G2 Winner Moonlight Maid an Inglis Digital Sale Highlight

Media Release - Friday August 6

G2-winning, dual G1 placed mare Moonlight Maid headlines a typically strong Inglis Digital August (Early) Sale, which also features some intriguing lots from the continued dispersal of Shadwell’s Australian stock.

Moonlight Maid is a standout in the latest Inglis Digital Sale.

Moonlight Maid is a standout in the latest Inglis Digital Sale.

A top-class breeding prospect, Moonlight Maid (Puissance de Lune) was a winner on debut at Geelong as a 2YO, before claiming the G2 Edward Manifold Stakes at just her fourth start, defeating the likes of Miami Bound, Fascino and Subpoenaed.

Moonlight Maid was placed in both the G1 VRC Oaks and G2 Moonee Valley Vase and was also narrowly beaten in the G1 Australasian Oaks by Toffee Tongue.

The 5YO mare is out of Stakes-winning 2YO Manhattan Maid by Choisir and has a breeding certificate, comprehensive parade footage and racing highlights available on her listing.

To view the promotional video, CLICK HERE.

To view her parade video, CLICK HERE.

The August Early catalogue features 113 racehorses (60 race fillies), 56 broodmares, 13 yearlings and 9 shares.

Some of the highlights include:

• Attention Run – multiple G3-placed German-bred mare offered as a breeding proposition

• Beppe – 4YO Snitzel entire who won a trial at Wyong this week

• Devils Triangle – winning More Than Ready mare out of Stakes-placed mare Define, whose Zoustar half sister sold for $340,000 at Inglis Easter this year

• Ghazaaly – offered as part of the Shadwell dispersal, this unraced 3YO filly by Hinchinbrook is out of high-class Lonhro mare Wawail

• I Am Verve – 4YO I Am Invincible mare out of Pure Energy, lightly raced with a win at Bendigo from 6 starts

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• Robe de Fete – 6YO Choisir gelding that’s a 5x winner including at Metro level in Melbourne

• Saadara – lightly raced 3YO Snitzel filly, who is half sister to Champion 2YO South African filly Mahbooba

• So Si Bon 5% Share – Multiple Group winner and placed in the top four at G1 level on 7 occasions, his most recent win was in the Vobis Gold Mile at Caulfield in April

• Sulwaan – Another offered as part of the Shadwell dispersal, this I Am Invincible half sister to Wawail is offered as a racing and breeding proposition

• Tastebud – Metro winning 4YO Hinchinbrook mare who cost $320,000 as a yearling and has an Extreme Choice yearling half brother to be sold in 2022

• The Closer – G2-performed daughter of Dundeel and granddaughter of Magical Miss, a city winner of almost $240,000 in prizemoney

• Tinszelda – 3x 2YO winner by Snitzel out of Champion Canadian G1-winnnig filly Kirby’s Song, in foal to Capitalist with the resulting foal bred on the same cross as Inglis Millennium winner Profiteer

• Waltz – pre-Christmas winning 2YO Hinchinbrook filly out of a Stakes-winning mare

Vendors include Aquis Farm, Belmont Bloodstock, Blue Gum Farm, Busuttin Racing, Ciaron Maher Racing, Coolmore Stud, Corumbene Stud, Edmonts Racing, First Light Racing, Freedman Training, Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing, Glen Eden Stud, KBL Thoroughbreds, Lindsay Park Racing, M.G. Price Racing and Breeding, Makybe, Mark Newnham Racing, Parnham Racing, Prime Thoroughbreds, Sledmere Stud, Snowden Racing and Yulong Investments.

The Inglis Digital August (Early) Online Auction runs from today until Wednesday, with the final countdown of bidding kicking in from midday Wednesday, August 11.

More than half the 197-strong catalogue are offered unreserved.

To view the catalogue or to participate in the auction, CLICK HERE.

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