Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot (Written Tycoon) will be offered via private sale on Friday, bringing to market one of the most sought-after profiles on the Australian bloodstock landscape. The Group 1-winning juvenile, from a rapidly developing family that boasts international appeal, has attracted strong interest from buyers across Europe, America, Japan, and Australia, according to Go Bloodstock's Steve O'Connor. The Irish native has been involved in the Lady Of Camelot story from the very outset and described the filly, who the ownership group has billed 'the best broodmare prospect ever offered for sale in the Southern Hemisphere', to have created quite a stir ahead of Friday's private sale.“She's a very rare offering,” O'Connor said. “The Golden Slipper is one of the biggest races down here, certainly one of the most commercial races. It's all about two-year-old speed and precocity, and it generally produces the best stallions in the world. So she's a winner of that contest, and very few fillies ever get sold who have won that race. That in itself is a rarity.“And she's very good-looking. She is the third consecutive group-winning two-year-old out of the dam, who has developed into quite a blue chip mare at a very young age. Both of her older siblings [Queen Of The Ball and Platinum Jubilee] were group-winning two-year-olds – they both ran in the Slipper – and are now breeding.”He added, “The female line is in its infancy and is developing into a really significant pedigree here in Australia, and that's backed up by the American influence too. The granddam [Bobby Flay's More Than Real] was a Breeders' Cup winner who was purchased in America [by James Bester for $675,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton November] and shipped down to Australia, and the Kentucky Oaks winner was on the same page. So she's a rarity as a Golden Slipper winner, from an emerging blue chip family, and she has international flavour as well. It's a rare kind of offering.”With a page that blends top-notch current form in Australia with back-class from America, it is little surprise that O'Connor reports strong interest from abroad. It begs the question, if buyers from all over the world are queuing up to launch bids to secure Lady Of Camelot, why are Go Bloodstock selling in the first place?O'Connor explained, “Sir Owen [Glenn, Go Bloodstock owner] is 86 and he'd be 90 by the time he'd see any of her progeny race. Given the exposure and the publicity involved that comes with selling a filly like Lady Of Camelot, and the brand appeal and brand awareness we've achieved through the process, it made a lot of sense. On top of that, we have some short-term goals that we would like to achieve, including having a runner in the Melbourne Cup, and this would allow us to reinvest and put some money towards those goals.”He added, “We own a lot of the female line and having a branch of the family overseas would be another great outcome for us as well because it gives the family an opportunity to breed to stallions we wouldn't necessarily breed to ourselves here in Australia. We've been delighted with the feedback on the marketing campaign and the positive response that has come from global buyers. From Europe, America, Japan and in Australia, there has been a lot of interest. It's going to be a fascinating process to see where she ends up and hopefully she gets the price she deserves.”As well as owning the dam, Miss Debutante (Fastnet Rock), Go Bloodstock also has Group-winning siblings Queen Of The Ball (I Am Invincible) and Platinum Jubilee (Zoustar) in their broodmare band.Steve O'Connor | Bronwen HealyO'Connor explained, “We bred this filly. We own the dam, who we purchased as a yearling, and raced. She was a stakes winner and this is her third foal. The first two foals are both sisters that won group races as two-year-olds, ran in the Golden Slipper, and are both now breeding. We own both of those as well. We also own two younger sisters. One is by I Am Invincible and is a newly turned three-year-old filly in training with Chris Waller – we think she's up to stakes class. There's also a Zoustar yearling filly who's excellent as well. There's lots developing in the family.”He added, “Miss Debutante is in foal to Extreme Choice. He's been the pre-eminent stallion down here for the last little while, and she's going to be bred back to him, as is the sister Queen Of The Ball, who has a yearling by Extreme Choice. I suppose an added appeal of this family is that it has been mated so highly. It's a family in demand.”In all likelihood, Friday's sale would not be taking place had Lady Of Camelot's career not been cut short in the most freakish of circumstances. When a tilt at Royal Ascot was very much under consideration, her training was derailed when she suffered a laceration when attacked by a stingray on Brisbane beach. That incident forced Lady Of Camelot to miss the Doomben 10,000 and, in turn, scuppered a potential assault on Royal Ascot. The timing of the injury, according to O'Connor, has played a big role in this unorthodox private sale. He said, “We swim horses quite often, so horses go to the beach daily. That's not the unusual part. The unusual part is that she walked on a stingray and it cut her leg. It was a minor injury, but once you miss a week or two of training at that level close to a race, you're done. She missed her prep, and her prep was all around going to Royal Ascot and exposing the family to a global audience. She's fine now. It was just a laceration and that healed quickly.”O'Connor concluded, “I think the marketing team, Kick Collective, have done a super job advertising the mare for Friday's private sale, so that's really pleasing. It's great to see the mare, the advertising, and the crown jewel of our operation being received so positively. It'll be sad to see her go, but it's great that she's been so well respected. The timing of the [stringray] incident dictated a bit in regards to how she was sold, but we thought a mare of her calibre deserved all the bells and whistles and to reach a global audience. We feel like we've achieved that, and now it's up to the market to decide where she lands. If she had gone to Royal Ascot, we may have considered a Tattersalls sale or something like that. But timing and circumstances left us with one of two options; online or by tender. We thought the mare of her calibre deserved to have a full weight behind it and to get as much global awareness as possible, because she's a global product. It's been well received and hopefully it'll be a good result on Friday.”The post Golden Slipper Heroine Who ‘Deserves All The Bells And Whistles’ To Sell Privately On Friday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.