Stakes winner Sharkbite (Redoute’s Choice) has his first-crop yearlings selling in 2012 and he made a spalsh on Day 1 of the Melbourne Premier Sale when his filly from Miss Keaton sold for $75,000.

The half-sister to the New Zealand stakes winner Travino was purchased by the Flemington based training duo – Matthew Ellerton and Simon Zahra with the filly’s price represents a return of 15 times service, given that Sharkbite stood at a fee of $5,500 in 2011.

“Sharkbite is the best value son of Redoute’s Choice standing in Victoria and the results from the sale of his first yearlings bears testimony to that claim,” Eliza Park CEO Cameron Croucher points out. “After all, he was unbeaten at two himself and is a Melbourne stakes winning son of Danehill’s champion sire son, Redoute’s Choice.

Sharkbite - Miss Keaton

“As for the female line, it has to be one of the best families in the Europe, a real sires’ pedigree.

“Sharkbite has been hugely popular since arriving at Eliza Park, covering 100 plus books in the past two seasons and, as evidenced by the result Oaklands Junction yesterday, buyers clearly like the types he produces.

“The handful of weanlings on offer last year sold well and, in Sydney at the Classic Yearling Sale, another of the Sharkbites was knocked down for $60,000.

‚ÄúThe Sharkbite filly from Miss Keaton has been one of our most popular lots in terms of inspections at Oaklands Junction and I‚Äôm confident that the other Sharkbites in Melbourne will be very much in demand.”