Tutta La Vita to be offered at The Chairman’s Sale
Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) runner-up Tutta La Vita (The Autumn Sun) became the latest star name confirmed for The Chairman’s Sale after it was revealed she will be offered as part of the supplementary catalogue.
The Chris Waller-trained filly has proven to be one of the most consistent three-year-olds in a stellar crop this season, competing exclusively in Group races.
Of those, five have been at Group 1 level and have netted three placings, behind Tropical Squall (Prized Icon) and Kimochi (Brave Smash) in the Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) back in September, as well as a third in the Surround Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) last month before a close second to New Zealand’s star filly Orchestral (Savabeel) in the Vinery Stud Stakes three weeks ago.
The winner of more than $500,000 in prize-money in her 11 starts to date, Tutta La Vita is from one of the strongest families in the Australian Stud Book, being a half-sister to Robert Sangster Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Secret Agenda (Not A Single Doubt) as well as three other stakes-performed horses.
Tutta La Vita’s Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) three-quarter brother out of the unraced Negotiate (Red Ransom) realised $500,000 to the bid of Coolmore’s Tom Magnier at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale earlier this month.
She will be offered at The Chairman’s Sale in the Chris Waller Racing draft as a racing and breeding prospect, with Waller setting her for a two-race Queensland Winter Carnival campaign of The Roses (Gr 2, 2000m) and Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m) should the new owner wish.
“In a perfect world I wouldn’t be selling her, I love her and I truly believe she is a Group 1 winner in the making but when you race a lot of horses you need to trade some of the good ones sometimes to keep the business running the way you’d like and it’s just a timing thing that she will be offered for public auction,’’ part-owner Kevin Payne said.
“She’s perfectly sound, she has an enormous pedigree which I think she will only make even stronger over the next year or two or three and whoever buys her will have the opportunity to run her in a Group 1 within a month of owning her if they choose because that’s what Chris has her set for.
“She’s the perfect physical, she has the most magnificent action and such a beautiful temperament, her future really is fantastically bright.
“Her performance two starts back in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes was extraordinary, she was unlucky not to win and that was a race that was billed as a match race between Orchestral and Zardozi but she split them and almost spoiled the party.
“She’s a three-time Group 1 placegetter and is right up there with the best three-year-old fillies in the country.’’
Inglis’s senior bloodstock consultant Harry Bailey added: “Tutta La Vita being offered for public auction at The Chairman’s Sale is an incredible opportunity for buyers.
“She was a very good looking yearling that has developed into a beautiful race filly with a hugely appealing pedigree that has a lot happening in it.
“She has competed against and defeated many of the best three-year-old fillies in Australia and New Zealand and, noting that she is a November foal, there’s no doubt her best racing is still ahead of her.
“The racing opportunities for her as an older mare are abundant for people looking to invest in a top-end race filly with proper commercial appeal as a broodmare later on, candidates don’t come much better than her.”
Supplementary entries for The Chairman’s Sale, which takes place on May 9, close on Friday at 5pm.