Pepper Tree Farm were once again heavily involved in the action at this year's Australian Pacing Gold Yearlings Sales (APG) at the Inglis Sales Complex in Randwick on Saturday.
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The regular attendees not only sold the highest priced colt ($130,000) but purchased a filly they prepared for the sale for $130,000 which re-wrote the harness racing record books as the highest priced standardbred filly bought at an Australian public auction.
The Rock N Roll Heaven yearling out of Make Mine Cullen was locally bred by the Roger Bazley Syndicate before being prepared at Pepper Tree Farm.
It will now be shipped to New Zealand to be trained by one of Australasia's top trainers Mark Purdon, who trained a winning double worth a combined $240,000 in prizemoney at Menangle on Sunday.
After her racing career she will return to Cowra as a broodmare.
Pepper Tree Farm principal Rob Vandyke was extremely pleased with the buy saying he had to make the purchase.
"We prepared her for a client and she's such a nice filly, I had to keep her," Mr Vandyke said.
"It broke the record for the top priced Australian filly at a public auction which we actually set a year ago.
"I think we set it at $110,000 then, now we have purchased her for $130,000."
It's no doubt Vandyke wanted ownership of the filly with it's pedigree speaking for itself.
Make Mine Cullen was an outstanding race mare winning over $800,000 in prizemoney.
The yearling filly's sire, Rock N Roll Heaven, was the 2010 USA Horse of the Year and continues to produce yearlings that attract big dollars at (APG) sales.
Also consigned by Pepper Tree Farm was the top priced colt of the auction by Art Major out of Kept For Pleasure which fetched $130,000.
He was purchased by the Victorian based Jess Feiss stables.
Vandyke said he has had dealings with Jess and Bill Feiss in the past and was happy to see the bay yearling head to Victoria.
"They bought a colt from us last year which was by Rock N Roll Heaven out of Kept For Pleasure. They thought so much of it they wanted this one, which is the half sister of that now two-year-old colt," he said.
"Kept For Pleasure won multiple Group One races. She's a tremendous mare, now she's a great broodmare."
The Kept For Pleasure yearling colt will join Pepper Tree Farm's yearling filly in New Zealand to be trained by Mark Purdon.
