Newgate Farm’s Australian Horse of the Year Dissident had seven weanlings offered at the Inglis Great Southern Sale and all were sold at average $100,714 putting him second on the overall leading sires by average at this sale with three or more sold behind only Written Tycoon.
The top seller for Dissident was a colt from stakes-placed Sun Valley that made $170,000 for Maluka Thoroughbreds when bought by David Lucas for Phoenix Thoroughbreds.
Not far behind was a colt from Maree Basse (IRE) that made $160,000 for Burnewang North when snapped up by renowned pinhookers Musk Creek Farm and a colt from In Masquerade that made $155,000 for Glastonbury Farm when bought by David Lucas for Phoenix Thoroughbreds.
“We like the stallion and he seems to stamp his stock pretty well and we think he is going to be one of the popular first season sires,” Scott Williamson of Musk Creek Farm told ANZ Bloodstock News.
“The plan is to reoffer him as a yearling and we think there is decent value in him. His stock have been well received and we don’t see that changing between now and the yearling sales.
“They seem to have good bone, with good physiques on them, well balanced and on the whole possess good temperaments. We noticed that with a lot of the ones we looked at and we also have a couple of them at the farm that we bred ourselves.
“We are very impressed with those ones and it is good to see that he has stamped them across the board.”
A five time Group I winning son of Sebring, Dissident has covered 410 mares in his first two seasons at Newgate and stands this spring at a fee of $33,000.
Dissident’s Newgate Farm barn mates Deep Field and Wandjina were also in demand at this sale.
Dee Field had four weanlings offered and all were sold with his best result a colt from Anamour that made $60,000, while Wandjina had eight offered and all were sold with his best result a colt from Carry On Beauty that made $67,500.