Any yearling sale is an exciting and challenging time for vendors, all the more so when its a first - as is the case with Aristia Park, the Koo Wee Rup nursery who are sending their first draft of yearlings to this week's Inglis Melbourne Premier.
The vision of owner John Guscic to offer to buyers the best of bloodlines from around the world has come to fruition with the stud selling the only two Frankels - a filly and a colt - at Oaklands.
Along with the progeny of a mixture of first season, young and proven stallions from classy, in-form families.
Part 1 sees the colts highlighted...
Lot 37 - Grunt (NZ) x Twilighting (brown/black colt)
A son of one of Victoria's most promising young stallions, he is out of the talented race mare Twilighting whose sire Desert Sun (GB) - off a successful stud career that saw him produce the champion Sunline (NZ) (Desert Sun {GB}) - has made an outstanding contribution as a broodmare sire with the 26 stakes winners produced by his daughters including two sprinting stars - Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and Nature Strip (Nicconi).
Racing well throughout every preparation - quickly finding winning form in her debut campaign and bowing out a Caulfield winner (her fourth success at metropolitan level), the Group 2 and twice Listed-placed Twilighting is now doing the job at stud with her first four foals all being winners... the stakes placed Flemington winner Twilight Run (Akeed Mofeed {GB}) amongst that tally.
This is a real running family with Twilighting one of three winners from four foals for Lateral Thought (NZ) (Lord Ballina) whose full sister is the G1 Winfield Classic winner Acushla Marie (NZ). Their dam Siob'han Marie (NZ) (Forty Winks {Fr}) had eight winners and is ancestress of the stakes winners Kirvinsky (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}), Kalamata (Desert Prince {Ire}), Stirling Grove (Mossman), Hucklebuck (Elvstroem), Clovelly Bay (NZ) (English Harbour), Yanna Marie (NZ) (Lord Ballina) and the recent Hong Kong winner Bon's A Pearla (Bon Hoffa).
Lot 146 - Anders x Bold Arial (bay colt)
Hailing from the debut crop of his fast sire, a son of Not A Single Doubt (already proving his worth as a sire of sires with the deeds of Extreme Choice), he is the first foal for the Flemington winner Bold Arial whose sire, I Am Invincible, is already making his mark as a broodmare sire with recent stakes winners Kimochi (Brave Smash {Jpn}) and Straight Charge (Written By) looking to have plenty more in store.
There have been 16 stakes winners combining Redoute's Choice and I Am Invincible, two Champion Sires bred on the same Danzig (USA)/Canny Lad cross.
Bold Arial showed plenty of early potential, luckless at her first two starts in Sydney juvenile features including a close-up fourth in the G3 Widden S. Her dam Helvetica (Zariz) is also a city winner and this is the family of the family of the successful stallions Haulpak and Covetous, the G1 Champagne S. winner Prized Icon and the tough stakes winners Rising Red (NZ) (Redwood {GB}), The Mikado (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), Silver Flyer (Kenmare {Fr}), Valuate (Bluebird {USA}), Sir Amadi (Maizcay), Deianira (Brocco {USA}) and the gamest of them all - the 17 times (from 131 starts) winner Mustard (Vettori {Ire}).
Lot 254 - Lonhro x Glows (brown colt)
A member of the penultimate crop of his superstar sire, he is a three-quarter brother to the dual Group winning filly Thermosphere (Exosphere) out of a talented Canny Lad mare who from 11 starts was a four times winner - including the Listed Typhoon Tracy S. (where she was tough sitting on a fast pace) - and five times placegetter.
Thirty-two of Lonhro's 36 runners out of Canny Lad mares are winners with eight (a massive 22.2%) of those being stakes winners including the Group 1 galloper The Conglomerate... a cross which makes the most of the Mumtaz Begum (Fr) (Blenheim {GB}) influence in both stallions.
This has been an excellent Woodlands family, its members including the stakes winners Pearly Kings (Quest For Fame {GB}) and Falaise (Grand Lodge {USA}) - as well as the Group 1 gallopers Deck The Halls (Father Christmas {GB}), Above Deck (Bianconi {USA}), Isivunguvungu (SAf) (What A Winter {SAf}) and King Of Pain (SAf) (Greys Inn {USA}).
Lot 455 - Frankel (GB) x Philonikia (GB) (bay colt)
The second of Aristia Park's yearlings by the mighty Frankel (GB), he is out of a winning daughter of Frankel's high-achieving Juddmonte stable mate Kingman (GB). Those two star-stallions have combined in the pedigrees of just eight runners so far but there has already been good success with two stakes winners.
This is a family that has enjoyed international and local success with an Australian flavour; Philonikia (GB) being a half-sister to the Northern Hemisphere-bred G3 Naturalism S. winner Brimham Rocks (GB) by Australia's Fastnet Rock and to the Northern Hemisphere-bred, Doncaster Listed winner Chamade (GB) by Australia's Sepoy.
Frankel's sire Galileo (Ire) has fared well with this family as sire of the G3 Park Express S. winner Oh Goodness Me (GB) who spent time in the Southern Hemisphere, producing the three-time Group-placed, three-times winner Victorem (NZ) (Shooting To Win).
Lot 596 - Hanseatic x Argemone (brown/black colt)
Another by a well-credentialled first-season sire - Rosemont's fast Street Boss (USA) stallion Hanseatic (whose progeny sold for up to $375,000 at the Gold Coast) - he is out of a lightly raced (city placed at two from just four starts) daughter of the mighty Lonhro.
Her first foal Chicalote (Frosted {USA}) is showing good potential and this is one outstanding family - this colt's grandam being the dual Group winner Romneya (Red Ransom {USA}) whose G3 Blue Diamond Prelude-winning dam, Mannington (Danehill {USA}), is out of G1 Golden Slipper S. heroine Bint Marscay (USA).
And that high-class chestnut is a daughter of the G3 Eulogy S. winner Eau d'Etoile (NZ) (Sir Tristram {Ire}) who has an impressive total of 26 stakes-winning descendants with Bint Marscay one of the seven Group 1 winners from this family... Benicio, Kenny's Best Pal, Filante (NZ), Stella Cadente (Centaine), Bollinger (Dehere {USA}) and last year's G1 Goodwood winner Royal Merchant (Merchant Navy) the others.
A colt with the dark coat of his damsire, this colt is bred on the successful Street Boss/Lonhro cross; one which has four stakes winners amongst its 16 winners from only 29 runners.
