The Newgate Consignment showcased a stellar group of mares at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale this year finishing as the leading vendor with 15 mares sold for $12.855 million.
The showstopper was top class I Am Invincible two year-old filly Chayan that sold for $5.6million to Tom Magnier.
The Annabel and Ron Archibald trained filly started favourite in the Golden Slipper following a scintillating win in the Group II ATC Reisling Stakes, so is a filly packed with potential, but nobody saw coming what ultimately unfolded.
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Queen of the year, CHAYAN (Lot 115) and final lot of the night sells to @CoolmoreAus for a record price of $5,600,000. The G2-winner was on offer from @NewgateFarm. pic.twitter.com/TNIlU7HO0N— Inglis (@inglis_sales) May 7, 2026
Consigned by Newgate on behalf of her owner Eric Koh, Chayan paraded like a true professional at Riverside Stable before a packed crowd as Coolmore and Yulong settled in for a bidding duel for the ages.
Tom Magnier was surrounded by team Coolmore while Yulong bid online through the ‘green screen’ as bidding escalated beyond $2million, then $3million and $4million before Tom Magnier finally won with a final bid of $5.6million making her the most expensive horse in training ever sold by Inglis.
Magnier confirmed Chayan would remain in the stables of her existing trainers Rob and Annabel Archibald.
“When there’s a filly as highly rated and highly thought of as she is, you expect to have all the top people on her and that’s clearly how things played out,’’ Magnier said.
“I’m delighted for Eric, he’s a really good guy and he’s done very well out of her. Yulong are always very strong and that was some duel.
“Rob and Annabel have been calling me all week about this filly and in fairness, they do a great job. Rob was our racing manager once upon a time so I said ‘we’ll give this filly back to you if we buy her’.
“Hopefully she’s lucky on the track and keeps going but at the end of her racing days, I think she’d suit a stallion like Super Seth but there’s a lot of racing upside there yet, it’s over to Rob and Annabel now.”
Newgate also offered the third highest priced mare with triple Group I winning Savabeel mare Provence sold for $1.8million to Yulong Investments.
Provence was an elite racemare that won over $1million and has a lovely pedigree to back that up.
She is a full sister to stakes-winner Damask Rose and her second and third dams, Te Akau Rose and Straussbridge, are both stakes-winners with Group I winning sire Brutal also on the page.
“It’s great to have a lovely Savabeel like her to join the broodmare band, so we’ll retire her and send her up to Segenhoe and get her ready for the breeding season,” said Sam Fairgray of Yulong.
“We haven’t decided on a sire for her just yet, but it will be either Devil Night or Private Harry.
“You don’t find many Savabeel mares that have won three Group 1 races, so to be able to add a mare like her to the broodmare band is fantastic.”
