The transition from racehorse to stallion went to a new level for Darley freshman sire Exosphere on Day 2 of the Inglis Classic yearling sale in Sydney with a filly by the G1 winner selling for $250,000.
The figure eclipsed the previous best for Exosphere set at $230,000 by a member of his first offering at last month’s Magic Millions Sale.
Catalogued as Lot 182, the filly is from the Cape Cross mare Casilda and is closely related to the champion racehorse and sire High Chaparral.
Casilda, a winner of two races in England and a G3 placegetter at Newmarket, is from a prominent Aga Khan family that has produced a string of Stakes winners including Kozana, the champion filly of France in 1985.
Kozana is the granddam of High Chaparral and his G2-winning brother Black Bear Island.
The filly was consigned by Queensland farm Glenlogan Park, purchased by Peter Karlsson and will be trained by Joe Pride who conditioned Denman's son, Kuro, to four Listed victories and four Group placings, two of these at G1 level.
Exosphere led what proved a strong day for the Darley stallions with his colt from the unraced Danehill mare Entrancement selling for $130,000 to prominent agent Guy Mulcaster.
The colt, a half-brother to four winners and a member a family of French Stakes winners including Interval, Cheyenne Dream and Zambezi Sun, was consigned by New Zealand breeder Wentwood Grange.
Last year’s sale-topper, Brazen Beau, attracted interest again with Lot 256, his colt from the Stakes-winning Octagonal mare Diamond Cove, fetching $190,000.
The colt is a half-brother to the G3 winner Montauk and five others and is related to the Stakes winner Kidman’s Cove and his dam Settler’s Cove, a Listed winner as a two-year-old in Sydney.
Among other notable sales, Lot 236, a colt by first-crop stallion Kermadec from the unraced Encosta De Lago mare Dabrowski sold for $90,000, with Lot 318, another Kermadec, selling for the same price.
The colt consigned by Attunga Stud and purchased by Triple Crown Syndications is out of Final Stretch, a winning Canny Lad mare whose dam is the champion New Zealand juvenile Lycra.
The 251 lots sold on the first two days of the sale grossed $19.6 million at an average of $78,000.
The sale continues on Monday, 11 February
