The two top-priced mares at this week’s Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale were both by Arrowfield stallions. Champion sire Redoute’s Choice supplied the top-priced lot Dariana purchased for $800,000 by the Belmont Bloodstock Agency on behalf of leading Western Australian owner & breeder Bob Peters. Dariana is in foal to Street… Read More »
Dances On Stars brought up the 20th stakes win this season by Snitzel’s progeny when he stormed home in today’s $175,000 GCTC Prime Minister’s Cup 1300m LR. Those 20 successes have been achieved by 13 horses, nine of them Group winners, headed by Group 1 winners Shamus Award and Snitzerland…. Read More »
Not A Single Doubt’s 22 stakeswinners are almost evenly divided between the sexes (12 colts, 10 fillies), but this season his 3YO daughters Gypsy Diamond & Villa Verde have taken the limelight. Today Teeley Assets’ homebred filly Miracles Of Life (ex Dazzling Gazelle by More Than Ready) stepped up to… Read More »
All but one of his 19 starts were in Australia, and Arrowfield Stud now has a firm grip of his passport, but Kiwis remain rightly proud of Dundeel as a superstar born on their side of the Tasman. Not forgetting that he was bred, trained & ridden by New Zealanders,… Read More »
One runner well worth following from Anzac Day racing at Flemington is the 2YO colt Light Up Manhattan (Manhattan Rain-Luminata by Zabeel). He became the second stakes performer for first season sire Manhattan Rain when he powered home late to nab second in the VRC Anzac Day S. 1210m LR,… Read More »
Flying Spur’s son Zac Spirit sealed his status as Singapore’s best sprinter with a dashing win in Sunday evening’s $S500,000 Lion City Cup 1200m Sgp-1. Ridden by Alan Munro, 4YO gelding defeated arch-rival Emperor Max by 1.5 lengths in 1:08.78. Goal Keeper was a short head away in third place…. Read More »
With a international Group race double in the bag, thanks to Tango’s Daughter in Adelaide, and the brilliant 2YO filly Majmu at Turffontein, Redoute’s Choice could have signed off for the weekend, well-satisfied with an excellent day’s work. But, no, he wasn’t quite finished yet. His 4YO daughter Honorine lined… Read More »
Champion sire Redoute’s Choice today posted his fourth Group race double since 1 February when his daughters Tango’s Daughter & Majmu scored in Australia and South Africa. 3YO Tango’s Daughter continued the tremendous run of success this season for owner-breeder Teeley Assets when she prevailed in a straight-long duel with… Read More »
If there is a prescription for the ideal syndicate horse it would surely read something like this: At two, wins on debut before Christmas, progresses to win a stakes race & place in Group 1 company, and earns 7 times the purchase price after nine starts. At three, wins a… Read More »
If the gold and blue colours carried by Brenton Avdulla on board today’s ATC J.H.B. Carr S. 1400m G3 winner Estonian Princess look vaguely familiar…well, they should. After all, it’s only a year since they were last carried in Sydney by Not A Single Doubt’s brilliant daughter Karuta Queen, retired… Read More »
The dam of Arrowfield’s new stallion, the six-time Group 1 winner Dundeel, will visit the Stud’s flagship sire Redoute’s Choice this coming Spring. Murray & Jo Andersen, breeders and part-owners of Dundeel, confirmed earlier this week their decision to send Stareel (Zabeel-Staring by Fiesta Star) to the champion son of… Read More »
Arrowfield Stud today announced the 2014 service fees for its 10-stallion roster headed by champion sire Redoute’s Choice who will command a fee of $110,000 inc. GST as he challenges for his third Australian stallion premiership. With ten stakeswinners this season, and 24 lifetime Group 1 winners, including world champion… Read More »
The retirement of It’s A Dundeel to Arrowfield Stud was announced on Monday by Arrowfield Chairman John Messara. He will be known at stud by his original New Zealand-registered name of Dundeel and his 2014 service fee will be $27,500 inc. GST. The son of High Chaparral and Stareel (by… Read More »
It’s A Dundeel made history in Arrowfield’s famous black-and-yellow diamond silks on Saturday when he swept to his sixth Group 1 victory in the $4 million ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes over 2000 metres at Royal Randwick. A perfect climax to the first presentation of The Championships, the race matched its… Read More »
It’s A Dundeel was the undoubted star for Arrowfield at The Championships on Saturday, but three runner-up finishes by a home-bred colt, a sale graduate and a daughter of Not A Single Doubt were also very pleasing. Ron Finemore & John Leaver’s home-bred 3YO filly Gypsy Diamond became the 8th… Read More »
Two superlative Group 1 performances on the first day of The Championships at Royal Randwick have shot Redoute’s Choice to the top of the Australian General Sires’ list with $8.7 million, ahead of his brilliant son Snitzel on $8.2 million. The world’s top-ranked sprinter Lankan Rupee (ex Estelle Collection by… Read More »
Gypsy Diamond’s part-owner and co-breeder Ron Finemore was smiling broadly after the 3YO filly ran out an impressive winner of the $200,000 ATC Carbine Club S. 1600m G3 on Day 1 of The Championships at Royal Randwick. Topweight of 57kg and a Heavy9 track offered a serious test for the… Read More »
A week after his son Bachman won the ATC T.L. Baillieu H. G3, first season sire All American has added a second stakes performer to his record. Her name is Tender and she finished strongly to place third in Saturday’s SAJC Dequetteville S. 1000m LR for her breeder Newhaven Park… Read More »
Leading Australian and international buyers ensured strong demand for yearlings by Redoute’s Choice at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Sale which concluded on Thursday. Twenty-two lots by the champion sire sold for an average price of $380,909, and a median price of $355,000, with eleven yearlings knocked down for $400,000… Read More »
The Watson family of Mill Park Stud extended their outstanding record as vendors of yearlings by Starcraft when they sold his daughter from Dane Belltar for $650,000 on the final day of the Inglis Australian Easter Sale. That figure is a new benchmark for Starcraft and was paid by David… Read More »
