Saturday's fifth placing in the G1 TJ Smith S. at Randwick was to prove his final racetrack start and he retired a ‘happy and sound horse’ after a stellar racing career which featured seven wins, all at stakes level, in 22 starts.

The first of his three highlight performances came in the 2019 G1 Golden Rose S., where he beat subsequent The Everest winner Yes Yes Yes and Coolmore Stud S. winner Exceedance, who have both gone on to stallion careers of their own at Coolmore and Vinery respectively.

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He then won the G1 Newmarket H. at Flemington in March last year in dominant fashion, emulating what his legendary sire had done 16 years earlier, while his third top-flight success also came down the famous Flemington straight when he won the G1 Darley Sprint Classic, defeating ruling Australian Horse of the Year, Nature Strip (Nicconi) by 3.25l.

Darley confirmed last month he would be part of its 2021 Australian roster, joining fellow freshmen Ghaiyyath (Ire), Pinatubo (Ire) and Earthlight (Ire), who will shuttle from the Northern Hemisphere.

A farewell overseas trip to Royal Ascot was initially on the agenda, but the decision has been made to retire him from the track with immediate effect.

Watch: Bivouac winning the G1 VRC Sprint Classic

“He’s telling us that he’s now ready to head off to stud,” trainer James Cummings said this week.

“We can now look back on his huge performances, like the easy victories he had over those same horses in the spring of last year.

“Everything that he achieved is the hallmark of an absolute superstar and I think he’s capable of following in the footsteps of Exceed And Excel himself.

“He was his best son on the racetrack and hopefully he will become his best son at stud.”

Cummings' assessment of him as the best-ever son of Exceed And Excel is backed up by the fact that the only horses from his 1552 winners who won more Group 1s was the star filly Guelph, who is his three-quarter sister.

He is joined by Helmet, Flamberge, Excelebration (GB) and Mr Stunning as three-time Group 1 winners by Exceed And Excel.

All of them were champions in their own right, but Bivouac has the extra item on his resume in that he was named World Champion Sprinter in 2020.

Born to be a star

He hails from a pedigree page rich with black type, with his dam, Dazzler (More Than Ready {USA}), a daughter of G1 Inglis Sires' winner Camarilla (Elusive Quality {USA}) and half-sister to Guelph and G2 Todman S. winner Ghibellines (Shamardal {USA}).

Bivouac's third dam, Camerena (Danehill {USA}), was also a Group 1 winner, claiming the Queensland Derby, while four-time Group 1 winner and stallion Sepoy also features on his page.

It was clear from very early on that Bivouac had the ability to match that pedigree, placing in his first two runs as a 2-year-old before winning the Listed Lonhro S., at his third start.

Bivouac followed his Warwick Farm win with fourth in the G2 Todman S., before winning the G3 Kindergarten S., in what was to prove the final start of his juvenile campaign.

He immediately demonstrated his improvement into his 3-year-old season when he blitzed the field by 4.25l in the G3 Vain S. at Caulfield on resumption.

At his second start back, he bumped into another star Exceed And Excel colt, Exceedance, for the first time in what would be a terrific 3-year-old rivalry.

Exceedance won the first round, triumphing in the G3 San Domenico S. but Bivouac proved his better in their next two clashes, winning both the G2 Run To The Rose S. and the G1 Golden Rose. Exceedance would finish third in both races, with Yes Yes Yes separating the two Exceed And Excel colts on both occasions.

Exceedance would then edge Bivouac out in a thrilling G1 Coolmore Stud S. in their fourth meeting later in the spring.

A Newmarket blitz

Bivouac returned in the autumn and at his second run back would easily defeat Group 1-winning pair Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible) and Gytrash (Lope De Vega {Ire}) in one of Australia's great Group 1 sprints, the Newmarket H.

In the spring of 2020, he was set for the world's richest sprint, The Everest, filling Godolphin's slot, and he performed with distinction, beaten home only by the winner Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt).

He would then turn in what was the performance of his career when he destroyed a field of top-quality sprinters in the G1 Darley Sprint Classic. It would earn him a rating of 125 on the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities rankings, enough for him to sit joint top with Classique Legend and claim the honour, along with that horse, of being World Champion Sprinter in 2020.

