After a winning debut back in February last year, the Deep Field colt Bases Loaded has rung up placings in the Group 1 ATC Champagne Stakes, Group II Skyline Stakes, and Group II Pago Pago Stakes, so few could decry his stakes breakthrough in Saturday’s Group III Sky Racing Gunsynd Classic at Eagle Farm.

The Great Southern Sale today produced the highest-priced weanling colt sold this year to cap off an Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series which has ended as the second best in history.