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Champion mare Sunline may have retired, but the progeny of Desert Sun continue to grab headlines. Four-year-old Desert Sun mare Egyptian Raine defeated a high class field in winning New Zealand's Gr1 Railway Stakes in Auckland over the New Year holidays. Egyptian Raine became Desert Sun's 3rd Gr1 winner & one of 14 individual stakes winners. Earlier on the same program Desert Sun gelding Desert Sheikh took out the Jacobsen Quality (1600m) - highlighting the continued success Desert Sun is having as a sire
of colts. Desert Sun is now the sire of 144 individual winners (78 colts/geldings & 66 fillies) at a winners-to-runners 58%.

With the first of the big yearling sales commencing on the Gold Coast, Eliza Park marketing manager John Miller noted the stud is offering a quality Desert Sun filly out of outstanding race-mare Scandinavia. Desert Sun colts & fillies will also be offered at the Melbourne Premier Sale & Adelaide Magic Millions Sale.

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