That was to prove his final racetrack victory, and he would end his career with nearly $5.7 million in prizemoney.

The next stage of his career is highly anticipated, with his fee set to be confirmed in the next week.

"He is right up there with the best, local Australian horses that we have put on the roster. We are very excited to have him," Darley Australia's Head of Sales, Andy Makiv, said on the announcement he would join the 2021 roster last month.

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It was a good day at Hawkesbury on Wednesday for Gerry Harvey, with the blue-lined 2-year-old filly De An Andretti, a full sister to three-time Group-winning Libertini, claiming the fillies’ Maiden Plate at her debut outing.

Trained at Randwick by master horseman Ron Quinton, De An Andretti had only a trial behind her heading into the Hawkesbury event, and she jumped awkwardly for jockey Andrew Adkins before settling towards the back.

Your Too Good (Your Song) showed most of the running before the straight and, when the field fanned for home, Harvey’s filly was still back and widest on the track. However, she ran strongly down the middle with Adkins’s good riding, and was an impressive winner by 0.33l to Your Too Good, with Hoover Lucy (No Nay Never {USA}) further back for third.

“It wasn’t good watching,” Quinton said post-race, marvelling at how De An Andretti had found her legs in the final furlong.

“It was an outstanding effort, I thought,” the trainer added. “She came out very awkward from the gate, which she’s never done before, but it tells us she’s a pretty good filly on the way up.”

Quinton said De An Andretti would head to the paddock now, but added that she’ll be a very smart 3-year-old next season.

“She’s beautifully bred, and she’s a monster of a filly for a 2-year-old,” he said. “That’s what we’ve got to take care of, that she's so big on those legs. But when you’ve got one in the stable like that, you don’t mind coming in on a morning, I can tell you.”

A man of his word

Quinton and Harvey go back a long way, with the trainer handling a few of Harvey’s good colts in the past.

“I won a couple of good races with Gerry’s colts, and the next minute he was selling them to Hong Kong,” Quinton said. “This is going back a fair way, and so I said to Gerry that every time he’d give me a nice horse, he’d sell it from me. Gerry said he’d have to start giving me fillies.”

About three or four months ago, the Baramul studmaster visited Quinton’s yard and asked of the fillies. None were by I Am Invincible, and Harvey decided upon sending one Quinton’s way.

“Gerry has always been a bloke that if he says something, he does it,” the trainer said. “And so, about a month later, this thing (De An Andretti) turned up.”

Quinton didn’t see the filly before she showed up on the truck, but he was impressed when he did. He said she was a massive horse, and that is the reason why he’s gone softly with her through only one trial before Wednesday’s race, and no ambitions to hit-up the juvenile stakes races.

“There’s nothing wrong with her, but being so big I’ve been really careful with her,” Quinton said. “I’ve been excited about this filly for quite some time now, because she has shown me things that decent ones do for you. You battle away with some of these other horses, but if they haven’t got the ability you can’t make them go.”

The trainer added that the timing was right to put De An Andretti in the paddock, but Quinton won’t relax when she’s gone.

“I’ll be worried about her more when she’s out,” he said. “Worried that she’ll run through a bloody fence.”

Two for two with Adkins

De An Andretti’s Hawkesbury win provided jockey Andrew Adkins with his second victory since returning to competitive riding after serious injury last year, and both wins have come aboard Quinton horses.

“That’s pleasing for us,” the trainer said. “Andy was on her today because he’s helped me with the jump-outs and that sort of thing in the mornings, so he deserved to be there.”

Adkins said De An Andretti was a classy girl to overcome her barrier mishap, possibly caused, the trainer said, by inexperience with an all-elastic girth.

“She half-bucked out of the gates and ran a few off the track,” Adkins said. “But she was able to set herself into a nice rhythm after that and follow the fence until the corner. As soon as she straightened up she felt like the winner, and she savaged the line like I thought she would.”

Big shoes

As you’d expect from a filly with such a pedigree, De An Andretti was an unsold yearling, a homebred retained by Harvey at Baramul Stud.

The filly is the fifth foal from Harvey’s broodmare Aloha (Encosta De Lago), who herself was a winner of the 2011 G1 Coolmore Classic in Harvey’s blue and white silks, as well as two Listed races and over $800,000 in prizemoney.

