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Peters Investments-owned mares set to sell at Riverside in May 

Inglis has announced that the Peters Investment mares Graceful Girl (Nicconi) and Celebrity Miss (More Than Ready) will be offered at The Chairman's Sale in May. 

Graceful Girl won the 2021 Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) while Celebrity Miss is the dam of the 2021 Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) winner Celebrity Queen (Redoute's Choice). She was then offered at the Chariman's Sale that year and bought for $2.5 million by Tom Magnier. 

"We are reluctant sellers of mares, especially from our top families but it has to be done because we run a business,'' Bob Peters said.

"Graceful Girl will be a particularly difficult one to part with as we never really saw the best of her. She was a later foal and we took a patient approach with her, as we do with them all. She won her Group 1 coming from last to run away on the line in a fast time and was really starting to mature into herself.

"She went to Melbourne and things didn't work out but I think she was very, very good. Everything out of the dam is a winner and it's a very tough, fast, honest family.

"It is our policy not to serve mares that we are considering selling so as to keep the business viable. This enables purchasers to get a nice early start with a stallion of their choice.''