The Inglis Chairman’s Sale produced another big banger hot on the heels of Montefilia with the Matthew Smith trained Group I ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes winner Nimalee selling for $3.6million.
Consigned by Glenesk Thoroughbreds as a breeding proposition, Nimalee was bought by Colm Santry Bloodstock/ Coolmore Australia.
Purchased as a yearling for $270,000 from Inglis Premier by Randwick Bloodstock, the daughter of So You Think raced for Lester and Margaret Durney of Letmar Investments and was bred by Cressfield winning eight of 27 starts earning $1.7million.
“She was the queen of the sale and she was the one all the Magnier family loved,” Colm Santry told Jemma Cutting of Inglis.
“She was the more expensive So You Think yearling in her year and has a deep pedigree that goes back to European blood and is packed with G1 winners.
“We can mate her to any of our stallions Wootton Bassett or Justify and in time she’d be a lovely mare for Shinzu. We’d love to be able to breed a stallion from her one day.”
At $3.6million, Nimalee is the most expensive broodmare ever sold at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.