Her first two foals were consigned for sale, fetching $250,000 and $625,000 respectively, before Harvey retained Libertini and subsequent foals The Motley Fool (Sebring) and De An Andretti.

Aloha has a yearling colt called Hawaii Five Oh (I Am Invincible), owned in partnership between Harvey and John Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud (as is the case with Libertini), and the mare is in foal to I Am Invincible once again.

In The Mood for more

In the wake of De An Andretti at Hawkesbury, it proved a good afternoon for Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible with 2-year-old filly I Am In The Mood winning Race 3 at Bendigo.

Trained at Flemington by Danny O’Brien, I Am In The Mood was also debuting for the first time, and she won handily for jockey Craig Williams by 0.75l to Cardigan Queen (Sebring) and Glamour And Glory (Star Turn).

Bred at Widden Stud and passed in shy of her $500,000 reserve at last year's COVID-impacted Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, the filly is the third foal from Dubawi (Ire) mare Intimate Moment (NZ), who won the 2014 G3 Epona S. in her four-time winning career with Ron Quinton, and later Chris Waller.

Intimate Moment’s chestnut colt by Snitzel sold at last week’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Lot 350 was purchased from the Widden draft by O’Brien Thoroughbreds for $330,000, perhaps an indication the trainer knew I Am In The Mood has a fair share of ability.

Harron strikes

Meanwhile, the 2-year-old colts had their moment in the sun on Wednesday afternoon with Race 1 at Hawkesbury, the HRC Trainers’ Day Maiden Plate. Over 1100 metres, it was Aslav (Vancouver) who scored on his maiden outing in the James Harron silks.

Purchased by the prolific bloodstock agent at the 2020 Inglis Ready2Race Sale for $260,000, Aslav was an $80,000 yearling from Cornerstone Stud at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, then bought by JCS Racing.

The colt is trained at Rosehill by Chris Waller, and could be pointed at a winter campaign in Queensland. He is the second winner from the imported mare Anatole (USA) (Quiet American {USA}), a half-sister to impressive Group winners Man From Wicklow (USA) (Turkoman {USA}) and Wild Heart Dancing (USA) (Farma Way {USA}).

Anatole herself was sold by Coolmore at the 2018 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, snapped up by Cornerstone Stud for $50,000.

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Explosive Jack’s emergence may have delivered bittersweet moments for Muollo following the premature passing of his foundation sire Jakkalberry (Ire), but he is all too aware of the fickle nature of the industry.

Muollo is focused on the future and has a number of Exploding Jack’s that he continues to breed from and a daughter of resident Novara sire Sweynesse, who stands alongside Staphanos (Jpn), will carry his hopes in Saturday’s G1 Australian Oaks.

He co-bred and has sole ownership of Signora Nera (NZ), who in her second appearance from Chris Waller’s stable finished a luckless fifth in the G3 Adrian Knox S. She is a daughter of the stakes winner Madonna Mia (NZ) (Red Clubs {Ire}).

Jakkalberry was well-travelled in his racing days and the son of Storming Home (GB) won 12 races in four different countries, including the G1 Gran Premio Di Milano and finished third in the G1 Melbourne Cup and the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic.

He was secured in 2014 as Muollo’s foundation sire at his Cambridge operation, but tragically passed away in 2018 after succumbing to an intestinal infection.

“You look back, but it’s no different to any other stallion that people have lost recently like Sacred Falls, Tavistock and others. It happens and you just have to move on and make the best of it,” Muollo said.

“I look at it now and try to be a supermarket. I’m not necessarily trying to breed what the Aussies are doing, we want to breed a horse that can win a Group 1 race in Australia from 1600 to 2400 metres.”

Muollo bred Explosive Jack under his Explosive Breeding banner with the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained 3-year-old a tough customer who also won the Listed Tasmanian Derby in February.

He hails from a versatile family with G1 New Zealand Derby winner Vin De Dance (NZ) (Roc De Cambes {NZ}) close up in the pedigree and also sharper performers.

“His half-brother (Pick Number One) was a Champion Griffin in Hong Kong and had five wins from six starts at 1200 metres,” Muollo said.

