Home Affairs Leads Inglis Easter First Season Sires

Home Affairs finished the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale earlier this week as the leading first season sire with 22 yearlings averaging $395,909 and his progeny are now set to enter the best racing stables in the country.

Home Affairs has made some history this year in topping both the Magic Millions Yearling Sale and the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and he’s done it with two youngsters that both sold for $3million or more.

Coolmore sold a filly from Champion 3YO Filly Sunlight at the Gold Coast for $3.2million to Japanese buyer Mitsu Nakauchida and in Sydney they sold a colt from dual Group I winner Shout the Bar for $3million to Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott / Kestrel Thoroughbreds. The filly has already been exported to Japan and the colt is a horse that everyone will be able to follow closely.

There have only ever been nine yearlings to sell in Australia for $3million or more and the only other sire to produce two of them is Redoute’s Choice, so Home Affairs is operating in lofty company.

Outside of his sale-topping colt from Shout the Bar, Home Affairs had great results with an $800,000 filly from Twinkle (IRE) going to First Light Racing and a $500,000 colt from Arcadia Angel bought by T Nakagoshi / Satomi Oka Bloodstock.

Home Affairs covered 225 mares last year in his third season to be Australia’s busiest sire there are a great many breeders invested in his success.