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March 9, 2022

Champion 3YO Colt, Easter graduate and now sought-after young sire The Autumn Sun, stars in Arrowfield's Inglis Easter 2022 campaign, here with senior Arrowfield horseman Adam Shankley in a Bronwen Healy image from 2017.

There’s a whole gallery of reasons to find your next masterpiece among Arrowfield’s Inglis Easter 2022 draft.

Over the past 30 years, the majority – 55 per cent to be precise – of the Group 1 winners offered as yearlings by Arrowfield have gone through the Inglis Easter ring.

They include 11 Champions, 14 colts that became valuable stallion prospects and eight priceless fillies, among them three Golden Slipper winners: Forensics, Miss Finland & Estijaab.

Arrowfield’s success rate has grown steadily during those three decades, with eight Group 1 winners sold at Inglis Easter since 2015 headed by 5-time Group 1 winner, Champion 3YO Colt and now sought-after first-crop sire The Autumn Sun.

During that period Arrowfield, with less than 8 per cent of all offered lots, has supplied 12.4% of the Sale’s stakes-winning graduates and almost a quarter of Inglis Easter’s Group 1 winners.

In fact, one in every 8 of Arrowfield’s 2015-21 Inglis Easter yearlings has so far earned black type, and buyers triple their chances of purchasing a Group 1 winner by focussing on yearlings coming out of Arrowfield’s boxes.
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A Gallery of Arrowfield’s Easter Group 1 Graduates

Redoute's Choice x Azmiyna
Sold at Inglis Easter 2017 for $700,000

to Hermitage Thoroughbreds & Chris Waller Racing

Champion 3YO Colt, 2019
MRC Caulfield Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Randwick Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Rosehill Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Golden Rose S., Gr.1
BRC JJ Atkins S., Gr.1
ATC Hobartville S., Gr.2
Prizemoney: $3.4 million

Retired to stand at Arrowfield, 2019

Redoute's Choice x Azmiyna
Sold at Inglis Easter 2017 for $700,000
to Hermitage Thoroughbreds & Chris Waller Racing

Champion 3YO Colt, 2019
MRC Caulfield Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Randwick Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Rosehill Guineas, Gr.1
ATC Golden Rose S., Gr.1
BRC JJ Atkins S., Gr.1
ATC Hobartville S., Gr.2
Prizemoney: $3.4 million

Retired to stand at Arrowfield, 2019

The Autumn Sun

Not A Single Doubt x Star Pupil
Sold at Inglis Easter 2018 for $1.05 million to James Harron

HKJC Centenary Sprint Cup, Gr.1
GCTC Ken Russell Memorial Classic, Gr3
Prizemoney: A$3 million

Stronger

Dundeel x Salutations
Sold at Inglis Easter 2018 for $280,000 to Dean Hawthorne

MRC Caulfield Guineas, Gr.1
MRC Manfred S., Gr.3
MRC HDF McNeil S., Gr.3
2d MRC Futurity S., Gr.1
Prizemoney: $1.6 million

Retired to Waikato Stud, NZ in 2020

Super Seth

Snitzel x Response
Sold at Inglis Easter 2017 for $1.7 million to Emirates Park

Champion 2YO, 2018
ATC Golden Slipper S., Gr.1
ATC Reisling S., Gr.2 in race record time
2d ATC Silver Slipper S., Gr.2
Prizemoney: $2.5 million

Estijaab

Redoute's Choice x Lago Ovation
Sold at Inglis Easter 2018 for $280,000 to Paul Moroney Bloodstock

MRC C.F. Orr S., Gr.1
MRC Gothic S., L
Prizemoney: $554,000

Retired to stand at Yulong Stud, Victoria, 2020

Redoute's Choice x Lago Ovation
Sold at Inglis Easter 2018 for $280,000
to Paul Moroney Bloodstock

MRC C.F. Orr S., Gr.1
MRC Gothic S., L
Prizemoney: $554,000

Retired to stand at Yulong Stud, Victoria, 2020

Alabama Express

Redoute's Choice x National Colour
Sold at Inglis Easter 2014 for $800,000 to Shadwell Australasia

