It is from one of the foundation families which Fred has retained and enjoyed much success with at his Lomar Park Stud at Werombi in the foothills of the Blue Mountains about and hours drive southwest of Sydney since he established it in the late1960s.The first sire used there, the imported Le Cordonnier, got in his first crop the Peisah bred and raced juvenile champion Sovereign Slipper, winner in Sydney of  the Sires' Produce Stakes, Silver Slipper Stakes and Breeders' Plate and third as a short priced favourite in the Golden Slipper.

  Le Cordonnier also had in his first crop La Femme, a modest winner of one race at two. She was produced by the imported Social Smile, a Lomar Park foundation mare who was unraced and of modest parentage. She has gone on to be ancestress of over 50 winners carrying the Lomar Park brands including Razor Sharp, Steel Blade, Mister Elegant, Elegancy, Super Elegant, Regal Chamber and her daughter Regal Cheer, a very promisng three-year-old filly who won at Randwick on February 4. Regal Cheer is by the current sire at Lomar Park, the Danehill Victoria Derby and Canterbury Guineas winner Arena.

  Also by a sire used at this stud, Archregent, Regal Chamber won the Group 2 Magic Night Stakes and carried the Peisah colours into third place in the 1996 Golden Slipper. She is a half-sister to the dam of this year's sale topper Queen's Suite, a minor Sydney winner by Golden Slipper winner Marauding.

  The brilliance imparted by Slipper winners has already proved a key to the early success in Australia of the progeny of Galileo, the oldest of which are two-year-olds.

  The Lomar Park yearling which topped this year's Classic sale at $200,000, is one of a record 14 which went to buyers at prices of  $100,000 or more at the 2006 sale. In comparison12 got into this bracket at this sale last year, one at which the highest price, $190,000, was for a filly by another shuttle sire, Langfuhr.

  It was offered by its breeders, the Ovenstones of the Little Wych, Bathurst, NSW, and is a half-sister to one of the best Nothin' Leica Dane performers, Ain't Seen Nothin, and also to a Choisir filly which they sold  to Anthony Cummings for $160,000 this year.

  The highest price for a colt at the 2006 sale was a $170,000 for son of another shuttle sire, Danehill Dancer, paid by Lee Freedman.The first foal of an unraced half-sister by Octagonal to Group 2 winning Flying Spur sprinter Jet Spur, it was bred by R. Kemister and sold through Craig Anderson's upmarket  Broadwater Farm, Segenhoe Valley, Scone.

  There was keen demand at the sale for first yearlings by Danehill Dancer's son Choisir, the Paul Perry of Newcastle trained sprinter who graduated from a Classic sale to become an international star. Besides the youngster from the Little Wych Stud which made $160,000, Choisir had colts sell at the sale for $135,000 and $120,000. Both were bred by Mrs S. Suduk of Queensland sold through Philippa Duncan Bloodstock.

  All told 100 lots were sold at the sale at prices of $50,000 or more and less than 20 were at $10,000 or less.The final statistics for the sale are 376 lots sold for a gross of $14,303,500, an average of $34,611 and a median of $30,000. In comparison the 2005 figures were 418 lots sold for $14,467,455, an average of $34,611 and median of $27,500.

  The clearance rate this year was 81 per cent, an increase of just over one per cent on 2005.