Shout The Bar’s $3m colt bought by Gai Waterhouse in the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale

Determined not to miss out, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott went to $3 million to secure the first foal of their former Group 1-winning mare Shout The Bar at the 2025 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

The colt, by Home Affairs, was catalogued as Lot 158 and became the highest-priced yearling on Day 1, topping the $2.7 million paid earlier in the session for Switzerland’s full brother. Waterhouse and Bott teamed up with John Singleton to ensure they landed the standout colt.

“We’ve been beaten a couple of times (today), but there’s just one or two horses in the sale we’ve got the asterisk next to them where we’re not wanting to get beaten and this was certainly one of them,” Bott said.

“It helped having John here and Gai was obviously very keen on this horse as well and we took all her strength into this lot.”

The colt adds another headline to the sensational start for first-season sire Home Affairs, whose progeny are in high demand. Earlier this year, his filly out of Sunlight sold for a record $3.2 million.

Coolmore originally purchased Shout The Bar for $2.7 million after her top-level wins in the Empire Rose Stakes and Vinery Stud Stakes. Bott believes her son could make an early impact on the track.

“We want to see him featuring early in the two-year-old races, but he looks like he’s got plenty of scope and class to keep carrying it on throughout his career,” he said.

“Obviously he was a well-credentialled lot and was always going to be well sought-after and he was on our radar for a long time.”

Big prices continued to roll in during the final minutes of Day 1. A colt by Extreme Choice brought $1.7 million as Lot 155, while a Maurice filly out of Shoals reached $1.4 million in the very next lot.

Despite fewer lots on offer, Day 1 of the sale closed with $63,055,000 in turnover and a standout average of $488,798—well above the previous year’s average.