Turffontein Computaform Sprint, Gr.1
Turffontein Hawaii S., Gr.2
Prizemoney: R1.1 million

Retired to stand at Highlands Farm Stud, 2017
Champion First Season Sire in South Africa, 2021

Redoute's Choice x National Colour
Sold at Inglis Easter 2014 for $800,000 to Shadwell Australasia

Turffontein Computaform Sprint, Gr.1
Turffontein Hawaii S., Gr.2
Prizemoney: R1.1 million

Retired to stand at Highlands Farm Stud, 2017
Champion First Season Sire in South Africa, 2021

Rafeef

Redoute's Choice x National Colour
Sold at Inglis Easter 2016 for $1.75 million to Shadwell Stud

Champion 2YO Colt in South Africa, 2017
Turffontein 2017 South African Nursery, Gr.1

Redoute's Choice x National Colour
Sold at Inglis Easter 2016 for $1.75 million to Shadwell Stud

Champion 2YO Colt in South Africa, 2017
Turffontein 2017 South African Nursery, Gr.1.

Redoute's Choice x National Colour
Sold at Inglis Easter 2016 for $1.75 million to Shadwell Stud

Champion 2YO Colt in South Africa, 2017
Turffontein 2017 South African Nursery, Gr.1

Mustaaqeem

Flying Spur x Prove It
Sold at Inglis Easter 2006 for $900,000 to Woodlands Stud

Champion 2YO Filly, 2007
STC Golden Slipper, Gr.1
STC Queen of the Turf S., Gr.1
VRC Myer Classic, Gr.1
STC Golden Rose S., Gr.2
AJC Light Fingers S., Gr.2
AJC Kindergarten S., Gr.3
Prizemoney: $3.5 million

Forensics

Redoute's Choice x Forest Pearl
Sold at Inglis Easter 2005 for $450,000 to Badgers Bloodstock

Champion Australian 2YO, 2006
Champion Australian 3YO Filly, 2007
STC Golden Slipper S., Gr.1
VRC Oaks, Gr.1
VRC Australian Guineas, Gr.1
MRC Thousand Guineas, Gr.1
STC Arrowfield Stud S., Gr.1
Prizemoney: $4.6 million

Dam of G1 winner STAY WITH ME

Miss Finland

Danehill x Rolls
Sold at Inglis Easter 1994 for $160,000 to Lee Freedman

STC Golden Slipper, Gr.1
VRC Australian Guineas,, Gr.1
AJC All Aged S., Gr.1
STC Peter Pan S., Gr.2
AJC Light Fingers S., Gr.2
VATC Blue Diamond Prelude, Gr.3
Prizemoney: $2.0 million

Stood first at Chatswood Stud, then at Arrowfield
where he lived until his death in 2018.
Champion Sire of Australia, 2007

Sire of 99 SW inc. 13 G1 winners

Danehill x Rolls
Sold at Inglis Easter 1994 for $160,000 to Lee Freedman

STC Golden Slipper, Gr.1
VRC Australian Guineas,, Gr.1
AJC All Aged S., Gr.1
STC Peter Pan S., Gr.2
AJC Light Fingers S., Gr.2
VATC Blue Diamond Prelude, Gr.3
Prizemoney: $2.0 million

Stood first at Chatswood Stud, then at Arrowfield
where he lived until his death in 2018.
Champion Sire of Australia, 2007
Sire of 99 SW inc. 13 G1 winners

Flying Spur

Those advantages are magnified by the premium genetics of the 64 Arrowfield yearlings catalogued for Inglis Easter 2022.

Their sires include six with two or more Australian crops of racing age. Collectively, they boast more than $480 million prizemoney, 50 Group 1 winners and an outstanding Stakeswinners/Runners strike rate of one in every 12.

