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For the second-straight week, Tassort produces sale-topper.
For the second Sunday in a row, Tassort provided the top lot of an Inglis sale with a youngster from the Riversdale draft selling for $150,000 at the HTBA Sale in Sydney.
It came seven days after the son of Brazen Beau, who is the sire of ATC Sires' winner Manaal, had an $80,000 colt star at the VOBIS Gold Sale in Melbourne.
Lloyd Kennewell and Mat Becker's Group 1 Bloodstock won the battle for the HTBA sale-topper, who is out of the Snitzel mare Raahiyah, with the Cranbourne trainer delighted to get his hands on the colt.
"We've been shopping all year for Tassorts, he looks a stallion with a really bright future and he'll probably be crowned Champion First-Season Stallion,'' Kennewell said.
"I flew up for the very reason I thought he was the colt of the sale and he was exactly what I wanted to see when I got here on the grounds.
"He's a colt that was well sought-after, he was the best one here, the price suggests that and we got him so we're very happy.''
The Tassort colt was one of three lots to sell for six figures with a Time To Reign-Sweet Bouquet colt from Kingstar Farm the second top lot of the sale at $120,000.
A Hellbent filly out of Another Sunday, who is closely-related to Not A Single Doubt, King's Legacy and Oohood, was bought by Payne Racing for $115,000.
The 202-lot sale grossed a tick under $3 million at an average of $19,430 with a 75 percent clearance rate.
"We've had 16 lots realise $50,000 or more, while the figures for the clearance, average and median are within a reasonable range of the equivalent figures at the end of the sale 12 months ago," Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said.
"There is no disguising that the market at this level has challenges, but as is the case every year at this sale, there have been some excellent results and I have no doubt there will be some talented racehorses emerge from this sale."