“I’ve also got Short Fuse, who’s a 1200 metre horse and I’ve recently bought back Jakkelbomb, who was second in the G3 Desert Gold S., third in the Taranaki Oaks Prelude and fourth in the G3 Lowland S. The family can produce anything.”

Explosive Jack, who has won four of his seven starts, was originally purchased by Moody Racing at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for NZ$100,000.

“I was disappointed and thought he would go for much more. He was very well-balanced and when you’re taking a November yearling to the sales, compared to a September foal, you can sometimes see the difference,” Muollo.

“They have done a good job with him and I’ve watched him every start. He’s got better and better and I still think the best is ahead of him.

“I sold his half-brother by Time Test and retained a good chunk and the mare’s got a lovely Staphanos filly at foot. I have to decide whether I keep her or sell, at this stage, I’m more inclined to keep the fillies and sell the colts and the mare is in foal to Sweynesse.

“I did have a Per Incanto filly as a 2-year-old with Stephen Marsh, but she had a bad accident and had to be put down so that was quite devastating. She really looked the part.”

Sweynesse on rise

Sweynesse is tracking impressively through the early stages of his career at stud with 14 winners from 42 representatives and 7.1 per cent of stakes winners to runners.

“We had Botti win last Saturday and on Wednesday, Only Words who won the Listed Wanganui Guineas, won in Sydney and then on Friday Bonita Aurelia won for Jamie Richards,” Muollo said.

“On Saturday, I had Signora Nera in the G3 Adrian Knox S. and she was very, very unlucky and should have won so we’re pressing on to the Oaks with her.

“Only Words is heading to the Queensland carnival and Dragon Queen is also heading toward the G1 Queensland Oaks. I sold Explosively for big money to Hong Kong so Sweynesse is really going well.

“He was our leading first-season sire and nearly leading second-season sire. I have no doubt that he will make it in New Zealand. For me, the main priority is to make it in Australia and Hong Kong.

“He’s got more than enough on numbers of trial-winning colts heading to Hong Kong – Swyenesse is going great guns and I’m racing more in Australia.”

Staphanos strikes a chord

Associate sire Staphanos was a Group 3 winner and multiple Group 1 placegetter both in Japan and Hong Kong and is a son of the legendary Deep Impact (Jpn) out of a Kurofune (USA) mare.

“We’re very happy with him and two weeks ago in the G1 Osaka Hai, a race Staphanos was second in, was won by Lei Papale who is by Deep Impact out of a Kurofune mare,” Muollo said.

“The 1000 Guineas was won by Sodashi who is by Kurofune and to show how dominant Staphanos’ pedigree is, the second horse is by Deep Impact and the third is by Kizuna, a son of Deep Impact, the fourth is by Deep Impact, fifth was out of a mare by Deep Impact and so was the sixth.

“We’ve definitely got the blood and Maurice is starting to show up in Australia now and Staphanos competed against him and beat him as a 3-year-old and placed second against him in a Group 1 in Hong Kong and placed to him in a Group 1 in Japan.”

Staphanos was well-received in his first year at stud and served 108 mares.

“They are really nice foals, very athletic and very much like Staphanos. We’ll retain a lot to race and with my brother Tony we own Staphanos and he’s got 15 mares that he’s sent to support him and Sweynesse,” Muollo said. “He’s going to get every chance and we’re really excited about both stallions.”

Novara Park is currently a two-stallion operation, but are always open to adding to the roster.

“We’re always looking and nearly did a deal about a month ago, but unfortunately he didn’t tick all the boxes. It’s not just for the sake of getting a stallion, he’s got to have performance, pedigree and conformation and must be value for money,” Muollo said.

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Breeze-up sales momentum continues

After such giddy disruption to the last cycle, the first session of the European breeze-up calendar gave the sector a comforting sense that its world might be easing back on its axis.

But those seeking continuity could find it, not between the market that was eventually salvaged last summer and the one that was tested here on Tuesday, but extending from the 2-year-old sales already staged this year across the ocean.

Practical Joke has been the toast of the Florida sales, not least with the US$750,000 (AU$981,060) filly who topped the OBS March Sale, and the rookie son of Into Mischief (USA) achieved a remarkable mirror distinction when another of his daughters dominated the opening session of the Tattersalls Craven Sale at 360,000 gns (AU$680,400).

