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Siblings to All Too Hard & Hallowell Belle set for Easter

31st Mar 2012

All Too Hard and Hallowell Belle directed more attention on their younger siblings entered for next month’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale with quality stakes wins at Rosehill on Saturday.

Easter Yearling Sale topper ALL TOO HARD ($1,025,000 2011 Easter, 2c Casino Prince-Helsinge) made it back-to-back Group Two juvenile victories with consummate ease at Rosehill today, adding the ATC Pago Pago Stakes to his last start VRC Sires Produce victory.

Jockey Dwayne Dunn settled the Patinack Farm owned galloper back in the field from the 1200m start, allowing the valuable colt to find his feet, before peeling out six wide into the Rosehill straight and sprinting past his rivals to a comfortable length win over fellow Easter graduate Narcissus.

Such was the ease of the Casino Prince colt’s win (pictured) he is now equal favourite for next Saturday’s $3.5million Group One ATC Golden Slipper Stakes, the world’s richest two-year-old race.

All Too Hard was purchased by his trainers, Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes on behalf of Nathan Tinkler, for $1,025,000 at last year’s Easter Sale, the top price recorded at the prestigious auction.

If the half-brother to Black Caviar can win the Golden Slipper his stud value will sky-rocket, as he joins the likes of Luskin Star, Marscay, Sir Dapper, Rory’s Jester, John’s Hope, Star Watch, Tierce, Flying Spur and Catbird as Easter colts to win the feature two-year-old dash.

Makybe as agent for Gilgai Farm will offer All Too Hard and Black Caviar’s yearling half-sister by Redoute’s Choice as Lot 200 at next month’s 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The star entry is due in the Newmarket ring around 11:15am on Wednesday April 11.

Very next race Hallowell Belle put the limelight on her yearling half-sister that will also be offered at Easter when scoring a strong victory in the Listed ATC Darby Munro Stakes for three-year-olds over 1200m.

HALLOWELL BELLE ($170,000 2010 Premier, 3f Starcraft-Bella Inez) had already recorded Group One placings in last year’s VRC Blue Diamond Stakes and ATC Flight Stakes, but today’s win was her first at stakes level, a valuable addition for owners Mt Hallowell Stud Syndicate (Mgr: C G Thompson) & D K M Walpole.

The Gai Waterhouse trained filly was purchased by Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds from the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds at the 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale for $170,000.

Widden Stud, as agent for Hallowell Belle’s breeder Saconi Thoroughbreds, will offer the yearling half-sister to today’s Darby Munro Stakes winner as Lot 66 at next month’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

This year’s Easter catalogue features 140 siblings to stakes winners (up from 130 lots in 2011), with hard-copy catalogues able to be requested from Inglis’ Sydney office on +61 2 9399 7999 or via email to catalogue@inglis.com.au

The Easter catalogue can be viewed online at www.inglis.com.au or can be downloaded on the iPad through the Equineline Sales Catalog App HERE