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Group-performed mare stars at Inglis online sale.
Multiple Group 3 winner Flying Mascot has a date with Snitzel after being bought by Arrowfield Stud at the Inglis Digital August (Late) Sale.
The Flying Start Syndications-raced Tavistock mare, who was bought for just $25,000 and was trained by Tom Dabernig, was on Wednesday knocked down for $600,000 – just under $35,000 less than she earned during her decorated racing career.
Arrowfield's Jon Freyer said she was an attractive proposition for the farm given its outstanding roster.
"She's well-bred and could go to almost any of our stallions on the farm at Arrowfield, but unless people change their minds, she'll be visiting Snitzel in the very near future,'' Freyer said.
"We'll bring her home and breed her this season because we think she'll make a beautiful broodmare.
"The price was basically where we thought we would have to go to secure her. I mean she ran against and defeated some really high-class fillies, she was just beaten by Probabeel, she beat Mariamia.
"The form around her was indicative of a filly on the cusp of Group 1 ability and those sorts of fillies don't come cheaply.''
The second-top lot of the sale was Gin Martini (Rip Van Winkle), who sold to Lime Country Thoroughbreds for $220,000.
Other strong results in the August (Late) Sale included the Hesket Thoroughbreds-offered Syncretism – which sold to Walnut Farm for $210,000 – and Sur La Mer, which realised $150,000 to John Hutchinson's Scone Bloodstock.
Sur La Mer was one of three horses offered by Denise Martin's Star Thoroughbreds, joining Arranmore ($70,000) and Septaria ($35,000), at the sale that grossed $4,281,550.