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Easter Sale – Group 1 siblings
A look at some of the siblings to star gallopers who will be offered at the Easter Sale
The Inglis Easter Yearling Sale is renowned for offering some of the best-bred yearlings in not only Australia, but the world, and this year is no different.
Twenty-four of those in the book for the sale that will be held on Sunday and Monday are out of mares who have already produced Group 1 winners and below is a look at some who will most likely be highly sought-after.
Lot 18 – I Am Invincible x Pinocchio filly
The Everest winner Classique Legend, technically, is not a Group 1 winner but he is one of Inglis's Classic Sale's star graduates and his half-sister is one of the early headline lots of this year's Easter offering.
About half-an-hour into the sale Vinery Stud will produce a filly by multiple champion sire I Am Invincible out of the 2020 The Everest winner's dam, who is a daughter of Encosta De Lago.
The filly is also a half-sister to former Hong Kong sprinter Aethero and is the first product of Pinocchio to be offered since the sister to this year's filly sold for $2m at Easter four years ago.
Lot 43 – Snitzel x Response filly
Arrowfield Stud has had great success selling yearlings by Snitzel out of the dual Group 1-winning Charge Forward mare Response out of the Easter Sale ring and will offer the first of only two siblings to Golden Slipper winners in the catalogue.
The filly is a sister to Estijaab, who won the 2018 Golden Slipper 12 months after being sold for $1.7m at Easter.
That's not the most that one of Response's yearlings has commanded at Easter with a colt by Snitzel selling for $2.25m in 2022, a year before another brother sold for $1.4m at the same sale.
Lot 244 – Ole Kirk x Calming Influence filly
Calming Influence has already had a significant impact on the Easter Sale ring, most notably in 2022 when her colt by I Am Invincible sold for $1 million.
That horse, who is now a gelding and in the care of Bjorn Baker, is known as Caballus and won the G1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington earlier this month.
Alma Vale Thoroughbreds' Ole Kirk filly is Calming Influence's eighth foal and the six she has had to the races are all winners.
Lot 383 – Snitzel x Laguna Azzurra filly
This Arrowfield youngster secured an important upgrade just a couple of weeks before the sale when her dam's only other foal by Snitzel snared a maiden Group 1 win.
Lazzura was already a high-achiever, a dual Group 2 winner and placed in a G2 Surround Stakes, but got the all-important Group 1 win when she won the Coolmore Classic earlier this month.
Her filly to be offered on Monday is Laguna Azzurra's only other foal by the late Snitzel.
She is one of two siblings to a Coolmore Classic winner to be offered on Day 2 with a brother to Lazzura's former Chris Waller-trained stablemate Zougotcha going through as Lot 308.
Lot 451 – Snitzel x Ms Bad Behavior colt
Switzerland is one of the Easter Sale's biggest success stories of recent years, going on to win a G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes after being sold for $1.5m in 2023, and late on Day 2 Arrowfield will offer his brother.
The year after Tom Magnier bought Switzerland, Ms Bad Behavior – a daughter of Blame – had one of his brothers, who is now known as Decorum, sell to TFI for $550,000 and last year Magnier went to $2.7m, the second highest-priced lot of the 2025 Easter Sale, for another of her colts by Snitzel, who has since been named St Gotthard and is in training with Chris Waller.
Lot 452 – Rebel Dane x Mull Over filly
The second of the siblings to Golden Slipper winners that will be offered is Goodwood Farm's sister to Fireburn, who is the first foal out of Mull Over by Rebel Dane since they united to produce the 2022 Golden Slipper winner.
Fireburn, who also won the ATC Sires' at Group 1 level, is one of only three to race from Mull Over, the others being G2 Brisbane Guineas winner Kintyre (Hallowed Crown) and Kilbrannan (Pierata), who has won two of his 10 starts.
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