Walnut Farm Purchases Headed to Panthalassa

Tahnee Tiara – the dam of recent Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Socks Nation – topped Wednesday’s Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale, selling for $545,000. Offered in foal to North Pacific by Milburn Creek - on behalf of her owner Ian Millard - Tahnee Tiara sold to Walnut Farm. In realising $545,000 she becomes the 70th lot this year to sell for $100,000 or more on Inglis Digital. Once Tahnee Tiara foals down her North Pacific youngster, she will be served by exciting new Yulong stallion Panthalassa (Lord Kanaloa), as will today’s third-top lot Miss Antaeus, who also sold to Walnut Farm for $150,000. Speaking on the Tahnee Tiara sale, Millard was delighted with the outcome. “To be honest I wasn’t looking to sell her but I was advised by [Inglis’ Senior Bloodstock Consultant] Harry [Bailey] and we decided to test the market and this result is very, very good,’’ Millard said. “It’s a wonderful family but I’ve got three half sisters to her so it’s not like I’m out of the family altogether.”