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The raffle that is thoroughbred breeding is illustrated by the history of the celebrated broodmare Easy Date, a daughter of Lunchtime who was culled at a Scone bloodstock sale for $5000.

Offered in foal to Lunchtime, the daughter of Grand Chaudiere was offered by her noted owners Bob Lapointe and the late Bob Logan after they were advised that she was not good enough for quality breeding.

Grand Chaudiere was a prolific Northern Dancer sire who stood in Queensland whiule Easy Date’s dam Scampering was a non winner by the little known Nasrullah sire Misty Day. As a result Easy Date was inbred 4x3 to Nasrullah and 4x4x5 to Nearco.

The Lunchtime foal Easy Date was carrying at the time of her sale at Scone was a colt who went on to graduate from the first Magic Millions yearling sale at the Gold Coast and became a star as the champion sprinter and sire Snippets.

Co-Champion Australasian 2YO and Champion Sprinter at three, Snippets was one of 16 foals produced by Easy Date resulting in 15 runners and 11 winners.

The others have included G2 winner and sire Quick Score; Melbourne stakes winner Asawir; and Singles Bar, a Melbourne winner and dam of leading sire Not A Single Doubt.

Others included Alharir, a stakes placed Melbourne winner and dam of three overseas stakes winners, and the Melbourne winner True Blonde, third dam of the triple G1 winner Forensics.

There are at least 20 stakes winners under Easy Date with the latest being Sense Of Occasion, the winner of the G2 Villiers Stakes at Randwick on December 17.

His seven wins also include the WJ McKell Cup and Premier’s Cup at Rosehill and seconds in the Brisbane Cup and Lord Mayor’s Cup.

Now six but raced only 29 times, the Kris Lees- trained Sense of Occasion is by Street Cry’s Kentucky Derby and Breeder’s Cup Juvenile winner Street Sense from Saywaan, a Zabeel mare whose four starts included a win at Ballarat.

Saywaan is a half-sister to Rewaaya, the Singspiel sprinter who earned six G1 cheques including a win in the MRC Invitation Stakes and placings in the Thousand Guineas, Toorak Handicap and William Reid Stakes.

Saywaan and Rewaaya are among seven winners from Nasmah, a mare by the imported Melbourne Cup winner At Talaq from Easy Date’s daughter Asawir (Last Tycoon).

Sense of Occasion, Saywaan, Rewaaya and Nasmah were all bred by Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Australia.

Sense of Occasion is among over 130 winners sired by Street Sense from five visits to Australia from 2008 to 2012.

His 11 stakes winners have included G1 winners Hallowed Crown and Politeness.

Hallowed Crown, a grandson of a Bletchingly half-sister to Zabeel, went to stud in 2015 and has covered more than 2015 mares in his first seasons in Australia and Ireland.

The 12-year-old Street Sense is one of six Kentucky Derby winners who have shuttled to Australia this century, sharing this distinction with Animal Kingdom, Big Brown, Fusaichi Pegasus, Real Quiet and Super Saver.

A newcomer to the list of winners under Easy Date was Lookin’ At You after the 4YO gelding won his maiden over 1350m at Wyong on December 22.

Part-owned by his breeder David Bentata of Scone, the Anthony Cummings trained Lookin’ At You is from the only Australian crop of foals by American champion Lookin At Lucky from Natural Is My Name, a Naturalism winner of five races in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

The dam of eight winners including Golden Slipper placed Zizou, Natural is My Name is by Naturalism from Singles Bar, a Rory’s Jester half-sister to Snippets.

A Sebring filly from Natural Is My Name will be offered at the 2017 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January.

Lookin’ At You was the first leg of a double for Lookin At Lucky at the Wyong meeting, his other winner the being Shalluck , a promising Gary Moore-trained gelding owned by by Queensland’s Aquis Farm.

Inbred 3x4 to Mr Prospector and 4x4 to Danzig, Shalluck is from a winning half-sister by Secret Savings to stakes winners Eagle Way (Queensland Derby), Assertive Eagle, Impressive Eagle and Soaressa.

Lookin at Lucky’s only Australian-bred crop has produced 28 winners from 46 foals to race. The son of Smart Strike ran 13 times in the US for nine wins including the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and a second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.