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Updates for Scone and Great Southern Sales

5th May 2009

The upcoming Scone and Great Southern Sales both received important updates with weekend stakes results across Australia and in Hong Kong.

Two lots at The Great Southern Sale, to be held at Oaklands over four days from May 18-21, were highlighted with the return to winning form in Hong Kong of Encosta De Lago's Champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom.

A graduate of the Oaklands sale ring himself, when sold for $200,000 at the 2005 Melbourne Premier Sale, Sacred Kingdom took out the HK G2 HKJC Sprint Cup on Friday.

The Great Southern Bloodstock Sale features Sweet Octagonal (Lot 626), a half-sister to the former World Champion Sprinter.

In addition to being sold herself, Sweet Octagonal (Octagonal) has a bay filly by Delago Brom catalogued as Lot 302 in the Great Southern Weanling Sale.

Another notable Melbourne Premier graduate to enjoy stakes success on the weekend was the flying filly Black Caviar, who won in Listed company by six lengths at Caulfield. Her sire Bel Esprit is represented by 14 weanlings at the Great Southern Sale.

The HTBA Scone Yearling Sale will be held at White Park, Scone, next Thursday, May 14.

Lot 170 (Foreplay-Cotton Bay) is a three-quarter sister to Facile Tigre, who made it two wins from as many starts when proving too slick for a handy field in the Listed Ken Russell Classic.

The Bruce and Jason McLachlan trained Catbird gelding will now chase Group race glory.

The ill-fated Catbird, who later completed a two-state stakes double when Burgeis won at Morphettville, has nine yearlings from his final crop catalogued for next week's Scone sale.

The Scone sale was also in the news at Rosehill, where $30,000 2006 graduate Welkom Gold (Johannesburg-With Ease Louise) took his record to four wins in seven outings for earnings of $125,000 when scoring a strong first up win off a nine month break.