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Group Two winning mare Moonlight Maid headlines August (Early) Sale
Group Two winner and Group One placed Moonlight Maid (Puissance De Lune) headlines the Inglis Digital August (early) Sale which also features lots from the continued dispersal of Shadwell's Australian stock.
Moonlight Maid is presented having won twice and placing in another four of his 15 career starts that included victories in the 2019 Edward Manifold Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) and was runner-up in last year's Australasian Oaks (Gr 1, 2000m).
Trained by Mitchell Freedman, the five-year-old is out of stakes winning juvenile Manhattan Maid (Choisir) and has a breeding certificate, comprehensive parade footage and racing highlights on her listing.
The 197 lot catalogue comprises 113 racehorses (60 race fillies), 56 broodmares, 13 yearlings and nine shares and more than half the lots are offered unreserved.
Some of the highlights include:
• Attention Run – multiple Group Three-placed German-bred mare offered as a breeding proposition
• Beppe – four-year-old 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 three-year-old filly by Hinchinbrook is out of high-class Lonhro mare Wawail
• I Am Verve – four-year-old I Am Invincible mare out of Pure Energy, lightly raced with a win at Bendigo from six starts
• Robe de Fete – six-year-old Choisir gelding that's a five-time winner including at metro level in Melbourne
• Saadara – lightly raced three-year-old Snitzel filly, who is half sister to champion two-year-old South African filly Mahbooba
• So Si Bon five per cent Share – Multiple Group winner and placed in the top four at Group One level on seven 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 four-year-old Hinchinbrook mare who cost $320,000 as a yearling and has an Extreme Choice yearling half brother to be sold in 2022
• The Closer – Group Two-performed daughter of Dundeel and granddaughter of Magical Miss, a city winner of almost $240,000 in prize money
• Tinszelda – Three-time juvenile 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 two-year-old 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, Edmonds Racing, First Light Racing, Freedman Training, Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing, Glen Eden Stud, KBL Thoroughbreds, Lindsay Park Racing, M G Price Racing & Breeding, Makybe, Mark Newnham Racing, Parnham Racing, Prime Thoroughbreds, Sledmere Stud, Snowden Racing and Yulong Investments.
The sale runs from Friday until Wednesday, with the final countdown of bidding beginning midday on Wednesday, August 11.
