There was no joy for breeders at the VOBIS Yearling Sale, held in Melbourne on Sunday, when 21 per cent of the draft failed to reach their reserve.

It was like drawing teeth from an uninterested audience, as auctioneers appeared dumfounded at the lack of response from bidders.

There were some nice horses to be offered, the lack of leading trainers didn’t help either, it was a lack lustre sale, quite disappointing.

Turnover amounted to $3.850 million, surprising the average was $19,265, however, it was the word VOBIS that really didn’t mean much when the chips were down, top priced lot was in the supplementary catalogue, Lot 248, the Spirit of Boom colt, from Moxie Doll, sold for $120,000.