire}), who was also placed at Group level in the US on several occasions. Their dam Zagora (Fr) (Green Tune) is the big attraction on the page. The US Champion Grass Female was a dual Grade I winner, notably winning the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, amongst eight stakes wins on either side of the Atlantic. She is also a half-sister to the G2 UAE Derby runner-up and sire Asmar (Ire).

“[He's] a beautiful horse, neat with a massive walk, and a lovely horse to do anything with, though we did not expect that price–the reserve was only A$50,000!” said an elated Sam Matthews of Swettenham Stud.

The colt was bred by Al Shaqab Racing, who part-own Mehmas, as well as having ownership of Shalaa (Ire), and Matthews was pleased to see the fruits of their support for Swettenham pay off.

“Mehmas is a super stallion up north,” he said. “Al Shaqab Racing wanted to support Toronado with well-bred international mares, so they sent two down for him, both in foal to Mehmas. They wanted to try something a bit different and will now try this sort of thing again in the future.”

Matthews was also pleased to see the result for Penfold Thoroughbreds as vendors.

He added, “This is Hannah Penfold's first draft [at Inglis Premier]. She worked at Swettenham Stud–she actually foaled this colt down–and we wanted to support her as we have before with Crossley Thoroughbreds and Collingrove Stud.”

Salmah has a colt on the ground by Toronado and visited Castelvecchio (Aus) in the spring.

 

Lot 428 (Mehmas x Salmah) sells for $420k from the Penfold Thoroughbreds draft to @suttonracingdom! Good luck to those involved in this colt! #InglisPremier pic.twitter.com/6Nj2Xa4UeI

— Inglis (@inglis_sales) March 3, 2025

 

Inglis Delighted with 'Extraordinary' Results

Monday's session wrapped up Book 1 of the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale took place on Monday. Whilst there were no further A$1-million yearlings, after colts by Frankel (GB) and Toronado (Ire) reached that figure on Sunday, Inglis' Sebastian Hutch explained afterwards that the success of the sale had surpassed all expectations.

“If you had said to me or any other participant that we'd end up with figures up on 12 months ago I don't think any of us would've believed you,” said Hutch. “People generally expected the sale to be down so to be up is verging on the extraordinary.”

Hutch was especially pleased with the quality of yearlings who made their way to Oaklands Junction.

“Led by the likes of Rosemont, Yulong and Gilgai, we were able to provide horses who had great appeal to the buying bench,” he said. “Vendors supported us with an outstanding group of horses which gave people the incentive to attend and to participate.

“There were some really incredible prices for particular horses and what is most encouraging from our point of view is the variety of people participating. There were lots of different buyers and there always seemed to be a different underbidder and that's a good sign for the market.”

Hutch was also excited to see different sorts of stallions to the norm proving very popular.

“It is not as though the likes of Camelot, Mehmas and Earthlight have had anything big happen here recently to drive their big results,” he summed up. “It's astonishing really.”

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