It's a quality draft of nine being paraded from the Chester Barn for Lustre Lodge, all sons and daughters of high-class proven stallions. There are yearlings by a couple of Champion Sires and all but one of the horses represented have already sired Group 1 winners, making their horses a great starting point for any keen buyer.
Lot 69 - Toronado (Ire) x Veravarti (NZ) (O'Reilly {NZ}) (bay filly)
By one of Australia's most popular stallions and prolific winner getters, she is out of a consistent two-time winning daughter of the three-time Group 1-placed Listed winner Vedodara (NZ) (Kreisler {Ire}) whose outstanding record as a broodmare fills the catalogue page!
All 11 of her foals to race are winners including the G1 Avondale Gold Cup winner Sharvasti (NZ) (Montjeu {Ire}), the dual Group 3 winner Bhandara (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) and the Group 3 galloper Shastri (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}).
Vedodara is also grandam of the Group winners Semari (NZ) (Sebring) and Tourbillon Diamond (Olympic Glory {Ire}) and great-grandam of the 2024 G2 Autumn S. winner Snow Patrol (NZ) (Contributer {Ire}).
This is a prolific black-type family with this lovely dual-purpose filly also able to claim amongst her relations the Group 1 winners Linton (Galileo {Ire}), Barathea (Ire), Gossamer (GB) (Sadler's Wells {USA}), Ibn Khaldun (USA) (Dubai Destination {USA}), Santa Monica (NZ) (Per Incanto {USA}) and Bring Me Speed (Sebring).
There have been just two Toronado (Ire) runners out of mares with an O'Reilly (NZ) strain and both are winners including the dual Group winner Treasured Star. She is one of the four stakes winners amongst the 25 winners bred on the very successful Toronado/Last Tycoon (Ire) cross, one that provides for a cross of the terrific mare Sex Appeal (USA) (Buckpasser {USA}).
Veravarti, a $180,000 yearling and $500,000 broodmare purchase, is producing outstanding types with her latest son through the ring being the $400,000 colt I Am Adonis (I Am Invincible), a member of the Michael, John and Wayne Hawkes stable who just recently trialled well at Rosehill.
Lot 180 - Written By x Audacious Choice (Redoute's Choice) (chesnut filly)
All of Champion Sire Written Tycoon's sons have been represented by stakes winners and they do a particuarly good job with the Redoute's Choice line (26 stakes winners, four Group 1 winners); a cross which provides for the duplication of the great mare Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}).
Written By is already line-bred to her, his second damsire Umatilla (NZ) being a son of Redoute's Choice's grandam Dancing Show (USA) (Nijinsky {Can}) and he has already sired two stakes winners; The Novelist and Ripcord out of Redoute's Choice-line mares.
This filly, who has a definite look of her sireline, is out of the proven producer Audacious Choice (Redoute's Choice), a consistent city-placed, two-time winner whose first two foals are both lightly raced winners and whose third, Presumptuous Gal (Toronado {Ire}), is a member of the Chris Waller stable.
Audacious Choice is one of the six winners produced by the G1 NZ Bloodstock Breeders S. winner Barinka (NZ) (Shinko King {Ire}) whose son Prime Star (Starspangledbanner) won the R. Listed Inglis Millennium.
There is a fair bit of history to this family, one of those special ones able to claim a G1 Melbourne Cup winner; in this case Red Handed (NZ) (Le Filou {Fr}).
Lot 259 - Maurice (Jpn) x Charleise (Foxwedge) (bay filly)
By a stallion who owners and trainers love and bred on the same Maurice (Jpn)/Danehill (USA) cross as the Group 1 winners Hitotsu and Mazu and seven other stakes winners, she is the first foal for a very talented race mare.
A five-time winner and 10 times placed from 31 starts, the classy and consistent Charleise (Foxwedge) was stakes-placed behind Microphone at her debut at two, remaining competitive in good company and winning the Listed Spear Chief H.
A $450,000 broodmare purchase, served last spring by Ozzmosis, she is out of a two-time winning Lonhro mare from the same branch of the excellent Audrey Joan (GB) (Doutelle {GB}) family as the speedy stakes winners Happy Giggle, Schubert (Salieri {USA}), Livelihood (Rory's Jester), Living Spirit (Hennessy {USA}), Seaside (Redoute's Choice) and Only She Can (Marju {Ire}).
Lot 536 - Capitalist x Jaylo (Helmet) (bay filly)
By a high-class proven stallion out of a winning half-sister to the speedy Listed Quezette S. winner Elite Elle (Shamardal {USA}), this bright bay filly hails from a real runners family.
A descendant of the great matriarch Teppo (GB) (Ladas {GB}), her dam Jaylo (Helmet) is one of the seven winners produced by the multiple city winner Mystic Elle (Encosta De Lago).
And that mare is one of the eight winners from as many to race for the Flemington winner Richelle (Century) who is in turn one of the nine winners from 11 named foals for the Listed Talindert H. winner Rich Habit (Karaman {NZ}).
That's 24 winners from 28 runners in three generations of Jaylo's family and there is plenty of quality there too with the stakes performers Classic Elle (Reset), Cancanelle (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), Don'ttelltheboss (Street Boss {USA}), Esroh (Perugino {USA}) and Gail (Bianconi {USA}) whose promising son Magnupur (Magnus) is a last-start Flemington winner whilst another relation in good form in 2024 was the dual city winner Herbert Park (Toronado {Ire}).
This filly boasts an interesting cross of the stakes-winning, high-class broodmare Khairunissa (GB) (Prince Bio {Fr}) via her classy sons Kalamoun (GB) and Karayar (Ire).
