High Priced Premier Lots for Shalaa and Zoustar

The day’s second-top lot on Day 1 of the 2021 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale was lot 226, a Shalaa x Our Daisy colt from Yulong which sold to Matt Laurie and Justin Bahen for $700,000. Laurie described the colt as a “faultless specimen’’, saying, “I’ve got a handful of Shalaas at home that I’m excited to get to the track but this guy was just a very special colt,’’ the trainer said. “You don’t see them like him every day. I had a feeling he would bring the big bucks and I suppose I wasn’t wrong.” The day’s third-top lot and leading filly to date – a Zoustar x Humma Mumma filly offered by Flinders Park Stud as Lot 87 – sold to Redgum Racing’s John McArdle for $600,000. She’s the fifth foal of Humma Mumma that McArdle has purchased and trained, which includes Saturday’s Listed Flemington winner Tycoon Humma and half. “Yesterday’s result probably cost me a bit more money today but the prizemoney helped go towards this one too I suppose,’’ McArdle said.