APG Melbourne sale starts to heat up

Harnesslink is covering the harness racing Australian Pacing Gold sale at Melbourne today and we have broken it down into four groups of 50 lots.

This report covers the lots from Lot 51 to 100.

After a very subdued start in the first 50 lots , todays sale gained some real momentum between lots 50 and 100.

The sale took off when Lot 55 walked into the ring.

A big upstanding son of Art Major from the 1:53. Julius Caesar mare Pembrook Caesar ($77,432) who is a half sister to the champion New Zealand pacer Pembrook Benny 1:53($907,890) the colt is heading to the All Stars barn in New Zealand having being purchased by one of their leading clients in Trevor Casey.

It was a spirited and prolonged bidding duel before Trevor prevailed for $110,000.

That sale seemed to kick the whole sale up a gear and from there the prices seemed noticeably stronger.

After 10 passings in the first 50 lots, the number of passings dropped to just six lots from the second 50 lots.

While there were no other six figure lots, there was a very strong market around the $40,000 to $60,000 bracket.

The second highest price after the six figure colt was Lot 73.

A Bettor's Delight filly from the 1:58.3 Artsplace mare Sapphire Lil ($58,223), she was knocked down to Nicole Molander for $62,000.

Three other yearlings topped the $50,000 mark.

Lot 51 – A Bettor's Delight colt from the 1:55.9 Badlands Hanover mare Ourbellabro was sold to Andy Gath for $52,000

Lot 81 – A Art Major colt from the 1:58.6 McArdle mare She's Got It All who made $53,000

Lot 89 – A Sportswriter colt half brother to Follow The Stars ($707,237) who made $57,500

Other lots to make more than $30,000 included

* Lot 65 – A colt by Art Major from a 2:00 Safely Kept mare Radical Storm  –  $38,000

*Lot 67  – A colt by Art Major from a 1:57.7 Western Terror mare in Rhodium Castle which was sold to big spending owner, Merv Butterworth for $40,000

* Lot 69  – A filly by Bettor's Delight from the 1:56.2 Classic Garry mare in Sabette  –  $46,000

* Lot 72  – A filly by Somebeachsomewhere who is a half sister to Major Cruiser 1:56.2 ($56,970) who was sold to Emilio Rosati for $33,000

*Lot 79  –  A Courage Under Fire filly from the 1:56.7 Falcon Seelster mare Sheez The Barmaid  $30,000 

* Lot 82  – A Rock N Roll Heaven half brother to Ideal Tyson 1:55.5   –  $40,000

* Lot 92 – A Art Major full brother to Art Shadow 1:57.5 ($114,448)  –  $46,000

* Lot 97  –  A Sportswriter colt from a half sister to Border Control ($515,435)  –  $35,000

* Lot 99  –  A American Ideal full brother to Ideal For Real $182,485)  –  $36,000

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