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The first major casualty from next month's Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has occurred with Press Statement's half-sister by the deceased sire Street Cry withdrawn because her owner Tony Muollo claimed she was "just too valuable to sell".
The filly, from the nine-time winner Kaaptive Empress, was part of Brian Nutt's Attunga Stud draft and although disappointed with her withdrawal he could fully understand Muollo wanting to retain the filly.
"I believe the Street Cry filly would have given Attunga our first million-dollar yearling. But Tony, who recently sold a big share of Press Statement to Vinery Stud, the China Horse Club and Raffles Racing as a future stallion, is looking at the long term rather than the short term," Nutt said. 
Kaaptive Empress has a full sister on the ground to Press Statement (by Hinchinbrook) and the mare is back in foal to the same stallion.      
Press Statement's race record shows six wins, two seconds and a Golden Rose fifth from his nine starts and earnings of $1,690,275.
He has two group 1 wins in the Caulfield Guineas and Doomben Atkins Stakes and, of course, was a luckless second to Le Romain in last Saturday's group 1  Randwick Guineas.
Footnote: Street Cry sired his 100th stakes winner  with the win of the Tim Martin-trained Heaven's Above in the group 3 Aspiration Quality at Randwick last Saturday.
The large stallion has sired 802 winners from 10 crops racing and has the mantle of producing six worldwide champions including Zenyetta, Street Sense, Street Boss as well as the Australian superstars Winx, Shocking, Whobegotyou and Pride Of Dubai.
WYONG DEBUT
On the subject of valuable fillies, Wyong was the scene of the first public appearance by the sensationally bred Kris Lees-prepared youngster Look And Listen on Thursday.
The filly races in the ownership of the late Bob Oatley and her dam, Listen Here - a daughter of Elusive Quality - is one of the hottest broodmares in the country with  two debutant stallions in 2015, Shooting To Win and Deep Field both sired by Northern Meteor.
Look And Listen's sire is Hinchinbrook, who was the leading first season sire in the 2014-15 racing season. The filly wasn't knocked about in her Wyong trial and Lees will undoubtedly find another trial and then a nice race to continue the wonderful winning record established by Listen Here.
Deep Field was the mare's first foal and he won five of his eight races including the group 3 Linlithgow Stakes and the Listed Lightning Handicap and was snapped up by Newgate Farm to become a member of their 2015 stallion team.
Deep Field was an amazing success and had the distinction of being the busiest stallion of the season covering 257 mares which, at a service fee of $22,000, was worth $5.6 million.
Shooting To Win was purchased by Darley and he, too, was a great success covering 154 mares at a service fee of $38,500 netting a return of $5.9 million.
His popularity was hardly surprising looking at his race performances which include wins in the group 1 Caulfield Guineas and group 2 Stan Fox Stakes.
After Look And Listen's birth, Listen Here foaled another Hinchinbrook foal that unfortunately had to be destroyed soon after birth. She then missed to Snitzel but has a Zoustar filly on the ground and was served last year by Hinchinbrook.
TEOFILO PROGENY POPULAR
Teofilo, a son of the mighty Galileo, served four seasons at Darley's Victorian base from 2009 to 2011 and won't be returning because of his enormous value in the northern hemisphere. 
His best performer in Australia is Kermadec, but he has Happy Clapper and last Saturday's group 1 Australian Guineas winner Palentino making big noises in feature races with the first mentioned pair both heading for the $3m Doncaster Handicap on   April 2.
Just hours after Palentino's great win at Flemington, Teofilo had another group 1 performer at the Meydan track in Dubai where his son Special Flight led all the way for a 4 1/2 lengths win in the Al Maktoum Challenge which highlighted the great loss to southern hemisphere breeders who no longer can purchase the progeny of the unbeaten two-year-old who won all his five starts.
His last crop of yearlings went under the hammer earlier this year and naturally were in huge demand.
At the Magic Millions on the Gold Coast in   January he had two sell at the Session 1 sale for $210,000 to Guy Mulcaster who bought Kermadec as a yearling and Michael Freedman paid $70,000 for a colt, while a filly from Session 2 sold for just $25,000.
Then at the Karaka Premier Sale the lone colt offered fetched $340,000 to the Wexford Stables headed by Lance O'Sullivan, whose brother Paul will eventually train the colt in Hong Kong. The other colt sold in New Zealand was at the Select Sale with Trent Busuttin paying $130,000. 
Two colts sold at the Inglis Classic Sale for $80,000 and $24,000, with the costliest buy on behalf of an Inglis client based in New Zealand.
The Melbourne Premier Sales a fortnight ago saw just how popular the Teofilos were with six of his lots ??? all colts ??? selling for $1,105,000 (an average of $184,000) with Wexford Stables again spending most with its $340,000 buy, with South African buyers spending $175,000 and $160,000 for their yearlings while Victorian trainers Robbie Griffiths, Ciaron Maher and Henry Dwyer all signed  for yearlings.
Teofilo has just two lots in the Inglis Easter Sales and both are fillies from Danota (Lot 485) and So Much Joy (Lot 506).
O'SULLIVAN EDGES UP
Further on Paul O'Sullivan's current racing season in Hong Kong this year, the likeable Kiwi trainer has moved into second place behind John Size with 32 winners, 10 behind the Aussie who also has the most prize-earnings with $HK659,936,800.
However, it's the jockeys premiership that has attracted most attention with the "Magic Man" Joao Moreira registering the quickest century of winners at Sha Tin last Sunday with the victory on Little Dragon. Moreira reached his 100 winners in the 2015 season in mid-  April and looks certain to break his record of 145 wins. 
Moreira has had 382 rides this season and has recorded 56 seconds and 62 thirds with his prizemoney earnings more than  $100 million. Zac Purton is the closest rider behind Moreira with 43 wins and Brett Prebble third with 34 wins.
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