Bargains Abound At Scone Sale
Monday, 21 April 2008: Unbeaten country filly Bel Said is another great advertisement for the remarkable bargains that regularly emerge from the Inglis Hunter Valley Thoroughbred Breeders Sale at Scone.
With two wins from two starts Bel Said is highly fancied for the $100,000 Inglis Challenge to be run on Scone Cup day on May 23.
She is a daughter of Royal Academy's champion sprinter Bel Esprit and I Say, a winning half-sister by Quest For Fame to another brilliant performer Keltrice.Yet she cost her trainer and part owner Mack Griffith only $700 as a yearling at the annual Scone mixed sale last year.
Bel Said has six owners with one being Phil Gunter, the Hunter Valley breeder of Bel Esprit who sold him for only $9000 at the Inglis Classic sale and then had the mortification of seeing him go on to earn over $2 million and become an immediate success as a sire.Bel Esprit, standing in Victoria, covered a world record book for one season last year of 266 mares.
The only Bel Esprit yearling available at the Scone sale this year is a filly out of Conte Partiro, a winning daughter of Danehill and the Gone West mare Freeway Daisy, on account of Goanna Downs, Scone, Mack Griffith and his brother Luke started training on Goanna Downs when it was owned by the family.
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