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Easter Pair Star In Preludes

6th Feb 2010

Easter Pair Star In Preludes

Inglis graduates are set to extend their recent Blue Diamond dominance, following the ultra impressive wins by Easter babies Psychologist and Beneteau in the Group 3 Preludes at Caulfield today.

Graduates from each of Inglis' major yearling sales - Easter, Premier and Classic - have won seven of the past 10 Blue Diamonds, with $190,000 Premier youngster Reward For Effort the most recent.

PSYCHOLOGIST ($120,000 2009 Easter II, 2f Choisir-Miss Conception) further highlighted the growing success story of the fledgling Easter Part II sale when scoring a dominant debut win in the G3 Fillies Prelude.

Prepared for sale by Bylong Park, the Tony Vasil trained filly was immediately promoted to the second line of betting for the February 20 Blue Diamond Stakes.

BENETEAU ($1million 2009 Easter, 2c Redoute’s Choice-Slice Of Paradise) then announced himself as the new Diamond favourite when coming from off the speed and unwinding a powerful finish in the G3 Colts & Geldings Prelude.

The Paul Messara trained colt was sold through the Arrowfield Stud draft and snapped up by Blue Sky Thoroughbreds. His pedigree oozes Blue Diamond, being by the 1999 winner Redoute's Choice from a full-sister to 2004 victor Alinghi and he is now one of the hottest stallion prospects in the country.

Catalogue Updates

Yarraman Park have an Exceed And Excel colt from Beneteau’s grand dam Oceanfast catalogued as Lot 78 at this year’s Easter sale.

Bellerive Stud will offer a full-sister to today’s G3 Rubiton Stakes winner Here De Angels as Lot 290 at Easter.

The Easter catalogue includes four relations to dominant G1 Orr Stakes winner Typhoon Tracy.
Lot 107 Encosta De Lago filly from Princess Stacey;
Lot 233 Redoute’s Choice filly from Urge to Merge;
Lot 400 Flying Spur filly from Element Of Danger;
and Lot 463 Rock Of Gibraltar colt from Hanover.

Runaway Doomben juvenile winner HEARTSAREFORLOVE ($130,000 2009 Premier, 2f Hussonet-Happy Heart) has a Bianconi half-sister as Lot 166 at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale.

Click Here to view the 2010 Inglis Premier Sale Catalogue to be held at Oaklands from March 1-4.

Click Here to view the 2010 Australian Easter Yearling Sale Catalogue to be held at Newmarket from April 6-8.