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Four-time Group 1 winner to be offered at this year’s Chairman’s Sale

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.