It was a great debut Inglis Classic Yearling sale for Riverstone Lodge - all but one of the seven yearlings they prepared finding homes and every one of them selling for six figures; from $100,000 to $320,000 - an impressive average of $205,000 compared to the sale's overall average of just over $92,000.
Now Nick Taylor heads to the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale with another lovely group of well-related youngsters.
Lot 124 - Admire Mars (Jpn) x Northern Model (Northern Meteor) (bay colt)
With Japanese horses proving themselves to be amongst the classiest and toughest in the world, trainers and owners should be clamouring to buy the progeny of such horses as Admire Mars (Jpn).
Crowned Japan's Champion 2-Year-Old in 2018, he won all four of his juvenile starts including the G1 Futurity S. and he was still in Group 1-winning form at three and four - adding to his record the G1 Mile Cup and the G1 Hong Kong Mile beating home the star galloper Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock).
This fellow hails from the first Australian crop of that six (from 13 starts) time winner who hails from the family of the legendary Ribot (GB).
His dam is the lightly raced two-time-winning, city-placed Northern Model whose highly successful sire Northern Meteor is doing such a good job as a broodmare sire; 12 stakes winners already.
Northern Model's first two foals to race are both winners still racing well and she is one of the four winners (from five to race) for the city winner Modellista (Redoute's Choice) whose daughters are all good broodmares.
The grandam of four stakes performers including the dual Group 2 winner Imelda Mary (NZ) (Ferlax {NZ}) - joint New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year - Modellista is a full sister to the Australian Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Miss Finland (Redoute's Choice) out of a daughter the Group 1 sprinter Wrap Around (Bletchingly).
With a pedigree featuring the full brothers Sadler's Wells (USA) and Fairy King (USA), this colt can also count amongst his relations the star Hong Kong sprinter Lucky Sweynesse (NZ).
Lot 138 - Pierata x Pass The Jewel (Danewin) (bay colt)
By a young Pierro stallion who is already making his mark with his first-crop members including the dual stakes winner Coleman (Pierata), this colt is out of a well-related mare whose first two to race are both winners.
Pass The Jewel is a full sister to the stakes-placed city winner Shaan (Danewin) and a half-sister to the metropolitan winner Regard (Zabeel {NZ}) who produced just two foals, sadly dying young.
But two exceptionally nice foals - both Group 1 winners! The G1 Thousand Guineas heroine Commanding Jewel (by Danewin's full brother Commands) and the star mare Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock), the four-time Group 1 winner whose son Russian Emperor (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has won at the elite level in Hong Kong on three occasions.
Another of Pass The Jewel's half-sisters is also doing a great job at stud - the Randwick-Kensington maiden winner Lady Beckworth (General Nediym) represented by G1 The Galaxy winner I Am Excited (Snitzel) and the G3 Frances Tressady S. winner Flippant (Hinchinbrook).
It is an excellent 84.1 per cent winners-to-runners strike rate for horses line-bred to the great matriarch Eight Carat (GB) (Pieces Of Eight {Ire}) via her champion son Octagonal (NZ) and her high-class grandson Danewin.
Of the first 37 winners bred on that same cross as this colt, three are stakes winners, one is stakes placed and five are metropolitan winners.
Lot 177 - Star Turn x Rose Ahead (Dream Ahead {USA}) (chestnut filly)
The consistent Star Turn's first two runners out of Dream Ahead mares are both winners and this filly is out of a mare who has made a great start to her stud career with her first foal Butch Cassidy (Written Tycoon) fetching $750,000 as a yearling.
That member of the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable has plenty of ability - stakes placed at debut, an easy maiden winner at second start at two and as a spring 3-year-old was competitive with the best of his age with close up finishes in four Group races including a G3 San Domenico S. third and a G1 Golden Rose fourth.
He looks set for another good campaign having won a recent Warwick Farm trial - again set down for a hit-out to trial at Rosehill on Monday.
Rose Ahead is one of the seven winners produced by the four-time city winner Southern Rose (Unbridled's Song {USA}), also dam of the G3 RN Irwin S. winner Daytona Grey (Artie Schiller {USA}) and the Listed Birthday Cup winner Mail It In (Reset).
Hailing from a high-class American family, this filly boasts a cross of the wonderful mare Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}) via her high-achieving son Nureyev (USA) and grandson Fairy King (USA).
Lot 248 - Ghaiyyath (Ire) x Tahnee Tiara (Commands) (bay/brown colt)
Hailing from the first crop of his outstanding sire whose progeny have been well-received at the sales, he is out of a tough race mare who won seven of her 43 starts - also figuring in the placings on 17 occasions.
Her first two foals - Socks Nation (Sioux Nation {USA}) and Eye Of Light (All Too Hard) - have sold well, fetching $160,000 and $170,000 with the former already a Sandown winner for the Ciaron Maher stable - and a nice fourth in the G2 Autumn Classic last month.
Price Bloodstock have the 2-year-old Eye Of Light at Lindsay Park, giving this family plenty of upside.
Tahnee Tiara is one of the seven winners for the multiple city winner Tahnee Topaz (Lonhro), also dam of the Group 1-placed stakes winner Evalina (I Am Invincible) and the in-form Tahnee Tradition (Merchant Navy) who has impressed bolting in with his last three starts.
