He has big shoes to fill on the track, but Switzerland’s younger brother has already made a statement in the sales ring, emerging as one of the highlights of Day 2 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
The colt, by Snitzel out of American mare Ms Bad Behavior, fetched $2 million after spirited bidding before being secured by a partnership that includes Coolmore, who raced and now stand Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Switzerland.
That price tag was $500,000 more than Switzerland himself, who was purchased at the same sale three years earlier.
James Harron and TFI joined forces with Coolmore to secure the colt, who will head to Chris Waller, the trainer of Switzerland. Waller also prepares Ms Bad Behavior’s third Snitzel colt, the unraced two-year-old St Gotthard.
“Everyone came together and agreed on what a special horse he was,” Harron said.
“He’ll go to Chris Waller, who obviously has done wonders with Switzerland and I know they’ve got a great opinion of the full brother.
“The mare’s just doing a great job, she’s just not missing, so that makes it even more exciting.
“Aside from all that, on his own merits, he just to me was a standout type and now we’ve just got to keep dreaming that he can be the real one for us and hopefully lots of fun on the track.”
The $2 million colt is the third Snitzel progeny out of Ms Bad Behavior to sell for seven figures at Easter. Last year, St Gotthard fetched $2.7 million, while another sibling, Decorum, sold for $550,000 and has since won three of his five starts under trainer Michael Freedman.
Only one yearling topped the price of Switzerland’s brother on Day 2 – a colt by Too Darn Hot out of Enbihaar, a sibling to Too Darn Lizzie, which sold for $2.2 million to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down, alongside Johnny McKeever and the training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Another colt reached $2 million on the day, being the youngster out of American mare Giza Goddess, purchased by Matt Laurie and Yulong.
Extreme Choice provided the top lot of the entire sale, a $3 million colt out of Pretty Brazen bought by Tom Magnier on Day 1. The stallion also had a $1.8 million filly and two colts that sold for $1.6 million, contributing to a dominant sale performance.
The nine yearlings by Extreme Choice averaged $1,561,111, more than double the next best stallion, Too Darn Hot, who averaged $751,667.
Overall, the 2026 sale saw a slight dip in clearance rate, down to 75 percent from last year’s 88 percent, with gross sales easing from just over $151 million to approximately $145 million.
However, the average price rose to $464,473 from $447,832, while the median dipped slightly by $10,000 to $350,000.
