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Three Stunning Easter Fillies from Edinburgh Park

Tara Madgwick - Sunday April 1
For a vendor approaching a major yearling sale, winning form is the best form and Edinburgh Park have enjoyed recent feature race success with classy three year-old colt Assimilate and slick two year-old Zizzis, their trio of Inglis Easter fillies guaranteed to please.

$420,000 Inglis Easter Edinburgh Park bred and sold - Assimilate is a SW this seasonRespected breeder Ian Smith has established a winning formula at his thoroughbred nursery on the rich alluvial river flats of the Manning River just minutes from Wingham, on the NSW Mid North Coast.

The Edinburgh Park brand is renowned for success and what world champion sprinter Silent Witness started back in 2003 has now become a steady stream of stakes horses with the latest star performers being Assimilate, winner of the Listed Canberra Guineas and Zizzis, winner of the Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic.

A consistent program of improving and updating the Edinburgh Park broodmare band combined with astute matings utilizing the best stallion talent in the country has led to ongoing success.

Edinburgh Park have three entries for the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, all lovely fillies by proven Group I sires, no guesswork involved here!

Lot 59 Filly Sebring x Caiguna, by Dubai Destination (USA)



Full sister to very smart stakes-placed two year-old Serena Bay, who won three races at two and was third in the Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes. She is the fourth foal of a stakes-winning grand-daughter of tough Perth racemare All Washed Up, a winner of 11 races including the Listed WA St Leger.

Lot 60 Filly Choisir x Calcatta, by Tale of the Cat (USA)



Second foal of stakes-winning juvenile Calcatta, a daughter of stakes-winner Calchris, the dam of this season's very promising So You Think three year-old Calculated. From a daughter of top class shuttle Tale of the Cat, sire of the dam of 72 stakes-winners worldwide.

Lot 263 Filly Snitzel x Nothing But a Dream (USA), by First Defence



Three-quarter sister-in-blood to Group III placed Snitzel filly Miss Wonderland, whose dam Alice's Smart (USA) is a half-sister to the dam of this filly.

Second foal of a winning mare, whose next two dams are US stakes-winners , the family noted in Australia for producing Group III winner and star producer Mica's Pride, the dam of $7million earning multiple Group I winner Criterion and Group winners Varenna Miss and Comin' Through.

See the fillies at Barn D Stables 49 – 51.


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