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This month’s Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale at Oaklands has been boosted by the supplementary entry of blue-blooded mare Danevade (Danehill -Subterfuge, by Machiavellian), a dual Group placed full relation to Shania Dane and Scintillation.

Danevade is the winner of three races, including her most recent outing at Caulfield in March. Her career also included a second in the G3 Matron Stakes and third in the G2 Hilton International Stakes last year.

Full sister Shania Dane was a four times Group winner and five times Group 1 placed, before retiring to stud, where she produced an Encosta De Lago colt last year, while Scintillation has been one of Hong Kong’s best racehorses in the past few seasons, winning 12 races – six at stakes level – and $A3.2million in prizemoney.

Danevade is being offered for sale by Riverend Park and D’Arcy Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd to dissolve a partnership.

“Mares of this calibre rarely come up for public auction and this represents an outstanding opportunity for buyers on the dawn of a new breeding season,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.

“Subterfuge has proven herself as one of Australia’s blue hen producers and it is quite clearly one of the hottest families in this part of the world right now.”

Recent sales results support that analysis, with Subterfuge’s past two yearlings selling for upwards of $1million at Easter and her daughter Sequin (by Lure) also producing a colt that made $1.1million at this year’s Easter Sale.

Danevade will be offered alongside the Rainbow Quest mare Wishing Star, Manistique (by Miswaki) and My Sparkling Star, the dam of dual Group 1 winner Sudurka.

Manistique, who produced a Rock Of Gibraltar colt last spring, is a half-sister to dual US Grade 1 winner Lazy Slusan.

The four supplementary mares will be sold on Thursday, August 14 immediately following the main Broodmare catalogue.

The Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale has been extended to two days and will conclude on Friday, August 15.

Inglis’ On-line bidding and Post Sale services will both be available to buyers during this sale.

The sale will also include a stallion parade of first season horses covering their debut book of mares in Victoria.
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