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According to reports from Windsor Park Stud, the Aypebe colt Turn Me Loose fetched the top price of US$500,000 at this week's Karaka Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs, selling to the bid of prominent Hong Kong trainer Casper Fownes.
Two Turn Me Loose geldings were purchased by well-known Hong Kong trainers Jimmy Ting and Ricky Yiu for a combined $250,000, and a third gelding, a colt, was purchased by Australian breeder John White bloodstock for $110,000. There was a total of $1,100,000 made from the sale of his four lots at an average price of $277,000. She's Licketysplit, Turn Me Loose's top-class 3YO daughter, has already had a successful start to the season, winning the Gr.2 Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington and placing third in the Gr.1 Guineas at Caulfield. Two of his Hong Kong runners, Eternal Bloom and Smiling Collector, have won.
In January of 2023, during the Karaka 2023 sale, numerous Lots sired by the top young stallion, Turn Me Loose, will be sold in Book 1 and Book 2.