Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Darren Ebert is a licensed auctioneer. He is also a disqualified harness racing participant serving a 30 month disqualification for egregious animal welfare breaches which resulted in three horses being put down, one slowly starving to death, another hobbling around on three lets in extreme pain because Ebert refused the vet’s advice to send it […]
What you see above are the terms and conditions as they relate to passed in lots at the APG Yearling Sale. As you can see if a lot gets passed in and the vendor of the unsold yearling wants to sustain it (make it eligible) for the sales race series they have to pay 10% […]
Gilbert and my good self wandered over the road to the APG Yearling Sale up at Middle Swan today, keen to see who would be emptying their pockets chasing Harness’s “Clayton’s Pot of Gold”…you know the stakes boost you see when you don’t actually have a stakes boost? With “Diamonds and Pearls” playing over the […]
When you sell a yearling at auction you are obliged by the terms and conditions of sale, and many would say by law, to disclose any serious impediments that the youngster is afflicted with to all of its potential buyers. If, for example, if it only has 3 legs, or if it has 4 and […]
The Christchurch session of the 2026 National Standardbred Yearling Sale saw 187 yearlings on offer and a record-priced trotter make Australasian sales history. At the close of selling, 115 lots sold for a total of more than $6.4 million, resulting in an increased average of $55,826 (6%) and an increased median of $40,000 (25%). Leading buyer Stonewall […]
APG bounced back from a somewhat disappointing QLD yearling sale last week with a bang yesterday in Melbourne, with the average prices up around 30% to $23 847 , the upper end of the catalogue a lot stronger than at Ipswich, and clearance rates a lot better at 78.67%. The two top priced lots of […]
Hi Peter, To comment on why APG have spotters ferried to all their sales around the country, my theory is because they are part of the team. The secret is to keep it all in house and to understand the sting, not what is apparent but the old perception V’s reality trick. Auctions generally have […]
Hi Peter, To comment on why APG have spotters like Lance Holberton ferried to all APG sales is because he and others like him are part of the team, The secret is to keep it in house and to understand the sting, not what is apparent but the old perception V’s reality trick. Auctions have […]
The APG sale at Ipswich yesterday was a weird one. Only 19 lots of the 41 lots on offer sold, at an appalling clearance rate of just 46.34%. If Inglis or the Magic millions only sold those sort of numbers they would give up. NZ Standardbred would too. There were three reasons for the low […]
It appears that everyone’s favorite debt dodging multiple bankrupt and water thief in a drought Dean Baring (pictured) has run into yet another dry gully, and is being forced to liquidate the horse stock that he owns under his wife’s company name in order to stave off the hungry wolves from Magic Millions, stallion owners […]
