The Inglis Great Southern Sale in Melbourne next month contains the largest selection of foals at any southern hemisphere auction in 2016.

The catalogue is now online for the Oaklands sale on June 19, 20, 21 and 22.

After a flood of entries, the sale was extended to a four-day format, including two full days of weanlings, 290 of which are entered in the Platinum Session and 105 in the General Session.

“The popularity of the Platinum Session has skyrocketed this year,” Inglis Victorian Manager Simon Vivian said.  “Vendors recognise the benefit in increasing buyer confidence by X-Raying their premium stock.”

Weanlings on offer are by a first-class collection of 109 stallions.  Buyers will have the opportunity to secure progeny from 18 individual first season sires Declaration Of War, Shamus Award, Zoustar, The Factor, Sizzling, Epaulette, Dundeel, Eurozone, Camelot, Albrecht, Unencumbered, War, Fiorente, Polanski, Kuroshio, Fighting Sun, Akeed Mofeed and Niconoise.

Proven sires represented in the weanling section include Snitzel, High Chaparral, More Than Ready, Not A Single Doubt, Medaglia d’Oro, Choisir, Manhattan Rain, joining young sires All Too Hard, Pierro, Foxwedge and Sepoy.

Following the weanling sections, over 250 broodmares from Victoria’s leading farms will be offered, 200 of which are due to foal this season.

Sires represented in-utero include Written Tycoon, I Am Invincible, Nicconi, Hinchinbrook, Foxwedge, Sizzling, Helmet, Reward For Effort, Epaulette, Zoffany, Deep Field, Dalakhani, War, Starspangledbanner, Artie Schiller, Wandjina, Moshe, Unencumbered, Turffontein, All American, Toronado, Toorak Toff, Skilled and Master Of Design.

Over 120 lots of racing stock will join stallions Purrealist (Lot 662) and Astronomer Royal (Lot 661) followed by stallion shares in Stratum and Duporth.

Supplementary entries will close on Friday 10 June.