Queen a Celebrity Chairman's Addition

Recent G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Celebrity Queen (Redoute's Choice) is among the latest headline entries confirmed for the Inglis Chairman's Sale. The outstanding 4YO mare scored a stunning dead-heat victory in last month's Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield, her seventh career win from just 14 race starts. Celebrity Queen is by champion stallion and leading broodmare sire Redoute's Choice out of the stakes-winning mare Celebrity Miss, herself out of dual Group 1 winner Miss Maragret. Celebrity Queen debuted with a victory in August 2019 and has missed a place only three times in her career, which has to date netted close to $1m in prizemoney. In five stakes runs – her past five career starts – she has recorded a Group 1 win, an unlucky Group 1 placing (second to Elite Street in last year's Winterbottom Stakes), a Group 3 win and a Group 3 placing, making her one of the best credentialed mares to have come out of the west in recent decades for racing powerhouse Bob and Sandra Peters. Celebrity Queen (pictured) is being targeted toward the Gr1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick on Day 1 of The Championships on April 3, a little over a month before the Chairman's Sale. Celebrity Queens' breeder and owner Bob Peters admitted that it was with great reluctance he is offering Celebrity Queen for sale. "I'd rather not be selling her and while I'm retaining the dam, Celebrity Queen is going to be a great opportunity for someone,'' Peters said. "It's quite a young family and as a breeder it would excite me that her first four dams are by Redoute's Choice, More Than Ready, Marscay and Sir Tristram."