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Testa Rossa Will Be Popular At Melbourne Sale

25th Feb 2015

Racing and Sports - Thursday, 26th February 2015

The Oaklands Junction sale ring has been a happy hunting ground for fans of Testa Rossa with a remarkable return on investment for buyers of his stock.

With the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale starting on Sunday, Testa Rossa's record at the sale ensures that he will again be a popular sire with trainers, owners and syndicators.

Testa Rossa’s G1 winning daughters Ortensia and Rostova were both sold at consecutive Premier sales.

Ortensia was knocked down for $50,000 in 2007 while Rostova changed hands for $80,000 the following year.

They are among 15 of Testa Rossa's current tally of 53 stakes winners that graduated from the Melbourne Premier Sale.

This year Testa Rossa is represented by 11 lots and has one that is tipped to be among the highlights of the sale.

Being offered by Fulmen Park as agent, the colt is out of the Peintre Celebre mare Famous Painter, who has thrown four winners including the Testa Rossa filly Sistine Angel and Excites' G3 winner Sistine Demon.

Testa Rossa was a six-times G1 winner from 1000m to a mile and has sired G1 winners from 1000m to 2500m. He boasts one of the highest winners-to-runners ratios in the country at 73.2 per cent.

Testa Ross sired his 53rd stakes winner when Heart Testa took out the G3 Southern Cross Stakes, formerly the Frederick Clissold Handicap, at Randwick on February 14.