All Too Hard Mare Sets Great Southern Record

A record individual broodmare price – to complement Sunday’s record individual weanling price - has seen the 2021 Great Southern Sale end as “the best ever’’. Group-placed All Too Hard mare Too Good Too Hard, offered by Mill Park Stud, sold yesterday to Suman Hedge Bloodstock for $560,000, topping off a bullish two days of trade at Oaklands. Chris Watson’s Mill Park Stud said: “We knew she was a lovely mare coming here and had great credentials to sell well but that was well beyond expectations. “It’s an absolute thrill to get a result like this. Inglis have done an enormous job and have bought some great buyers here to this sale and we’re extremely pleased and thrilled.’’ Meanwhile, a half-sister to track phenomenon Incentivise (Shamus Award) – sold to Merricks Station and Group 1 Bloodstock for $200,000. The strong individual sales saw the broodmares section end with an average of $49,169, a remarkable 93% jump from 2019.

Too Good Too Hard sold for a record price (pic: inglis.com.au)