Click here for Sale Mail on the four big Randwick Group I events - $3million Doncaster Handicap (1600m), $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), Australian Derby (2400m) and Sires Produce Stakes (1400m).
Prices for a runner on this key carnival day range greatly with the Inglis Sires Produce Stakes featuring the Magic Millions sale-topper Chauffeur, the most expensive at $1.6 million.
Quality sprinters Malaguerra and Voodoo Lad set to contest the TJ Smith Stakes, are among least expensive runners, purchased for $32,000 and $36,000 from the Inglis VOBS Gold Sale and Scone Yearling Sale respectively.
New Zealand Derby and Rosehill Guineas winner Gingernuts seeks his third Group I prize in the Australian Derby and is a $42,500 NZB Ready to Run graduate.
Proven Group I winner Palentino was the sale-topper at the 2014 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale when snapped up for $85,000 and runs in the Doncaster Handicap.
The 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale gets underway next week and The
Championships features quite a list of contenders offered at the sale including:
Gunnison, Summer Passage, Trapeze Artist, Prized Icon, So Si Bon, Hardham, Chautauqua, Tivaci, Rock Magic, Russian
Revolution, Derryn, Sense of Occasion, etc.The Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott trained Snitzel colt Summer Passage is an interesting runner in the Group I ATC Inglis Sires Produce Stakes having been purchased at Inglis Easter from the Highgrove Stud draft for $800,000 last year before being sent to New Zealand.
Second on debut at Pukekohe on January 28, the Hong Kong owned colt has won his next two starts including the Group I Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie so returns to Australia in hot form and is the real dark horse of the race.
