Successful Inglis Easter for WS

A small but select draft from Waikato Stud attracted widespread attention during the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

The Matamata nursery offered a pair of fillies and a colt at Riverside Stables and they sold for A$980,000 with a top price of A$380,000.

Perth trainer Luke Fernie secured the leading light, Lot 323, to ward off several interested parties for the daughter of Champion Sire Savabeel.

She is out of the Iffraaj mare Style By Design, who was a precocious type and won two races and placed at Listed level in the Ryder Stakes and the O’Leary’s Fillies’ Stakes, a race won by her half-sister Riva Capri.

They are out of the High Chaparral mare Chaparella, successful in a brace of black-type events, and her son High Country finished runner-up in this season’s Listed Gingernuts Salver.

Cambridge trainer Roger James, under his Kingsclere Stables banner, went to A$300,000 for the other Savabeel filly, Lot 403.

Her dam is the O’Reilly mare Absolutely Me, who is from the stud’s prolific family, highlighted by the multiple Group 1-winning half-siblings Glamour Puss and Vision And Power.

On the opening day of the sale, Lot 71 was also popular colt and he was knocked down to the combination of John O’Shea Racing, James Bester Bloodstock and E Lucas for A$300,000.

The son of Super Seth is a half-brother to the G1 New Zealand Oaks winner and New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Amarelinha.

Their dam is the unraced O’Reilly mare Hopscotch who is a half-sister to the farm’s multiple Group 1 winner Metal Bender.

The pedigree page also features the G3 Up & Coming Stakes winner, G1 Golden Rose runner-up and sire North Pacific and the Group 3 winners Missybeel and Sweet Ride.