Max Skillecorn, 15, Bailieston, sold a weanling for $40,000 at the 2025 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. Video supplied by: Inglis
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00:00My name's Max Skillicorn and I'm here to pin hook my first horse at English Premier.
00:20I've always had a really strong passion with the breeding, racing and pin hooking horses.
00:27My dad's Kelly Skillicorn, he runs Gilgai Farm down in the Gambie.
00:32I've always got around with dad and he showed me horses at Gilgai and always tried to go
00:38to sales.
00:39I got 104 sheep, every year they get a cut of wool, I sell the wool to people I know
00:44and then put that money into my savings account and then put it towards a weanling every year.
00:49I come to the Great Southern Sale last year with Suman Hedge, walked around with him looking
00:54at weanlings with the objective that I was going to buy one hopefully.
00:59We get to the last barn of the day and I see the Graff Colt and I think we'll have a look
01:04at him when he comes through the ring and yeah, I managed to pick him up.
01:07Max Skillicorn boys, thank you Max.
01:10Welcome to the thoroughbred breeding and pin hooking game.
01:13Good luck with him.
01:14Oh, I'm very nervous but I said 5,000 then I'd be relieved that I know that it's okay.
01:2120,000, I might probably faint by that time and anything above 20,000, I'll be over the
01:29moon with that, over the moon, yes.
01:38You just tell me, Papa, and I'll grab everything.
01:40Just have a look for the stickers in there, will you?
01:43In here?
01:51Yes.
02:08How are you feeling?
02:08Oh, nervous.
02:09Are you?
02:10Very nervous, yes.
02:11You'll be all right.
02:15So what pair is that?
02:16I think it's 15.
02:1715, okay.
02:18Good luck.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Presented a lovely run of horses, have Gil Guy here and none so much as this.
02:24794, still a bit away for him, 15 or 20 and go.
02:27I've got five to start.
02:2910 better, 10 a bit, I'll be 15 better, 15 a bit, 15,000 a bit of an hour, gonna be 20
02:34there with Kate Lally.
02:35On the back wall, a 20 better, 20 a bit, 20 a bit of an hour, 20, 30 there, 30 a bit,
02:3930 a bit of an hour, 30 a bit of an hour, 30 a bit of an hour, 30,000 a bit of an hour,
02:42Josh Seaman holds that call, gonna be 30,000 now.
02:45Grand vendors, they seek to sell him to you.
02:48$30,000 in, 30 better now, 30, what do you reckon, Max?
02:51You got it up?
02:52At $30,000 in, that's doing a good job, lady, isn't he?
02:55$30,000 in, good job.
02:57Five, 40, 40, 40 a bit, 40 better now, 40.
03:03At $40,000 all done, I sell for $40,000.
03:10Congratulations, mate.
03:10Thank you, thank you, well done.
03:15Thank you, well done.
03:17It's unbelievable, the best experience of my life, to be honest with you.
03:23This is Max, he owned the horse.
03:25G'day, nice to meet you.
03:26John O'Connor.
03:26Thank you very much.
03:29Yeah, lovely, thank you.
03:31Never in my whole life did I ever think I was going to get this much,
03:34and it's what dreams are made of.
03:39Good boy.