The second foal, and first colt, out of champion Australia race mare Winx is set to attract global interest when he is offered for public auction at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next year.
The colt, by Australia’s four-time leading sire Snitzel, will go through the Inglis Riverside sales ring in Sydney during the sale, to be conducted over two days – March 29 and 30 – next year.
“To have the first male offspring of the mighty Winx coming to the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale is an absolute thrill and something we’re hugely grateful to the ownership group for,’’ said Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch.
Winx’s first foal, a filly by Pierro, sold for $10 million – an Australian record for a thoroughbred – at Inglis Easter last year.
The filly, now named Quinceanera, was purchased by Winx part-owner Debbie Kepitis under her Woppitt Bloodstock banner. Kepitis, who bought out other partners Peter and Patty Tighe, Elizabeth Treweeke and Rick Treweeke to claim outright ownership, has the filly in work with Winx’s trainer Chris Waller.
“The thrill the sale of the Pierro filly last year gave the ownership group was indescribable, it absolutely blew our minds,” Peter Tighe said. “The journey Winx, and then her Pierro daughter, has taken us on has been incredible and now somebody else gets the rare opportunity to buy a son of arguably the greatest race mare we have ever seen, certainly in our eyes at least.’’
Added Kepitis: “He’s a very handsome boy. Just wait until you see him, he’s got everything going for him. From the day he was born he’s been a very charismatic horse.”
Hutch believes that the colt will draw international attention, just like Quinceanera did. Prominent American investor John Stewart was the underbidder on the filly.
“(The colt’s) presence at next year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale is going to make for a captivating spectacle,” Hutch said. “I have been lucky enough to see this colt a number of times through his development. He has always looked like a good horse and I think he is going to present as a very good yearling at the sale.
“The sale typically engages an incredibly broad group of bloodstock investors and enthusiasts from around the world anyway, but having this colt as the focal point of the sale is only going to enhance that further.”
Winx was not served in 2024. She has been booked in to visit boom stallion Too Darn Hot this spring. ∎
