Lot 96 is from 4-times Gr1 winner Preferment's family (pic: Mark Gatt)

With an outstanding statistic of 27% Gr1 winners to stakes winners from yearlings sold, South Australian farm Mill Park Stud is renowned as one of the leading thoroughbred nurseries in the country.

Heading to the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale with a small but select draft of five, the Meningie-based team are looking to continue with the farm’s impressive legacy.

First out of the blocks is a colt from the first crop of Darley’s Champion European 2YO Colt and Champion 3YO Miler in Ireland, Dawn Approach, a multiple Gr1-winning son of New Approach. Consigned as Lot 5, the bay or brown colt is out of the triple Listed-winning, Grp1 Goodwood Hcp placed Exceed And Excel mare Very Discreet. From the family of Champion 2YO Filly Be Discreet, the Gr1 Schweppes Oaks winner Maybe Discreet as well as the Gr2 winner Serenely Discreet and her Listed-winning dam I’m Discreet, Mill Park sold the Lonhro half-brother at the Easter sale twelve months prior, to Shadwell Australia, with the colt having since been exported to race in South Africa.

The very next lot set to go through the Newmarket sale ring, also from Mill Park is a bay filly by Newgate Farm’s promising young sire Foxwedge (Lot 6). A half-sister to the Listed Heritage Stakes winner Guard Of Honour, the pedigree oozes class; containing Listed-winning sprinters Reldas and Victory Chant as well as the Gr1 Thousand Guineas Serious Speed and the Gr2 Edward Manifold success story Majestic Music, all products of Mill Park’s famed undulating limestone laden paddocks.

Another pair of back to back yearlings to head through the ring sees Lot 96, a colt by leading sire Snitzel, followed up by a colt by Golden Slipper winner Sebring as Lot 97. The fourth foal of the Gr2 winner Dances On Waves, the Snitzel colt is a three-quarter-brother to the promising Pipeline, from the family of Champion Stayer and four-time Gr1 winner Preferment, as well as the Gr3 winner Rezoned.

As the sire of Horse of the Year Dissident, Widden Stud’s Sebring is a consistent top-ten sire and his grey son out of the Gr3 Auraria Stakes winner Dane Belltar is sure to please all that inspect him. She is a half-sister to triple Gr1 winner Fawkner, the dual Gr2 winner Tanby and the stakes performed Viking Star; the colt’s Street Cry half-brother was also sold to Shadwell Stud at last year’s Easter sale, and is currently in the South African stable of leading trainer Mike de Kock, who recently achieved his 3000^th individual winner.

The final offering for the farm sells on the last day of the sale as the Medaglia d’Or colt out of the Listed-winning Monolith mare Starmon sells as Lot 371. From the extended Eight Carat family of Octagonal, Danewin, Diamond Lover, Commands, Kaapstad, Don Eduardo and many more outstanding Gr1 performers the colt is a half-brother to the promising New Approach filly Gogo Grace.