Thursday, 2 March 2023: Four-time Group 1 winner to be offered at this year’s Chairman’s Sale

MONTEFILIA winning the Ranvet Stks

Montefilia  has been added to what is shaping as a star-studded Inglis Chairman's Sale with the four-time Group 1 winner now the most prolific elite-level performer to be offered at the May 4 sale.

Inglis announced on Thursday that the daughter of Kermadec would be offered alongside the likes of last year's Empire Rose Stakes winner Icebath , Queen Of The Turf winner Nimalee , Winterbottom Stakes heroine Graceful Girl , three times Group 1 placed Swats That  and Group 1 producer Celebrity Miss.

Montefilia, who is now five years old, won the Flight Stakes (1600m) and Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) in the spring of her three year-old season, won The Metropolitan (2400m) 12 months later and last autumn downed champion mare Verry Elleegant  in the Ranvet Stakes (2000m).

"She is a fantastic race mare who has been beautifully managed by David Payne and his team,'' Inglis CEO Sebastian Hutch said.

"It's hugely exciting to consider what she might yet achieve as a racehorse but beyond that, she has outstanding credentials as a broodmare, with the second generation of her pedigree bringing together Galileo, Sunday Silence, Monsun and Last Tycoon.

"The term 'world-class' is one that we get to use infrequently, but I think Montefilia deserves to be categorised as a world-class racehorse and world-class breeding prospect.''

Montefilia, who resumed with an eye-catching fifth placing in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) fifth placing last Saturday, is being offered as a racing and breeding proposition.