Snitzel, already a record-breaking four-time Champion Sire, is compiling one of the best seasons of his career: 15 stakeswinners by the end of February, including three Group 1 winners from his 2018 crop (In The Congo, Wild Ruler and Arrowfield-bred filly Yearning).

The final yearlings by Not A Single Doubt are commanding the attention he deserves at the end of a remarkable career that began humbly and has notched up 16 Group 1 winners, including Arrowfield’s latest Inglis Easter star, so aptly named Stronger.

The five Group 1 winners, including Arrowfield-bred-&-sold young sires Castelvecchio & Super Seth, from Dundeel’s first two crops mark him as a Champion sire-in-the-making and his 2022 yearlings reflect that assessment.

Maurice and Shalaa are already among the best of a powerful new generation of Australian sires and Rulership is a top 10 sire in Japan, while the two fillies by I Am Invincible and the three-quarter siblings (both by Pariah) to Anders & Stronger are enticing opportunities for breeder-investors.

The dams of Arrowfield’s Easter yearlings are no less impressive, featuring 14 Group 1 winners & 11 other Group winners, plus the dams of six Group 1 winners and nine other stakes producers. Thirty-eight lots are the first, second or third living foals of their dams.

Arrowfield’s Bloodstock Manager Jon Freyer highlights eight yearlings from a collection of Inglis Easter masterpieces:

Lot 22 – Dundeel – Whispering Brook colt
“Dundeel is a proven premier stallion with colts Castelvecchio and Super Seth already at stud after multi-million dollar deals. This well-grown, athletic colt from the super sprinter Whispering Brook is so typical of his best offspring. He looks very sharp and may well be the next Dundeel colt to win a Group 1 before heading to stud.”

Lot 96 – Snitzel – Carry On Alice colt
“A readymade two-year-old type, he’s a very strong, great-doing colt with a tremendous hip, lovely depth and good swagger. I’m sure the colt syndicates that are looking for Slipper types will feel he ticks that box, and many others too. His dam was a Group 1 winner as a two-year-old and with this colt just her second foal, she shapes as one of our most important mares.”

Lot 273 – The Autumn Sun – Mantra Of Life colt
“We love the blend of international bloodlines with our great home-bred stallions, and here is an impressive colt out of a superbly bred Dubawi mare from the immediate family of Machiavellian. He is the right size and has scope and strength, plus that girth and shoulder we see so consistently with The Autumn Sun’s offspring. He might fly under the radar slightly, but he’s worth a long and sustained look.”

Lot 318 – The Autumn Sun – Negotiate filly
“A wonderful first-crop The Autumn Sun filly from a marvellous broodmare. We’ve been so impressed by the depth of The Autumn Sun’s progeny, and this filly is no exception, with a wonderful front and girth to her. She also resembles her illustrious three-quarter sister Secret Agenda and appeals as an early type for her sire.”

Lot 359 – Not A Single Doubt – Presque Isle filly
“A standout filly from the final crop of Not A Single Doubt. She’s beautifully made, attractive and athletic with a great walk and tremendous presence. This is a world-class family with a physical to match.”

Lot 391 – Not A Single Doubt – Run To The Beat colt
“Scat Daddy is one of the most important international stallion influences this century, and I love this smart Singles colt from a very well-bred Scat Daddy mare. He is right in the mould of the best Not A Single Doubt colts, strong and low to the ground with a great step to him.”

Lot 424 – Snitzel – Silent Sedition filly
“Another Snitzel from a Group 1 sprinting mare, this is an exceptional filly, very mature with a great girth, lovely shoulder and a quality head. She is a very good mover who is bound to catch the eye of trainers and breeders alike. An extraordinary dual-purpose investment here.”

Lot 448 – Dundeel – Stay With Me filly
“A gorgeous filly from a top-drawer mare. Her first two foals, both fillies, have displayed Group ability and no wonder: Stay With Me won the Thousand Guineas and is a daughter of the incomparable Miss Finland. It’s doubtful we have seen a better Dundeel filly and the opportunity to buy a filly from the best branch of this family is rare indeed.”

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