As one of only two Per Incanto yearlings in this year's Inglis Classic Sale catalogue, LA’s colt from the Darci Brahma mare Pure Lorde, put forward by Sledmere Stud, always promised to be very popular.
Bidding was intense on the attractive, medium-sized, athletic colt, with Merrick Staunton outlasting the opposition to secure the colt for Hong Kong for $270,000, nearly three times the sales average.
Coincidentally, on Wednesday, the day following the colt's sale, his half-sister by Time Test, Jade Dragon, having her second start, won impressively over 1150m at Te Aroha. The 3-year-old Time Test filly, a $60,000 purchase by Paul Moroney and Catheryne Bruggeman from LA’s 2023 Karaka Book 1 draft, is the mares first foal.
The Pure Lorde colt (pictured) was the farms only yearling at Classic this year, and interest now moves to the Inglis Premier Sale which gets underway in Melbourne on March 2, where Cambridge consignor Henley Park presents a well-made Per Incanto colt from the Toronado mare Tereras on behalf of LA.