The half-brother to World Champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom sold for "unbelievably good value" at today's first session of the William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Golden Slipper winning trainer Gai Waterhouse was the successful bidder for the Fastnet Rock-Courtroom Sweetie (Zeditave) colt, which was offered by Blue Gum Farm and sold for $350,000.
“He's a lovely big loose colt and I thought he was unbelievably good value in an incredibly hot sale,” Waterhouse said.
“This is equivalent to Keeneland.”
Sacred Kingdom, a son of Encosta De Lago, is the current idol of Hong Kong racing and enjoys the rating of the World's best sprinter.
He was a $200,000 graduate of the 2005 Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale and his wins include the Hong Kong International Sprint and Chairman's Sprint at Group 1 level.
Midway through the first session of the sale, the average was hovering around the $360,000 mark – well up on last year's overall sale average of $331,935.
Included among the early highlights was a Redoute's Choice-Coliape (Woodman) filly, which sold to Kris Lees for $1.8million.
The filly is bred on the same cross as Champion two and three-year-old Miss Finland.
A Redoute's Choice-Castellina filly had earlier sold for $1.1million, while a Flying Spur-Cantenac filly made $1million four lots earlier.
