Trainer Paul Perry has emerged as the leading buyer at the Inglis Classic sale in Sydney, spending $680,000 on six yearlings.

Perry has an affinity with the summer sale having paid $55,000 for Choisir at the corresponding auction in 2001.

Choisir won Group One races in Australia and England and now stands at Coolmore Stud.

This year's three-day sale realised a record $19.15 million for 458 lots at an average of $41,813.

The sale topper was a $310,000 colt from the second crop of New Zealand based stallion Per Incanto out of Da Vinci Code.

James Harron Bloodstock bought the colt which will be trained by Peter and Paul Snowden.