Cressfield Inglis Easter – Pedigree for Performance

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Thursday April 3

Inglis Easter is a sale renowned for showcasing yearlings with an unrivalled depth of pedigree and the Cressfield draft is traditionally one of the highlight drafts of the sale and this year’s selection features nine youngsters and eight of them are out of stakes-winning mares!

Purchasing from Cressfield is often about making an investment for the future if you are in the market for a filly with residual value given the superb quality of their broodmare band.

Cressfield is about sourcing the best racemares and mating them thoughtfully to hopefully produce something special and they certainly hit the target with Stefi Magnetica, who runs in the Group I ATC Doncaster Mile on Saturday.

Stefi Magnetica was bred and sold by Cressfield - image Grant Courtney

By All Too Hard from Group I winner Mid Summer Music, Stefi Magnetica was an affordable $140,000 yearling purchase from Cressfield and has won over $3.3million in the Bjorn Baker stable achieving G1 success of her own last year when beating Bella Nipotina to win the Group I BRC Stradbroke Handicap.

She comes into the Doncaster third up from a spell off a late closing sixth in the Group I ATC George Ryder Stakes to Gringotts and has a good gate with Jason Collett to ride.

Click here to see the full draft from Cressfield which includes youngsters by champion sires I Am Invincible, Snitzel and Zoustar with highlights below:

Lot 30 Colt Zoustar x Listen Here, by Elusive Quality (USA)

Superb colt with undeniable stallion prospect appeal. He is from stakes-winning blue hen Listen Here, who has had eight foals to race and all are winners headed by Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas winner Shooting to Win (Northern Meteor), Group II winner Deep Field (Northern Meteor) and stakes-winner Zaniah (Zoustar).

Shooting to Win and Deep Field are both G1 producing sires and this colt is bred on the same cross with Zoustar the best son of Northern Meteor.

Lot 39 Filly Snitzel x Madam Legend, by I Am Invincible

First foal of a blueblood Group III winning daughter of champion sire I Am Invincible and comes from the Twyla branch of the Dancing Show (USA) family that has produced Group I winners Tom Kitten, Desert Lightning, Gathering and US trained In Italian. The Dancing Show family has produced two new Group I winners in recent weeks in ATC Golden Slipper winner Marhoona and MVRC Willian Reid Stakes winner Schwarz.

Madam Legend produced a Snitzel colt last spring and is now in foal to Anamoe, so the seeds are being sewn for this filly to become a collector’s item for the future.

Lot 45 Colt Zousain x Magic Amelia, Not a Single Doubt

Second foal of a placed daughter of Group II placed Aga Khan bred import Mandistana (FR), whose Group III winning dam Minatlya, is the grand-dam of classy 3YO filly Verona Rose, who won three in succession including the Group III Kembla Classic and was a late closing fourth in the Group I ATC Vinery Stud Stakes on Tuesday.

Lighter on pedigree, but not on quality of type, he is superbly developed with great depth across his hindquarters and chest. A colt that is ready to go.

Lot 108 Filly I Am Invincible x Pippie, by Written Tycoon

Second foal of dual Group I winning sprinter Pippie winner of the MVRC Moir Stakes and MRC Oakleigh Plate with $1.2million in prizemoney. Her first foal is unraced 2YO Snitzel filly Samudra, that made $775,000 at this sale last year when bought by David Ellis and is trained by Mark Walker.

As good looking a filly as you would expect from this cross. Immense shoulder and girth, very hard to fault.

Lot 130 Filly The Autumn Sun x Rosental (GB), by Pivotal

By outstanding sire of fillies in The Autumn Sun and is from French stakes-winner Rosental, a full sister to Group III winner Rosa Imperial and half-sister to Group III winner Off Trail. The family has it’s origins in Australia with third dam Aussie bred Group III winner Mannington, a daughter of Golden Slipper winner Bint Marscay.

A real classic style of filly, great mover, a filly the walking pundits will love.

Lot 382 Colt So You Think x Frankely Awesome, by Frankel

By top class sire So You Think, who that has left 11 Group I winners and eight of them have earned over $1million including $12million earning Everest winner Think About It and $8.4million earner Think It Over. Second foal of Group I placed stakes-winner Frankely Awesome, a daughter of US stakes-winner Street Secret tracing back to the family of Arc winning blue hen Urban Sea, the dam of champion racehorses and sires Galileo and Sea the Stars.

A colt with an excellent temperament, effortless ground covering movement and Derby dreams on his mind.

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