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Entries are now open for this year’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale
Blake Ryan is establishing himself as a trainer on the rise, but he has long been respected as one of the country's conditioners of horses for ready-to-run sales.
His excitement levels are therefore on the rise following the news that entries are now open for this year's Inglis Ready2Race Sale.
Horses will not be offered for sale until October 11, but Ryan has already identified a strong team of around 20 that he will be preparing for the series, which commences with a number of breeze-up sessions in the month lead up to the sale.
The Inglis Ready2Race Sale has produced horses including Nettoyer, Lightsaber, Allibor, Forgot You, Wishful Thinker, Gunstock and Douceur in recent years, which Ryan said has taken it to a new level.
Traditionally, it has been a sale the Asian market has targeted heavily.
"The local buying bench has really come to the fore the past couple of years especially," Ryan said.
"It's a sale that just continues to go from strength to strength and I know from my own perspective that this is the biggest and strongest draft I've ever taken and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
"You can take a nice horse to this sale and sell it well. The quality of offering has also improved out of sight and they're all going on and winning races, which brings the buyers back the following year and that's so important.''
Vendors have until Friday, August 5 to enter their horses with the first set of breeze-ups to take place at Seymour in Victoria on Friday September 9.
Further sessions at Eagle Farm (Wednesday, September 14), Warwick Farm (Friday, September 16 and Friday, October 7) and Cambridge in New Zealand (Monday, September 19) ahead of the sale at Inglis's Riverside Stables complex.
High-quality video footage of each breeze, as well as all times, will be available on the Inglis website within days of the gallops.
Last year's sale had a record gross of $12,016,500, the highest-ever average ($109,241) for a 2YO ready-to-run sale in Australia and produced an $80,000 median with 46 lots selling for $100,000 or more.
Leading trainers including Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, Freedman Racing, Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou, Annabel Neasham, Ben and Jd Hayes and Robbie Griffiths and Mathew De Kock were among those bought horses in 2021.
"There is no fluke in the success this sale has enjoyed the past few years especially, both for vendors and buyers,'' Inglis Senior Bloodstock Consultant, Harry Bailey, said.
"We work closely with vendors all year round to assist them in hopefully recruiting the right horses to breeze up and we have put a huge amount of work into developing a buying bench of real substance featuring both domestic and international buyers at all levels.
"The buyer sheet for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale the past couple of years has been comparable to a Classic Sale or a Premier Sale and with the increased strength this year's catalogue is already shaping up with, I'm confident a huge range of buyers – both domestic and international - are again going to be impressed.''