Shigeru Sendan was a $130,000 Inglis Premier Yearling – one of the top 5 prices realised for a filly from the first crop of her sire.

Recent Australian G1 winners produced from fast, Australian Stakes-winning mares include Exceedance, Nature Strip, Sunlight, Pierata etc.

A granddaughter of Lonhro who features in the female pedigrees of top-class recent performers like Osborne Bulls, Tenley, So Si Bon, Gatting, Nothingilikemore, Minhaaj etc.

Shigeru Sendan’s broodmare sire Encosta de Lago is responsible for mares that have produced over 100 SWs including 14 G1 winners.

Trapeze Artist, the highest-rated progeny of champion sire Snitzel, broke the 1200m track record set by Black Caviar when defeating 8 G1 winners in the G1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick as a 3YO.

“She is a very sexy sort of mare with a great shape to her. We bought her for the Merchant Navy pregnancy she was carrying and the resultant colt is overwhelmingly good, so we are delighted. She is Danehill-free, which opens up all sorts of options for matings and I would be surprised if she didn’t have a very good Trapeze Artist foal. When they are as good-looking as she is, you expect them to have good foals and she certainly hasn’t let us down. ” - Rae-Louise Kelly, Fernrigg Farm

1:20 am (Sat 9th)