This is a family of horses who really know how to find the line - and classy winners too, such as the Group 1 gallopers Shogun Lodge (Grand Lodge {USA}), Referral (Dr Grace {NZ}) and Singing The Blues (Bluebird {USA}).
78.6 per cent of the 28 runners combining Ghaiyyath's (Ire) superstar sire Dubawi (Ire) and Commands are winners; part of the success story that is the Dubawi/Danehill (USA) combo - one which has produced 130 stakes winners including 20 Group 1 winners.
Lot 260 - Cosmic Force x Thirty Rock (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) (bay colt)
His sire, a son of the retired high achiever Deep Field, has made a most encouraging start to his stud career and two of his stakes placed gallopers are, like this fellow, line-bred to Danehill (USA).
Four of Thirty Rock's first five to race are winners including the two-time Hong Kong winner Rock Ya Heart (I Am Invincible), the city winner Florida Keys (Sebring) and the promising Lovewillcomelater (So You Think {NZ}); a Doomben winner and twice Eagle Farm runner-up from his first three starts.
Thirty Rock's three-time stakes-placed, five-time winning dam Natural Is My Name (Naturalism) did a great job with all nine of her foals to race being winners including the Listed-winning, G1 Golden Slipper S. runner-up Zizou and the dam of the Group 3- winning, G1 The Galaxy runner-up Big Parade (by Cosmic Force's sire Deep Field).
Natural Is My Name is a half-sister to the high-class stallion Not A Single Doubt from one of Australia's most prolific Group 1 families; that of Snippets, Oohood (I Am Invincible), Forensics (Flying Spur), Daring Jon (Jon George {GB}), Ertijaal (Hard Spun {USA}), Sense Of Occasion (Street Sense {USA}), Rewaaya (Singspiel {Ire}) and King's Legacy.
Lot 370 - Zousain x Chimerique (Choisir) (bay colt)
With five winners in his debut crop, Zousain has made a nice start and this colt is from the in-form family of the recent G2 Rubiton S. winner Kallos (Medaglia D'Oro {USA}) who has done such a good job winning seven of his 20 starts, three of those at Group level.
Chimerique is a proven broodmare, the dam of five winners including the Hong Kong-based, six-time winner Country Melody (Written Tycoon) and the six-time NSW galloper Fanciful Dream (by Zousain's sire Zoustar).
Chimerique's half-sister Bulla Borghese (Belong To Me {USA}) won the G1 VRC Oaks and has also done the job at stud with her G2 Furious S.-winning daughter Bound For Earth (Northern Meteor) being the dam of two stakes placegetters and ancestress of five stakes winners.
Kallos - who is nominated for the G1 T.J Smith S. - is one of those along with Calliope (Exceed And Excel), Zethus (Exceed And Excel), Bacchanalia (Exceed And Excel) and Aquitaine (Exceed And Excel).
Lot 374 - The Autumn Sun x Cinderella (I Am Invincible)(bay filly)
There have been 16 stakes winners combining this filly's high-achieving grandsire Redoute's Choice and her damsire I Am Invincible - stallions who between them have won five Australian Championship titles.
She is the first foal for the metropolitan winning Cinderella who was successful on three occasions from just nine starts. She is a half-sister to the G1 BRC T.J Smith S. winner Sizzling and the dam of the Listed winner Bonaparte (Pierro).
Cinderella's stakes-placed dam Admirelle (General Nediym) is a daughter of the Listed Red Roses S. winner Laudemio (Alzao {USA}) - ancestress of the stakes winners Diamonds (Rich Enuff), Written Dash (Written Tycoon) and The Intimidator (Toronado {Ire}).
Continuing to be upgraded, Cinderella was a member of Justify's (USA) harem last spring, in October foaling a colt by Pinatubo (Ire).
Lot 396 - Zousain x Divine Chills (Artie Schiller {USA}) (bay colt)
Riverstone's second Zousain colt at this sale, he is out of a very nice race mare who won four races, three of those in metropolitan company at Sandown and Flemington.
She is one of the seven winners produced by the multiple city winner Divine Hope (Prego {Ire}) who was six times successful from 14 starts. She is also the dam of the G3 Bletchingly S. winner Commanding Hope (Commands) and the city winner Divine Princess (General Nediym), in turn dam of the dual Listed winner Oceano (Portland Pirate).
Every mare in this colt's female line has been a city winner and each have been fine producers, Divine Hope's Moonee Valley-winning dam Divine Favour (Straight Flight {USA}) well-represented by 10 winners whilst her dam Deslone (Princelone {Ire}) produced six winners including the G3 Lightning S. winner Desalante (Karaman {NZ}) and the dam of the durable (12 wins) Listed Christmas S. winner Bulbasaur (Aliocha {USA}).
Boasting crosses of the terrific mares Fairy Bridge (USA) (Bold Reason {USA}), Somethingroyal (USA) (Princequillo {Ire}) and Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}), this colt is a descendant of one of the famed mares of the New Zealand turf - the star mare Desert Gold (NZ) (All Black {GB}).
