The Mitchell family run Yarraman Park Stud was the toast of Easter last year after selling the three top priced yearlings of the sale with Redoute’s Choice colts from Deja Slew (USA) and Exact making $3 million and $2.3 million, with champion filly Alinghi’s full sister splitting the pair at $2.6 million.

Setting an Australian record price for a yearling sold at auction, the colt from Deja Slew (USA) was snapped up by South African trainer Charles Laird and immediately exported to South Africa.

“He’s been broken in and all the reports we’ve heard would indicate they are very happy with him and it’s still very early in the South African two year-old season, so you would not expect to see him racing just yet,” said Arthur Mitchell, who added the colt has been named No Doubt Deja.

Last year provided a fairytale result and 12 months down the track the team at Yarraman will head back to the 2007 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale with another quality draft featuring 18 yearlings by Anabaa (USA) (2), Dehere (USA), Encosta de Lago (4), Elusive Quality (USA), Exceed and Excel (2), Lonhro (3), Redoute’s Choice (3), Red Ransom (USA) and Tale of the Cat (USA).

The obvious standout is Lot 372, a spectacular bay filly by Encosta de Lago from Oceanfast, making her a full sister to last year’s record priced filly who is already stakes-placed from just three starts and runs under the name of Perfect Persuasion.

“This filly is an outstanding individual just like her sister last year, although she is a lighter type and nowhere near as heavily built,” said Mitchell.

“Lee Freedman likes Perfect Persuasion a great deal and has now sent her to the paddock for a good spell. When she finished third in the Listed Talindert Stakes she chased home Sleek Chassis and Rose Ceremony who will both line up in the Golden Slipper, so there is no doubt she has ability.”

For fans of Encosta de Lago fillies… and there are plenty out there….it’s impossible to go past Lot 147, a real eye-catcher from the stakes-placed mare Desert End (USA), whose only two foals to race are both winners in the US.

She comes from the family of champion American mare Desert Vixen and the pedigree has had some exposure in the Southern Hemisphere with the stakes-winner Royal Med (USA), a half-sister to Desert End (USA), at stud in New Zealand where she has left several winners including Group Two winner Millennium.

Redoute’s Choice is always a showstopper at this sale and his colts from All The Rave and Sakhalin (USA) are both powerful types with obvious appeal.

Offered as Lot 34, the colt from All The Rave will be the very first colt by Redoute’s Choice sold at Easter this year and should get his sire off to a great start.

He is the fifth foal of his dam, a brilliant stakes-winning sprinter who won the Listed STC Birthday Card Quality and finished second beaten less than a length in the Group Two STC Reisling Slipper Trial.

The strikingly marked bay colt from Sakhalin (USA) takes his turn on the last day of the sale as Lot 453. The third foal of a well-related daughter of renowned sire Kingmambo, he comes from an international Black Type family that has already tasted success in Australia through Group Three winner Red Trinket.

Anybody that has seen top class juvenile filly Camarilla will immediately note the resemblance between her and Lot 283, a glorious bay filly who is bred the exact same way being by Elusive Quality (USA) from a Danehill (USA) mare.

From grand producer Lady Danna, this filly is a half-sister to three winners highlighted by triple Group One winner Barely a Moment whose career earnings of $1.2 million featured wins in the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes, MRC Toorak Handicap and Dubai Racing Club Cup.

A powerhouse chestnut colt with a prominent white blaze, Lot 424 looks a natural runner and so he should be as a full brother to smart sprinter Oamaru Rhythm, a Listed winner of over $200,000 in prizemoney.

His dam Raise a Rhythm won the Group Two VRC Maribyrnong Plate and her dam Dark Rhythm was also a superior sprinter so there is every reason to think this fellow will run right up to his looks.

Click here for more information and Sirecam on Yarraman Park’s superb draft of 18 Easter Yearlings.