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Another star G1-winning mare confirmed for Chairman's Sale

2nd Apr 2023

G1 winner Inspirational Girl is the latest star supplementary entry confirmed for next month’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

One of the best fillies to have come out of Western Australia in the past decade, Inspirational Girl won 10 of her 22 starts for more than $1.5m in earnings.

She has a Timeform rating of 115, equal to the likes of other top-class fillies and mares including Icebath, Con Te Partiro and Nimalee and higher than Amelia’s Jewel, Madam Rouge, Bella Vella, Oohood, Prompt Response, Levante etc.

Inspirational Girl immediately announced herself as a star in the making, winning her first two starts in convincing fashion.

She would go on to win nine of her first 11 races – with two minor placings as well – including her crowning glory, the G1 Railway Stakes which she won convincingly by 1.8L.

Inspirational Girl was then tested in the Eastern states, wining the G2 Blamey Stakes at Flemington ahead of the likes of Zaaki and Mr Brightside and finished close behind the placings in the G1 Memsie Stakes and G1 CF Orr Stakes.

Throughout her stellar career Inspirational Girl has defeated the likes of G1 winners Zaaki, Mr Brightside, Duais, Profondo, Converge, Private Eye, Sierra Sue, Tofane, Icebath, Behemoth, Colette, Gailo Chop, Streets of Avalon, Callsign Mav, Lunar Fox etc.

Inspirational Girl is beautifully bred, a Danehill-free mare from a family synonymous with Stakes success domestically and abroad.

She will be offered in the Holbrook Thoroughbreds draft on behalf of her owners Bob and Sandra Peters of Peters Investments, just like their other mares in the catalogue Graceful Girl, Celebrity Miss and Pure Devotion.

Bred by Jamieson Park, Inspirational Girl joins a myriad of high-class fillies or mares off the track that will be offered at the Chairman’s Sale including the likes of Montefilia, Icebath, Nimalee, Graceful Girl, Swats That, Electric Girl, Elizabeel, Elusive Express, Pantonario, Jal Lei, Mileva, Get In The Spirit, La Rocque, Joviality, Easifar, Nicci’s Fling, Splendiferous, Tralee Rose, Amasenus, How’s The Serenity etc as well as fellow supplementary entry Scorched Earth.

Bob Peters described Inspirational Girl as “a magnificent mare’’.

“She was very good, as she showed the day she beat Zaaki and Mr Brightside at Flemington,’’ Peters said.

“She had no luck after that and was undoubtedly a better mare than her record says.

“It’s a total outcross pedigree and she’s inbred to Mill Reef, which is a special thing to find in a pedigree nowadays.’’

Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch added: “We are extremely grateful to Bob and Sandra Peters for their ongoing support of the Chairman’s Sale. To have the opportunity to offer this mare alongside Graceful Girl and Celebrity Miss etc for this year’s catalogue is a testament to the esteem in which the Chairman’s Sale is held.

“We will be accepting only a small number of supplementary entries for the catalogue so if you want to be involved as a seller in what is going to be a special evening, I recommend contacting a member of the Inglis team sooner rather than later.’’

Supplementary entries for the Chairman’s Sale will remain open until 5pm on Friday April 21.

To submit a supplementary entry, contact a member of the Inglis bloodstock team or CLICK HERE.

To view the Chairman’s Sale catalogue, CLICK HERE.

The auction will begin at 4.30pm on Thursday May 4.