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The Gr1 Tatt’s Tiara during next year’s Brisbane Winter Carnival is the long-term goal for Wednesday’s Inglis Digital September (Late) sale-topper Boogie Dancer (Sooboog-Search For Fame, by Quest For Fame), who sold for “an incredible’’ $560,000.
Gilgai Farm’s Kelly Skillecorn purchased the Group 2 winner – who was offered by Wylie Dalziel’s Dalziel Bloodstock – for Bi-Lo Bloodstock.
Skillecorn confirmed Boogie Dancer will have the primary goal of securing more Black Type on the track ahead of her breeding career in 2024.
“She’ll go to the paddock for six months now then be set for the Queensland carnival in May and June next year and all going right between now and then, that would culminate in the Tatt’s Tiara,’’ Skillecorn said.
“And then she’s off to Ole Kirk. Ultimately, we bought her for Ole Kirk, a Group 1 win between now and then would just be the perfect finale for her.’’
Skillecorn admitted he had mixed feelings about the purchase, describing Boogie Dancer as “an absolute beauty’’ but “bloody hard to buy’’.
Winner of the Gr2 Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield before finishing fourth in the Gr1 Thousand Guineas, Boogie Dancer is by promising young Snitzel sire-son Sooboog who is standing the 2023 breeding season for $5,500 at Queensland’s Clear Mountain Fairview.