Exceptional depth in March (Late) Online Sale

Media Release - Friday March 22

A recent Royal Ascot winner, a dual Group-producing mare, a stallion share in Better Than Ready and mares carrying pregnancies to the likes of Justify and Russian Revolution headline a stellar catalogue for the Inglis Digital March (Late) Online Sale.

Okita Soushi (Galileo) is a lightly raced stallion prospect with strong domestic and international form.

Okita Soushi (IRE) is a blue blood staying prospect.

The Joseph O’Brien trainee won at the prestigious Royal Ascot carnival in June last year under the guidance of world class jockey Ryan Moore, before finishing 3rd in the G3 Irish St Leger trial.

He then travelled to Australia and finished behind champion stayer Without A Fight in both the G1 Caulfield Cup and G1 Melbourne Cup.

The 6YO is again considered a Cups contender for 2024.

Rose Of Mulan (More Than Ready) is the dam of six-time Stakes winner and $1.1m earner Scallopini as well as G2 winner and $1.6m broodmare Shades of Rose (pictured).

She has an incredible 50% Stakes winners-to-runners strike rate with her progeny and is offered in foal to exciting stallion Hellbent.

The Better Than Ready stallion share will provide buyers a chance to secure a slice of the quality Queensland-based stallion, who has produced more Australian 2YO winners (64) since the start of the 2020/21 season than any other stallion.

Yearlings by Better Than Ready – the sire of G1 winner Apache Chase - have sold up to $530,000 since 2023 while his progeny earnings are in excess of $40,000,000.

There are some extremely desirable pregnant mares in the catalogue.

The well-related Laugh A Little (Lonhro) – a half sister to two Stakes winners and whose yearlings have sold up to $310,000 – is offered in foal to freak stallion Justify while Libiamo (Written Tycoon) is a City-winning 2YO with a positive cover to Russian Revolution.

In total the Inglis Digital March (Late) Online Sale has 402 entries – 167 racehorses (60 race fillies), 162 broodmares, 44 yearlings, 30 racehorse shares, 8 weanlings and 1 stallion.

Other catalogue highlights include:

*Armed Forces – G2 placed I Am Invincible 3YO, most recently finished 0.8L 3rd at Randwick

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*Decorah – Multiple Group winner whose yearlings have sold up to $310,000, offered in foal to Artorius

*Diamil – Multiple Group winner, an ideal $3m Big Dance contender

*Dyslexic – Multiple Group placed mare, offered in foal to Hellbent

*Introducing – Stakes placed 3YO, a last start Randwick winner, finished 0.2L 2nd to multiple G2 winner Tiz Invincible last Spring

*Montoya’s Secret – G1-winning High Chaparral mare offered in foal to proven stallion Starspangledbanner

*Piccadillies – Half sister to champion sire Fastnet Rock, offered in foal to boom young stallion St Mark’s Basilica

*Sacred Eye – Group-winning High Chaparral mare, a half sister to G3 winner and G1 placed Tulip, offered in foal to Starspangledbanner

*Stroak – G2 placed 2YO and dam of G3 placed Shihonka, offered with a Wild Ruler filly foal at foot

*The Mission – G1-winning stallion, sire of Group winner Yellow Brick, stood for $8800 in 2023

There are also mares in foal on covers to stallions including Alabama Express, All Too Hard, Anders, Best of Bordeaux, Exceedance, Harry Angel, Hitotsu, Home Affairs, Jacquinot, Pinatubo, State Of Rest, Tassort, The Autumn Sun, Too Darn Hot, Trapeze Artist, Written By etc.

The leading vendor by entries is Widden (13) while other strong supporters include industry leaders such as Vinery (8), Bhima (7), Newgate (7), Alma Vale/Kitchwin (6), Tyreel (6), Woodside Park (6), Lindsay Park (6), Yarraman Park (5), Ciaron Maher (5) etc.

The final countdown of bidding for the March (Late) Online Sale begins 10am Wednesday.

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

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