EDITION 260 – 19/01/2020

Sebring / Brandish filly

Our first purchase for 2020

I couldn’t be happier with the way Magic Millions week went. It was a great success with us securing six nice yearlings for $760,000. The average price for the sale was $247,000 so we did a very good job picking up the yearlings we did.

The allocation is as follows:

Lot 148 Sebring / Brandish Patrick Payne Victoria

Lot 938 Winning Rupert / Mowgli Patrick Payne Victoria

Lot 980 Sizzling / Senro Kisaki Patrick Payne Victoria

Lot 419 Deep Field / Jerry’s Witness John Thompson NSW

Lot 628 Extreme Choice / Peace Time (USA) John Thompson NSW

Lot 644 Hinchinbrook / Positive Charge Kris Lees NSW

I have been thrilled with the response to these yearling purchases with Lots 419,628 and 980 appearing as though they are fully subscribed.

I have forwarded out the information packs to the owners requesting them. If you don’t receive yours by Wednesday and you asked for one please get back to me.

The new session we introduced to meet the trainers was a big success and we will have this segment again next year with a few adjustments.

Magic Millions did a great job putting the catalogue together and creating a very positive environment at the sales complex. This is now a major week and the biggest event on the Gold Coast Calendar.

The time I spent in the Hunter Valley in December with Bill and James Mitchell was invaluable. It was amazing to be able to compare just how the yearlings had gone ahead or backwards since that time.

The two biggest improvers of my purchasers were the Sebring and Hinchinbrook fillies. I love it when yearlings really go forward in the month to five weeks since I first inspected them. It is a very good sign.

Rubisaki winning at Flemington last week – she’s a very good filly!!!

6 starts – 4wins - $269,800 stakes earned!!!

$85,000 purchase

Yearlings

Hinchinbrook / Positive Charge filly 2018

Kris Lees to Train 5% $9,000 – 10% $18,000

Picture taken 18/01/20

When Hinchinbrook had to be put down after an accident it robbed the Australian breeding industry of one of its best young sires. He was a very good racehorse, had a great pedigree and was siring some terrific racehorses. We were reminded of just how good a sire he was when Beat The Clock won the Group 1 Centenary Cup in Hong Kong late last year.

Hinchinbrook only ever served average sized books of mares but has sired 247 winners with four Group 1 winners. I’m proud of the fact I purchased and syndicated Flying Jess who is Hinchinbrook’s highest earning filly with $1,421,680. Overall, she is his 3rd highest earner behind Beat The Clock and Press Statement.

Positive Charge is by Charge Forward, one of our very best young broodmare sires. He has moved from 164th position on the Broodmare Sires List 5 years ago to 22nd at present. He is represented by Sunlight, She Will Reign, Estijaab and Limestone. It should be noted these are all fillies.

Positive Charge was a good race filly winning twice and being placed in the Listed Denise’s Joy Stakes. Her best effort was running 2nd to the outstanding mare Egyptian Symbol, beaten only .5 of a length. She was only lightly raced which I like and this is her second foal. She has a filly by Russian Revolution at foot.

Positive Charge is a full sister to the very good race mare Slightly Sweet. She won twice at Group 3 level with $502,585 stakes to her name. She didn’t go to stud.

Down the page this is a nice family with a number of ‘Black type’ performers listed including the Group 1 horse Stay Tuned.

This is a lovely filly, typical of Hinchinbrook’s best ones. She is strong behind and is very athletic. She certainly looks like a runner. I’m thrilled to have her in my team.

I have paid her up for the Magic Millions race series. Sadly, this filly is a part of Hinchinbrook’s final crop of yearlings with a colt selling for $1.15 million to Coolmore Australia.

NEWS UPDATE

At Rosehill yesterday the Hinchinbrook filly Cellsabeel won by 6 lengths and is now favourite for the Golden Slipper!!!

The same filly pictured six weeks ago!!!

She has thrived during the sales preparation!!!

 Sebring / Brandish 2018 - Patrick Payne To Train

$7,750 for 5% - $15,500 for 10%

I was thrilled to secure this athletic filly by one of Australia’s best sires Sebring out of the very well related and successful mare Brandish. The filly was bred by David Kobritz who has been associated with some of Australia’s best gallopers in Subzero, Danzero and Pierro.

It is hard to fault Sebring as a sire. His statistics are superb with 539 individual winners and 56 stakes winners. Only the very best sires have better than 10% stakes winners to winners.

He was an excellent racehorse winning the Golden Slipper Stakes, Australia’s premier juvenile race. He has proven to be an incredibly versatile sire with Group 1 winners from 1200m to 2400m. He gets superior colts and fillies.

Brandish is by Elusive Quality, a great broodmare sire. The best horse out of an Elusive quality mare was by Sebring’s sire More Than Ready. Only five horses have raced with the Sebring / Elusive Quality mix with four winning including the stakes winner Vinland.

Brandish has had two to race including the good filly Aeecee Tong De which won in Sydney, Melbourne and Sydney and was placed in the Group 3 Summoned Stakes. She has been retired and in foal to Zoustar.

I know Aeecee Tong De well. She beat one of our fillies at Canterbury that we had a good opinion of at the time.

 Winning Rupert / Mowgli filly - Patrick Payne To Train

$6,500 for $5% - $13,000 for 10%

One of the secrets to giving yourself a chance of ownership success is to purchase yearlings by very fast horses. Winning Rupert was certainly that. He won five of his six starts breaking two course records in the process and going to within .1 second of Takeover Target’s Doomben record for 1200m. He was beaten as an odds-on favourite in the $2million Magic Millions Guineas which was won by our good filly Flying Jess. After this race he was found to be lame and then retired to stiud.

Leading Australian form analyst Dominic Beirne wrote this about the horse: in January 2017:

"I match-raced him at weight-for-age against Chautauqua, Astern, Star Turn, Flying Artie and Extreme Choice and based on the projected ratings for those horses at their next start, Winning Rupert was the marginal favourite”

Winning Rupert is by Written Tycoon out of a fast Show A Heart mare and comes from a running family. I was quite impressed by the overall quality of his yearlings and expect him to be a success at stud.

Mowgli had good ability but was only lightly raced. She was placed in Sydney and ran 4th in the Group 2 Sweet Embrace Stakes. She is by the speed sire Not A Single Doubt. The second dam is Flion Fenena by Lion Hunter. She was very fast winning at two and being placed in the Group 3 Sweet Embrace Stakes. I love Lion Hunter mares. His daughters have thrown Chautauqua, Star Witness, Dark Dream, Nostradamus and the sister to Mowgli in Beat The Clock.

Mowgli is a ½ sister to Champion Hong Kong sprinter Beat The Clock. Beat The Clock is a very good sprinter by Hinchinbrook which has won A$8,159,209 in Hong Kong. He is currently the best sprinter in Hong Kong. He beat Santa Ana Lane in the Hong Kong Chairman’s Sprint Cup by 2.25 lengths.

This filly looks like a 2yo and was bred at Yarraman Park. She is an exciting prospect with Patrick Payne to train.

Beat The Clock winning in Hong Kong

NEWS UPDATE

Beat The Clock is favourite for the Centenary Sprint Cup in Hong Kong tonight!!!