Group One-winning mare Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) set an Australasian online auction record on Monday night when she sold on gavelhouse.com to Yulong Investments for $622,500.
The daughter of Postponed raced across six seasons for 11 wins, six of those at stakes level, including the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) and Gr.2 Sunline Stakes (1600m).
The recently retired eight-year-old mare is in-foal to Haunui Farm’s Iffraaj, who added another Group One winner to his credentials on Saturday courtesy of Wyndspelle’s (NZ) Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) victory.
Consensus fetched considerably more than her $375,000 reserve and gavelhouse.com General Manager Haylie Martin was grateful for the opportunity to showcase the benefits of selling online.
“It’s a privilege to be given the opportunity to present horses of Consensus’ calibre to the market,” she said.
“There was plenty of interest in her from New Zealand and Australian clients right from the outset and this result demonstrates again that there really are no boundaries when it comes to presenting horses for sale online.”
Monday’s result surpasses gavelhouse.com’s previous top lot, Lubaya (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle), who fetched $255,000 in August, while Consensus’ dam Kate Cross (NZ) (Cape Cross) sold in-foal to Iffraaj in December 2017 for $85,000.