This was an exciting moment for those of us who deplore the modern schism between the American and European gene pools. After all, it was with a turf breeze that this filly had arrested so much attention. In the event, however, it turned out that she will now be repatriated to her native land to join Chad Brown.

Presented by Tally-Ho Stud as Lot 71, she was bought by Alex Elliott on behalf of White Birch Farm.

“The 2-year-old guys in Florida were raving about Practical Joke all winter,” the agent said. “But it's another thing then to go and do it. And they seem to be doing it. This is a beautiful filly and will be going back to Chad, who trained Practical Joke. She has been very highly thought of from day one. Roger has raved about her all along.”

Of course, the phenomenal Into Mischief initially had to make his name with mediocre mares and his encouraging start as a sire of sires suggests that his genetic alchemy is not necessarily going to be confined by their limitations. Practical Joke won three stallion-making Grade 1s, at two and three, and was in corresponding demand from the outset with commercial breeders. This filly is a half-sister to the Group 2-placed Rebel Tale (USA) (Tale Of The Cat {USA}) and boasts a Grade 1 winner as the third dam.

“The sireline is magic,” enthused Roger O'Callaghan of Tally-Ho. “And this is as good a filly as I have had to breeze. She has been a genuine natural from the start. I bought her as a foal with Archie St George (US$185,000 (AU$241,498) Keeneland November weanling). She didn't make the yearling sale, and we brought her here.”

Elliott noted that the complexion of this catalogue has responded to the new Royal Ascot bonus, but felt that this filly was a more traditional Craven type.

“She is a May foal, and is going to need a bit of time,” he reasoned. “She is scopey, with quality, and the more time you can give those, the better they can be. But she was the one. She did everything.”

Overall the session represented a very positive reset after the traumas of last year, when the sector was exposed to the first wave of the pandemic. In the end a Craven Sale was staged after Royal Ascot, so direct comparisons would not be valid. But the 65 lots sold of 75 offered (86 per cent) this time turned over an aggregate 6,485,000 gns (AU$12.26 million) for an 80,000 gns (AU$151,200) median and 99,769 gns average (AU$188,563).

Night improves Swann's evening

Though this Sale is dominated by colts, the most conspicuous demand through its first half was for fillies. One thing is for sure: Peter Swann will be hoping that his outlay of 265,000 gns (AU$500,850) for a daughter of Night Of Thunder (Ire), presented as Lot 50 by Star Bloodstock, ultimately gives his evening a more auspicious look than it had achieved to that point.

As Chairman of Scunthorpe Football Club, he was obliged to report that his team was already 4-0 down to Morecambe.

In this sphere, however, his Cool Silk Partnership is in the Premier League. Swann reckons he is now up to 62 winners from the breeze-up sales, and one of them is already being targeted at the richest prize on the planet next January. Working with agent Matt Coleman, Swann has found the likes of Royal Ascot winner Prince Of Lir (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and Group 1 winner Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis {USA}) at the breeze-ups; while now the ongoing success at Meydan for Midnight Sands (USA) (Speightstown {USA}) sets him up for a crack at the Saudi Cup.

Not that rocket science had been required to identify the exuberance of this filly's breeze the previous morning. But their record has allowed Swann's team to be confident in their focus.

“We've been doing it a long time now,” he said. “We just use everything we can, and ensure the horse is sound if we can. We thought this filly's breeze was excellent. And she has a great pedigree, so if we can win a race then we're halfway there. But she's definitely the sort of thing we're looking for, the way she's built: a real specimen, very strong and not too tall in the leg.”

She is the first foal of a sister to G1 July Cup runner-up Main Aim (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), the pair out of G3 Prix de Sandringham winner Orford Ness (GB) (Selkirk {USA}). The dam, who had a light career in France, offered relatively affordable access to a Juddmonte family when picked up by Rabbah Bloodstock for 38,000 gns (AU$71,820) at the December Sale here in 2016.

She was sent to Night Of Thunder in his second season at stud, and her daughter could duly ride the wave with the Kildangan stallion after he made a flying start from his first couple of crops. She was picked out of Book 2 here last October by Byron Rogers/Star BS for 95,000 gns (AU$179,550).