Lot 550 - Snitzel x Just Field (Deep Field) (bay filly)
Her sire needs no introduction, and she is the first foal for a very good race mare, a three-time winning, multiple city placegetter who was competitive in stakes company.
Bred on the same highly successful Snitzel/Encosta De Lago cross as the Group 1 winners Quintessa (Shamus Award), Communist (Russian Revolution), Sword Of State, Invader and Summer Passage (Snitzel), she is a granddaughter of the Listed winner Shoboard (Show A Heart); also grandam of the dual Listed winner Granny Red Shoes (Not A Single Doubt) whose son High Octane (Deep Field) won a Listed Blue Diamond Preview and whose grandson Brave Spirit (Brave Smash {Jpn}) is also a Listed winner.
This has been a terrific Australasian family, one which has produced the Group 1 winners Star Satire (NZ) (Volksraad {GB}), Silver Wraith (NZ) (Silver Dream {GB}), Ray's Hope (NZ) (Star Way {GB}) and Silver Nymph (NZ) (Silver Dream {GB}) as well as the exciting Group 1-placed, Listed-winning 4-year-old I Am Unstoppable (I Am Invincible).
Lot 641 - Wootton Bassett (GB) x Mariquita (I Am Invincible) (bay colt)
Bred on the same Wootton Bassett (GB)/I Am Invincible cross of one of his sire's most promising first Australian crop members in Gallo Nero (a $370,000 purchase at this sale last year and one of the R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic favourites), he also boasts a strain of the great Sadler's Wells (USA).
Wootton Bassett meanwhile has that stallion's three-quarter brother Nureyev (USA) and he picks up exceptionally well on Sadler's Wells influence with five of his Group 1 winners and another 19 of his stakes winners bred on this cross, one which provides for the duplication of the wonderful mare Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}).
He is a descendant of the legendary Mumtaz Mahal (GB) (The Tetrarch {GB}) with his fourth dam being the champion sprinter and Timeform Horse of the Year Habibti (Ire) (Habitat {USA}).
His dam (a $250,000 broodmare purchase) was a very good race mare, the winner of four races including sprinting contests at Canterbury and Rosehill. Her first foal is a winner and she can claim amongst her close relations the German and Italian Champion 3YO Morshdi (GB) (Slip Anchor {GB}) and the triple Group 1 winner Humidor (NZ) (Teofilo {Ire}).
Lot 707 - Written Tycoon x My True Love (Fastnet Rock) (chesnut colt)
Built very much in the mould of his Champion Sire and bred on the same Written Tycoon/Fastnet Rock cross as Lady Of Camelot, he boasts a cross of Better Boy as do Written Tycoon's Group 1 winners Booker and Tycoon Tara.
A member of the prolific "Leica" family, he is the fourth foal for a very good race mare, a Randwick and Warwick Farm winner who was twice placed in Group company. A $250,000 yearling and a $370,000 broodmare purchase, she has had two runners and both of those were smart 2024 winners.
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Miss Amore (Pierro) bolted in at her Newcastle debut whilst True Amor (I Am Invincible), a $550,000 graduate of this sale, won his maiden for the John O'Shea and Tom Charlton stable at Kembla Grange in the spring.
My True Love (Fastnet Rock) is one of the four winners produced by the G3 Jansz S. winner Lectrice (Encosta De Lago), half-sister to the Group 1 winners Leica Guv (NZ) (Deputy Governor {USA}) and Light Fantastic (Danehill Dancer {USA}) and to the dam of last year's G1 Goodwood H. winner Benedetta (Hellbent).
Lot 709 - Toronado (Ire) x Nags to Riches (Written Tycoon) (chesnut colt)
Another lovely Toronado (Ire) offering from Lustre Lode, he is the first foal for a talented race mare who won three of her nine starts including a very easy all-the-way victory at her Hawkesbury debut at two.
Earning black type with a game, close up third in the Listed Denise's Joy S., Nags To Riches (Written Tycoon) is one of four winners for her imported dam Corporate (USA) (Mt Livermore {USA}) whose dam is the Listed winner Zante (GB) (Zafonic {GB}) who also did a good job at stud with her four winners.
This colt is bred on the same Toronado/Written Tycoon cross as the stakes winner The Intimidator, one which provides for that lovely cross of Sex Appeal (Buckpasser {USA}) to whom Toronado's Group 1 son Masked Crusader is line-bred.
As an exciting pedigree bonus, this colt's sixth dam is Sex Appeal's dam Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}), one of the great modern-day line-breeding forces. And, of course, ancestress of many a great horse including Redoute's Choice.
Lot 1012 - Written Tycoon x Sweet Deal (Casino Prince) (bay colt)
Another eye-catching son of Written Tycoon, he is out of a mare by Casino Prince whose dam is bred on the same Last Tycoon (Ire)/Kenmare (Fr) cross as Written Tycoon. And this combination works well; 13 winners from the first 19 runners including the R. Listed Magic Millions Guineas heroine Abounding (Rich Enuff).
He is the second foal for a terrific race mare, Sweet Deal (Casino Prince) being an 11-time winner and 11 times placed from 48 starts, amassing over $1.6 million in stakes with her four wins at Group 3 level.
An $850,000 purchase for Lustre Lodge, Sweet Deal has a Zoustar colt as her first foal and an Extreme Choice as her third; served last spring by I Am Invincible; giving her every chance to excel.
Sweet Deal's dam is a Royal Academy (USA) half-sister to eight winners from the family of the feature race winners Monopolize (Rubiton), Dance Beat (Esperanto {USA}), Throne Inn (King Of Kings {Ire}), Chipolata (Lunchtime {GB}), Pipiwar (Marscay) and Lord Monty (NZ) (His Royal Highness {NZ}).
