Lot 26 is closely related to champion Lankan Rupee (pic: Mark Gatt)

11 Fillies and 10 colts form what is arguably Bhima’s most impressive Inglis Australian Easter yearling sale draft ahead of the historic final Easter sale at the Newmarket complex.

Bhima have experienced a stellar season through the deeds of their Inglis sale graduates; I Am Invincible filly I Am A Star created history to become the first three-year-old to claim the Gr1 Myer Stakes, Street Cry mare Heavens Above improved from a Gr1 placing earlier in the season to take out the Gr1 Coolmore Classic, while the consistent Gr2-winning, Gr1 placed Heatherly, a daughter of Champion Sire Lonhro has taken her earnings soaring past $500,000 after being purchased at Easter for just $90,000.

Kicking off early on day one with Lot 4, the Medaglia d’Oro colt is out of a half-sister to the dual juvenile stakes winner Gift Of Power from the family of Gr1 winners Diamond Lover, Octagonal, Danewin, Tristalove and Viscount, while Lot 26, a colt by I Am Invincible is out of a winning half-sister to Estelle Collection, the Gr3-winning dam of Champion Sprinter and five-time Gr1 winner Lankan Rupee.

Champions Sires play an integral part in Bhima’s draft with yearlings by Redoute’s Choice, More Than Ready, Fastnet Rock, Exceed And Excel and Lonhro.

Leading the way is an impressive colt by Lonhro out of the stakes-winning Exceed And Excel mare Armed For Action (Lot 42), while on the filly front Lot 119 is a More Than Ready half-sister to Wyong Magic Millions winner Assail, from the family of Master Of Design, Suntagonal and Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy.

Lot 94 is a Fastnet Rock filly out of the imported Hennessy mare Dance Mix, a three-parts sister to the dam of Krupt and Anevay as well as being a half-sister to Gr3 winner Musidora, the dam of Gr3 winner Sacred Eye. From the family of Champion sires Encosta de Lago and Flying Spur as well as Bhima’s Gr1-winning graduate I Am A Star, this filly is sure to have international appeal due to her residual value.

Lot 267 is another who will have extreme global appeal being an Exceed And Excel three-quarter-sister to Gr1 winner and now Japan-based mare King’s Rose, whose first foal is the Gr3 placed Deep Impact colt Satono Arthur.

Having sold Gr3-winning, Gr1 placed Scissor Kick at the Easter sale a few years prior, Bhima will offer a close relation to him, offering a Redoute’s Choice filly (Lot 284) out of a unraced half-sister to Scissor Kick’s dam from the famed international family of Champion broodmare Hasili.

The draft also has an exciting sense of international appeal with a colt by Dansili and a filly by Sea The Stars.

Lot 30 is a bay colt offered on account of Raffles Dancers by the globally acclaimed Dansili out of the Sir Percy mare Aliante from a pedigree that includes Gr1 winners Aussie Rules, Yesterday, Quarter Moon and Diamondsandrubies, while Lot 301 is a Sea The Stars filly out of the Gr3-winning More Than Ready mare Ready To Lift from an impressive black-type family.

The first season sire title at the Easter sale is always hotly contested and Bhima’s draft includes a Dundeel colt (Lot 75) out of the Listed-winning Causeway Queen, herself a half-sister to Gr3-winning juvenile Solar Charged as well as an impressive Zoustar colt out of the stakes placed More Than Ready mare Rose Darmore from the family of Gr1 winner Demerger (Lot 317).