Great phot of Savoureux winning at Canterbury-Samantha Clenton great ride

Once I arrived home in Melbourne and had 5 minutes to sit down and reflect on the Gold Coast Carnival I was amazed how much we had crammed into the week and more to the point just how much we had achieved.  Here are some of the highlights and also some snippets where Prime Thoroughbreds were involved.

The win by Husson Eagle was a real highlight but I was also pleased with the performances by our other horses on the day.  That we were able to get three runners at the meeting was an achievement in itself.  

Our runners in Sydney went terrifically well with Savoureux’s win being very strong and backed up by excellent runs from Raido and Awasita.  We could easily have won the last three races at Canterbury.

Also having our first winner with John Moloney was a special moment.  Maldicion was very strong through the line and looks to have a bright future.  She heads to Moonee Valley on Friday week where she will step up to 1600 m.

We purchased five really nice yearlings including the most expensive horse I have ever purchased for $561,000. The Savabeel colt out of On Broadway is a cracker.  Anyone interested in getting into him should contact me.  He is almost fully subscribed as I write this dispatch.

The win by I Am Zelady was significant as she was out of Zelady a mare we syndicated and raced.  I was the under bidder on I Am Zelady!!! The course record of Whittington which Husson Eagle smashed was also of special interest as Whittington is out of Maha Chakri, another mare we syndicated and raced.  Buffering’s win in the $1million Magic Millions Plate was well received by the owners of Reneged, a 3 years old colt which is a ¾ brother to the champion sprinter.

Finally, anyone following our purchases in recent years would be well aware of the high opinion I have of the sire Husson.  At the meeting he Husson Eagle and Lucky Hussler won and Private Secretary was 2nd in $1 million races.  Not a bad effort from just 5 runners at the meeting!!!

MAGIC MILLIONS YEARLING PURCHASES

There has been one change to the breakup of our yearlings.  I switched the Sebring to john Moloney and Kris Lees gets the I Am Invincible. The allocation and share prices of our yearlings are as follows:

Lot 2 Sebring/A Quiet Shandy filly John Moloney ($11,500 per share)

Lot 484 Savabeel / On Broadway colt John Thompson (Contact me for details)

Lot 667 Smart Missile / Tantsima filly Patrick Payne ($9,900 per share)

Lot 841 Magic Albert / Shine On Anna filly Tony Gollan ($8,500 per share)

Lot 921 I Am Invincible / Cathead filly Kris Lees ($15,000 per share)

As usual 5% share are available in all the yearlings.

I AM INVINCIBLE ON FIRE

I Am Invincible continued his dominant run winning the $250,000 Inglis Dash at Flemington on Saturday with Hellbent coring in commanding fashion.

This follows on from I Am Zelady’s amazing win in the Magic Millions $1million Filly and Mare’s Classic at the Gold Coast last week.

It pays to remember I Am Invincible was Australia’s

·         Leading 1st Season Sire in 2013/14 Season

·         Leading 2nd Season Sire (Winners) in 2014/15 Season

·         Is currently Leading 3rd Season Sire for the 2015/16 Season

It may pay you to have a close look at the two fillies I am offering by I Am Invincible.  They are both good types of horses and come from running families.

ON THE TRACK

We have some nice chances between now and the end of January with Bella Venus in Launceston on Wednesday, Makeadane at Canterbury on Friday night, Raido at Randwick on Saturday, Naranja at Newcastle on Saturday, Stimuli and By Golly Molly at Wyong on Sunday and perhaps Strike for Victory and Tough Vic in Hobart on Sunday. On Australia Day Unique, Awasita and Savoureux are likely to head to Randwick.

Of course no fields are out with the exception of Bella Venus and things could change due to barrier draws and track conditions.

OUR NEW ADDITIONS!!!

Sebring – A Quiet Shandy John Moloney to train

The filly

The moment I saw this filly I thought I was looking at Unchain My Heart at a similar age.  They are very similar with this filly having a touch more scope.  She was reared at Edinburgh Park by Ian Smith who bred Silent Witness.  She has a strong hindquarter, attractive head and gets around nicely.  Her temperament was good and she had no issues when vetted.

It is hard to predict when she will get to the races but she is forward enough to suggest she may get up and going as a two year old and she is by Sebring who gets runners at all ages and distances from precocious two year olds through to Melbourne Cup horses.

I am expecting that she will get better with age which her pedigree suggests will be the case.

Sebring

Sebring is one of our very best sires and currently 5th on the National Sires List.  He is the sire of Criterion, one of the best horses in Australia.  Sebring won a Golden Slipper and sired Australian Horse Of The Year in Dissident. It is impossible to fault him as a sire.