Coleman signed a 210,000 gns (AU$396,900) docket a few minutes later for Lot 56, a son of Oasis Dream (GB) from Oak Tree Farm bought by Mags O'Toole for 67,000 gns (AU$126,630) in Book 1 last October. But this time he was acting on behalf of colleague Anthony Stroud and Godolphin.

“Anthony and David Loder thought he was one of the picks of the Sale,” Coleman said. “He breezed very well, and obviously has a good pedigree: his mother is a sister to the dam of Calyx. And this is the same cross as Calyx. He is a grand-looking horse, Norman (Williamson) has done a good job with him.”

Dabirsim filly is different class

Dabirsim (Fr) has had an interesting career as a breeze-up stallion, his first-crop daughter Different League (Fr) having been rejected at 14,000 gns (AU$26,460) at Doncaster before entering training in the colours of his consignor's wife and winning at Royal Ascot. There was rather more interest next time she entered a ring, making 1,500,000 gns (AU$2.884 million) at the December Sale here.

So prospectors nowadays know to take a second look at this rare European outlet for the Sunday Silence (USA)-line, and there was corresponding demand for a charming filly pinhooked by Robson Aguiar as Lot 25. Picked up for €50,000 (AU$78,220) at Arqana last summer, this daughter of an unraced sister to French Listed winner Oriental (Jpn) (Smart Strike {USA}) (next dam a half-sister to Classic winner Falco (USA) (Pivotal {GB})) realised a handsome profit from Roger Varian at 240,000 gns (AU$453,600).

“She did a good breeze but wasn't blitzed,” the hometown trainer noted. “It looks like there is plenty of horse left to train. She has plenty of scope, she moves nicely and it looks like she has a good mind on her. That's what I liked: that she's not just a rock-and-roll bullet.”

Auctioneer Ollie Fowlston put down the hammer declaring that he looked forward to seeing the filly at Royal Ascot, where a new £125,000 (AU$225,000) Sale bonus will be up for grabs.

“Who knows?” said Varian with a shrug. “But she looks the sort that could be out in May. She's mature, she's strong, there's no reason not to move on.”

Varian is always considered in his judgement and his observations on the bonus scheme are worth heeding.

“She's for an existing client and I don't know that the bonus was the absolute thing that brought him to the market,” he said. “Those bonuses are jolly hard to win. But we're in a very bleak time, regarding prizemoney, a very dangerous time. So we can't knock any incentives, whether through bonuses or other schemes.”

Radcliffe's tall order

No pressure on Lot 34, a daughter of Toronado (Ire) presented by Kilminfoyle House Stud. She only has to be another Lady Aurelia (USA) (Scat Daddy {USA}).

Kerri Radcliffe, who gave 210,000 gns (AU$396,900) for the filly, was acting on behalf of Peter Leidel—one of the co-owners of Lady Aurelia, whose consecutive scores at the royal meeting were by an aggregate of 10l.

“Peter hasn't been to Ascot since Lady Aurelia,” explained Radcliffe. “So that was a factor for him. She's very racy filly from a good consignor who gets results, and that makes a big difference. She behaved well and did everything right. Hopefully she can be an Ascot filly, that's what we were looking for, and she'll be trained in England though no decisions have yet been made as to where.”

Whether she will retain her first registration is another matter: she arrived here as Babycri (Fr). Regardless she was a splendid pinhook, bought by Federico Barberini for just €33,000 (AU$51,630) at Arqana last October. She's out of a young Acclamation (GB) mare, but the second dam was a clue to the dash she exhibited in her breeze as a half-sister to another dual Royal Ascot winner Equiano (Fr), himself of course also by Acclamation.

Kilminfoyle celebrated a remarkable supplementary dividend after the Sale when sealing a deal for Lot 8, a Kingman (GB) colt who had been scratched after breezing. Tattersalls added him to its listed transactions as a 335,000 gns (AU$633,150) private sale to Manor House Stud. Bred by Frank Dunne from Listed winner Flying Fairies (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), his physique can be judged from the fact that he made €310,000 (AU$485,000) as a foal at Goffs November.