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Easter Sale – Group 1 products
A look at some of the products from Group 1 winners who will be offered this weekend
The Inglis Easter Yearling Sale might have lost its highest-profile lot out of a Group 1 winner when the Snitzel colt out of Winx was withdrawn, but still no shortage of yearlings from elite performers to be offered.
Lot 1 – Home Affairs x O'Marilyn filly
Buyers don't have to wait long for the chance to get their hands of a youngster out of a Group 1 winner with the first lot of the sale a filly from Kiwi mare O'Marilyn.
A half-sister to Headturner and Anacheeva, the daughter of O'Reilly won the Sires' Produce Stakes in her homeland and was the joint top two-year-old filly in New Zealand in 2013/14. She has had five to race for four winners, including O'President, a son of Fastnet Rock who won a G2 Skyline Stakes.
Her Easter foal is a filly by the Golden Slipper-winning sire Home Affairs who will be offered by Coolmore.
Lot 15 – I Am Invincible x Personal filly
Also in the Coolmore draft is the second foal from VRC Oaks winner Personal, a filly by multiple Australian Champion Sire I Am Invincible.
She is a half-sister to the filly by So You Think who sold to Glentree Thoroughbreds and Badgers Bloodstock for $1.15m at this sale last year. That filly has been Chacha Saperavi and is in the care of Lindsay Park, the operation that trained Personal – who traces back to legendary broodmare Procrastinate – to not only win the Oaks but place in a Blue Diamond and Thousand Guineas at the highest level.
Lot 43 – Snitzel x Response filly
We gave this filly a mention in the preview of yearlings who are related to Group 1 winners, but she is also worth another mention here given Response's impact on the Easter Sale.
The filly will become the sixth youngster from the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes and Sangster Stakes winner by Snitzel that Arrowfield Stud has offered with three of the others having sold for seven figures.
The most expensive is the colt who sold for $2.25m in 2022, but undoubtedly the star has been her first foal by Snitzel, Estijaab, who sold for $1.7m the year before winning the Golden Slipper in 2018. Another Snitzel-Response colt sold for $1.4m in 2023.
This is Response's final foal by Snitzel, who died in June last year. She missed to the champion stallion in his final season at stud and last year visited The Autumn Sun.
Lot 89 – I Am Invincible x Shoals filly
Shoals is from a family renowned for attracting big sale-ring prices and the three-time Group 1 winner has already done her bit to add to that.
A daughter of $1.9m broodmare buy The Broken Shore, Shoals' first foal to be offered for sale was Chelsea, a son of Written Tycoon, sold for $1m at Easter in 2023, while her only other yearling to be offered is the unraced filly by Maurice who sold for $1.4m at Easter last year.
This filly is Shoals' first by I Am Invincible to be offered for sale with breeder Jonathan Munz retaining the first two; Group 3 winner Isthmus and unraced three-year-old filly Cape Cod.
Lot 128 – Justify x Sunlight filly
Coolmore's Tom Magnier paid a hefty sum for Sunlight – $4.2m at the 2020 National Broodmare Sale – but she has already recouped more than that through her progeny with the promise of much more to come this weekend.
The lot to be offered on Sunday is a half-sister to the filly by Home Affairs who topped last year's Magic Millions sale when sold for $3.2m and a full brother to the colt who races as Dawn Service after being sold for $1.4m on the Gold Coast in 2023.
Sunlight's only product to be sold at Easter was the colt by Wootton Basset, now known as Central Coast, who sold for $1.4m in 2024.
Lot 446 – Alabama Express x Monteflia colt
Yulong has a big draft of bluebloods scattered throughout the sale and one of its highest-profile lots is its second-last offering, the first foal from the four-time Group 1-winning daughter of Kermadec.
Yulong paid $3.4m for Montefilia at the Chairman's Sale in 2023 and put her to Treasurethe Moment's sire Alabama Express, who helped her produce a striking bay or brown colt.
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