He possesses a very strong female line which in my opinion is a characteristic most of the best stallions have.  Sebring’s sire More Than Ready has done a remarkable job in Australia and is still in great demand.

A Quiet Shandy

A Quiet Shandy is a metropolitan winner and full sister to the Listed and Group 1 winner Becerra. Becerra was placed in the Queensland Oaks and is out of a Scenic mare.  If you look down the page we see A Quiet Shout out of a well related Al Maher mare out of a Scenic Mare out of a Best Western mare out of a Tattenham mare.  

This pedigree page which sees First Seal, Episode, Macquarie Prince, Book Of Keels and of course Becerra listed suggests to me we may have a classic filly at three.

Our filly was in the wrong sale and would have been better placed in the Inglis Easter Sale where the buyers are looking for classic three year old fillies.

I couldn’t recommend a filly more highly and look forward to her getting to the track.  She is ideally suited to racing in Victoria where there are far more races on offer for horses that get over ground than in the other states.

Savabeel – On Broadway John Thompson to train

The colt

The moment I saw this colt at Sledmere Stud near Scone in December I was determined to put a team together to try and secure him.  He is a superb colt and has the pedigree to be very good indeed.  

He has a superb head and is a beautifully well balanced athlete.  I can’t remember ever seeing a yearling walk like him.  His gait is so graceful and he covers plenty of ground as he walks.  

I would expect this colt to be at his best as a three year old but because he is so athletic I have decided to pay him up for the rich Magic Millions Race Series and we do see the outstanding sprinter Swick on the pedigree page.  There are also some very good two year old winners littering the pedigree.

Savabeel

This bay New Zealand-bred colt is by last season's Champion Sire Savabeel, already the sire of over 40 stakes winners.

He is the second foal of the Unraced Pins mare On Broadway, herself a sister to stakes performer Pins On Parade and to stakes placed Dower, who is in turn the dam of the multiple Listed-winning, Group 1 placed Dowager Queen, a daughter of Savabeel - proving the pedigree cross works in this family.

It is a family that includes not only staying blood through the likes of Savabeel and Dowager Queen, but also outstanding sprinting capabilities through Swick, a winner of the Group 1 Patinack Classic (now Darley Classic) and the Group 2 Salinger Stakes.

Mares by Pins have produced two Group 1 winners to date highlighted by Brambles, who, like out colt is by Savabeel!

On Broadway

On Broadway is by Pins who has established himself as a very good broodmare sire and is currently 5th on the NZ Broodmare List for this season.  It shouldn’t be surprising Pins is doing such a good job.  He was a high class son of Champion Sire Snippets out of the Kaoru Star mare No Finer.  

In fact if you look at the pedigree we see Zabeel, Success Express, Snippets, Lunchtime, Sir Tristram, Nureyev, Last Tycoon, Kaoru Star and O’Reilly featured in the the first two dams on each side of the pedigree page.

If this colt could win a Group 1 race and be able to go to stud he would be worth a fortune with no Northern Dancer in his pedigree.

I’m thrilled to have him and I am certain John Thompson will do a great job with him.  

Magic Albert – Shine On Anna Tony Gollan to train

The filly

This is a very attractive filly and the best foal Shine On Anna has had.  She is very athletic and looks like a runner.  The filly vetted out without any issues and could well train on to be a very handy three year old.  The other two foals out of the mare to race have been winners and the 3rd is being trained by Robert Smerdon with the reports on her being positive.

Going forward Shine On Anna is in foal to Not A Single Doubt.

Magic Albert

Magic Albert was an outstanding sprinter miler with wins over multiple Group One winners Viscount, Excellerator and Ha Ha.  He is by leading sire Zeditave and completely free of Northern Dancer blood.

Sire of the winners $20 million in prizemoney inc. Group 1 winners Ilovethiscity, Albert The Fat, Magic Cape and Fighting Warrior.

Group and Stakes winners Something Anything, Za Magic, Marchinski (Vital Flyer), Plain Magic, Al Be Nimble, Master Harry, Tai Tai Tess, Straight Albert, Alberto (NZ), Isopach, Ron’s Call, Albert The Fat, Ilovethiscity, Magic Cape (NZ), Tweet, Orbity (NZ), Aldini etc.

Leading First Crop Sire by Individual Winners 2005/2006 – 14 winners.  Sire of 100 plus winners in 2013/2014, 2012/2013, 2011/2012 and 2010/2011.

We have had great success purchasing yearlings by the sire including the stakes horses Too Many Reds, Hotel Grand, Greenmount Belle and I Am Magic.

