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Siblings to four runners in Saturday’s Inglis Sires’ will be sold next week.
Everyone has their fingers crossed that Saturday's Randwick meeting goes ahead but some are more eager than others for it to proceed.
Breeders with yearlings in next week's Inglis Easter Sale would love to see the siblings get the chance to enhance the page, and value, of their prized yearlings a few days out from the sale that last year averaged $368,945.
The scratching of $1.15m yearling Millane, who has a half-brother by I Am Invincible to be sold on Day 1, leaves four runners in the $1 million Group 1 Inglis Sires' (1400m) with siblings up for grabs, including the top lot from last year offering.
Man In The Mirror (Not A Single Doubt x One More Honey): The $1.8 million buy at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale has an Emirates Park-prepared half-brother by Zoustar to go through as Lot 329 midway through Day 2. Man In The Mirror, a last-start runner-up in the G2 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes, is the first foal from a half-sister to last year's Kingsford-Smith Cup winner Vega One.
Magic (Snitzel x Rising Romance): Last year's Easter Sale top lot, at $2.5 million, Magic is a brother to last year's Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner Yearning, both being by Snitzel out of G1 Oaks winner and Caulfield Cup runner-up Rising Romance. Both are trained by Hawkes Racing, who produced Magic to finish an eye-catching second in the G2 Silver Slipper on debut before a third placing in the G3 Pago Pago Stakes. Like Magic, Lot 377 is a chestnut colt who is being offered for sale by Arrowfield Stud, which stands Snitzel.
Warby (Hellbent x Speedboat) Not only is Lot 440, who is from the Yarraman Park draft, a brother to Warby, who finished second in the G3 Black Opal Stakes on debut, he is a half-brother to last year's G1 Champagne Stakes winner and Caulfield Guineas runner-up Captivant. Speedboat is a daughter of Commands, a renowned sire of wet trackers, who is a daughter of prolific David Moodie-owned producer River Express. Warby cost $300,000 at last year's Magic Millions January Sale.
Showcourt (Snitzel x Miss Sharapova): Showcourt, a $550,000 buy at last year's Easter sale, is the fifth to race from Miss Sharapova, a half-sister to Villa Verde by Ustinov, and the other four have all won, including G2 Danehill Stakes winner Doubtland (Not A Single Doubt). Her Easter entry, who goes through as Lot 294, is a colt by Dundeel who has been prepared for sale by Arrowfield Stud.
The other Group 1 runner on Saturday with a sibling entered next week is Doncaster Mile fancy Converge (Frankel), who has a half-brother by Invader who will be offered by Evergreen Stud Farm on Day 1.
The Inglis Easter Yearling Sale starts at 10am Tuesday, with the first 244 lots to be sold on Day 1, with lots 245 to 487 to be sold on Wednesday.