Shine On Anna

Shine On Anna was an excellent filly whose career was cut short by injury when she looked to be a major player in the Melbourne Spring Carnival. This is her 4th foal.She has had two to race with both being winners including the Brisbane metropolitan winner Annaman.  

The mare won her final two starts at Flemington and Caulfield. She is by the very good broodmare sire Anabaa out of a stakes placed Machiavellan mare.

I regard Shine On Anna in the top half a dozen horses I have syndicated.

I Am Invincible – Cathead Kris Lees to train

The filly

I inspected this filly in October at Yarraman Park and was delighted with her as I watched her progress towards the Magic Millions Sale at the Gold Coast.  She is very athletic, not too big and typical of the progeny of her sire.  They ooze class and were very well received at the sale where they averaged over $200,000.

This filly may well run as a two year old and I am paying her up for the Magic Millions Series. I love the filly as a type and look forward to her racing.

I Am Invincible

I Am Invincible was Australia’s Leading First season Sire in 2013/14 Season by both stakes money and individual winners.  In fact in his first season he gapped the opposition with as many winners as the next three sires on the list.  In his second season he continued the good work finishing 2nd to Medaglia d’Oro for the stakes earnings. Medaglia d’Oro figures were somewhat distorted with him having the Golden Slipper winner which accounted for over half his stakes earnings.  Once again I Am Invincible had the most individual winners in this year.  

55.1% of I Am Invincible’s runners won during the season with him being the only sire in the top 10 on the 2nd season list standing in Australia to break the half century.  At the completion of the 2014/15 Season he was 3rd to Fastnet Rock and Street Cry on the National 3 Year Old List with both these sires having far stronger books of mares than I Am Invincible.

I Am Invincible’s duel Group 1 winning son Brazen Beau has been purchased by Darley and is standing this season at a service fee of $44,000.  He was also placed 2nd in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.  

I Am invincible had his service fee raised to $55,000 this breeding season and was fully booked out in a matter of days and Yarraman Park are already taking bookings for next season.  

Cathead

Cathead comes from a very good female line that sees the Champion galloper Mahogany on the page.  She has had one to race with him winning 5 races.

As I wrote earlier Cathead is well related and by the Golden Slipper winner Catbird.  Catbird was a very well bred horse with a particularly strong female line.  Catbird’s stud career was cut short but he did a good job at stud and he is proving to be a very capable broodmare sire with the horses of the Group and Stakes of the calibre of Hawkspur, Catkins, Mystic Prince, Lady Royale, Atacama, Real Charm, Pinch River, Silversands and Entisaar coming from his daughters.

One of the strong characteristics of I Am Invincible is that he crosses well with almost any sire line and he has in most cases upgraded the performance of the mares he has served.  In fact there is no particular sire line that stands out with his 15 stakes performers to date being represented by 14 different broodmare sires.

Smart Missile filly out of Tantsima 2014

Patrick Payne to train - Ladies Only Syndicate

The filly

This filly is a strong nicely balanced athlete that gets around well and has a real presence about her.  She is very strong behind, particularly through the hocks which is a characteristic of the progeny of the other fillies I have by Smart Missile.

She vetted out without any issues and was reared at Noralla stud on the Darling Downs in South East Queensland which is developing a reputation for breeding tough sound horses.

The filly is a September foal and will be broken in in February/ March of 2016 with a view to giving her every chance to run as a two year old.  She comes from a very precocious family with her dam winning at two and some very handy two year olds on the page.

I have paid this filly up for the full Magic Millions Series and she is our Ladies Syndication for 2016.

Smart Missile

Smart Missile was my pick as the top first season this season.  He has started ok and already has a Stakes winner to his credit.  My three Smart Missile fillies I syndicated last season look like being very handy horses.  The Smart Missiles were very well supported at the Magic Millions Sale this year.

Tantisma

Tantsima is by the up and coming broodmare sire Fasliyev which sits at 30 on the Australian Broodmare List this year up from 100 two years ago.  Fasliyev is by the Champion Sire Nureyev which has had such a big influence here.  

Fasliyev has 53 stakes horses out of his daughters including Big Orange, Meliora, Miss Rose De Lago, Indian Ocean and Fell Swoop.

When Fasliyev arrived in Australia I was impressed by his yearlings and while his results here were nothing to write they were satisfactory with gallopers like Ullyesses, Good Control, Club Liquid and How Good Is He.  One thing they were was very good wet trackers and impressive types that drew big money in the sales ring.

Tantsima has already produced a handy one in Never Dwell and Generator George who was placed last season.

I am really looking forward to this filly racing and feel I purchased her well under the odds.