Last year's Inglis Classic Yearling Sale was the first for Riverstone Lodge and what a successful debut it was with 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 $190,000 compared to the sale’s overall average of just over $92,000.
A year on and Nick Taylor takes another eye-catching group of yearlings to Sydney with highlights of the Riverstone draft including...
Lot 20 - Wootton Bassett x Ammirata (Nadeem) (brown colt)
His exciting young sire is showing a nice affinity for Danehill (USA) and he is excelling with mares who carry a strain of the great Nijinsky (Can) as the G3 Belle Of The Turf Stakes winner Ammirata has.
Wootton Bassett (GB) has sired four Group 1 winners and 16 other stakes winners bred that way, noting that his grandsire Zafonic (USA) is out of a mare by Nijinsky's three-quarter brother The Minstrel (Can); the G1 Canadian Oaks heroine Flaming Page (USA) (Bull Page {USA}) duplicated.
A terrific race mare who won six of her 17 starts, Ammirata is doing the job at stud with her first three foals all winners, two at metropolitan level. She is one of the five winners for her imported dam Iguana Jo (USA) (Dynaformer {USA}), also dam of the stakes-placed multiple city winner Island Missile (Smart Missile).
What a family this is, this colt with a stallion's pedigree able to boast amongst his relations A P Indy (USA), Wolfhound (USA), Summer Squall (USA), Duke Of Marmalade (Ire), Lemon Drop Kid (USA), Statue Of Liberty (USA) and the local Group 1 winner Profondo.
Lot 83 - Exceedance x Buckin' Beauty (Delago Deluxe)(bay filly)
Two of Exceedance's first three runners out of Encosta De Lago line mares are winners including the stakes winner Swiftfalcon and this filly is the first foal for a tough and durable race mare who won eight of her 50 starts, also filling placings on 14 occasions.
A multiple city-winning sprinter, Buckin' Beauty is a half-sister to the smart Hong Kong galloper Team Fortune (I Am Invincible) from the prolific Etoile De France (Ire) (Arctic Star {GB}) that produced the great Dubawi (Ire).
Lot 84 - Farnan x Bulle de Champagne (Hurricane Run) (bay colt)
From the second crop of his G1 Golden Slipper Stakes-winning sire, he has a 2-year-old full brother called Fasvara, a $160,000 weanling, in the Kris Lees stable; that promising sort trialling nicely last spring.
The imported Bulle De Champagne by the star galloper Hurricane Run, is a half-sister to the Australian Champion Miler Contributer (Ire) and to the dam of the in-form Japanese galloper Sunrise Zinpangu (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), a Group 3 and dual Listed winner from his first 14 starts.
This colt carries an exciting 5 X 4 cross of the stakes winning high-class broodmare Coup De Folie (USA) (Halo {USA}) via her high-achieving sons Machiavellian (USA) and Exit To Nowhere (USA).
Lot 90 - So You Think x Calgary Queen (Real Impact) (bay filly)
Bred on the same successful So You Think/Flying Spur cross as the Group 1 winners Think About It and Nakeeta Jane, she is the first foal for a talented race mare who won four of her 20 starts.
Enjoying success at metropolitan level, she is a half-sister to the Listed-winning sprinter Urban Groove (Charge Forward) out of a city-winning daughter of the record breaking dual Group 1 winner Heat Of The Moment (Blazing Saddles).
This has been a family of high-class performers for generations, its other members including the G1 WS Cox Plate hero Solvit (NZ) (Morcon {GB}) and the G1 Goodwood Handicap winner Romantic Son (Romantic {GB}).
Lot 196 - Zousain x Erin's Element (Shaft) (bay/brown colt)
Boasting a cross of the terrific mare Rolls (USA) (Mr Prospector {USA}), the grandam of Encosta De Lago and the dam of Flying Spur, he is a full brother to the $200,000 colt Dashing Basics (Zousain) who has shown nice talent at the trials.
He is a son of a very good race mare, the winner of five races (and nine times placed) from 37 starts. Also dam of the Flemington winner Wiggum (Rich Enuff), she is a half-sister to the stakes winner Nosmo King (NZ) (Cullen) from the family of the G1 Queensland Oaks winner Tristram Rose (NZ) (Sir Tristram {Ire}) and the triple Group 1-winning sprinter Flamberge (Exceed And Excel).
This is a prolific family, one which has as its ancestress the great Australian mare Chicquita (Blank {GB}). She has 60 stakes-winning descendants with 12 of those being Group 1 winners.
Lot 301 - Ole Kirk x I Am (I Am Invincible) (bay colt)
How is the stallion strength to this fellow's pedigree?! He is by an exciting son of the Champion Sire Written Tycoon out of a mare by I Am Invincible whose dam is by Redoute's Choice.
This Written Tycoon/Redoute's Choice combination, one that provides for a cross of the great mare Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}) has produced 30 stakes winners, five of whom are Group 1 horses.
A $600,000 Easter yearling, I Am is a half-sister to the Listed winner Cuba (All Too Hard) out of a daughter of the G1 Galaxy winner La Baraka (Euclase) whose dam is the multiple Group 1-winning star mare Triscay (Marscay).
This is a family that just keeps on giving, Triscay being the ancestress of 14 stakes winners with Astern another Group 1 performer.
Lot 354 - Capitalist x La Praline (Anabaa) (chestnut colt)
The son of a classy proven stallion, he has as his dam a multiple city (Melbourne and Adelaide) winning mare who is already doing the job at stud with four winners including the metropolitan winners Chocolatier (Redoute's Choice) and Glorious Journey (NZ) (Sacred Falls {NZ}).
La Praline is a daughter of the Group 2 mare Viennetta (NZ) (Pins) whose four winners from five foals to race include the Group 3 winner Golden Archer.
Grandam of the G2 VRC Sires Produce Stakes winner Let'srollthedice (Dundeel {NZ}), Viennetta is a half-sister to the New Zealand Champion Sprinter Butterscotch (NZ) (Gold Brose) from the family of the Group 1 winners Headturner (Anabaa), Anacheeva, O'Marilyn (O'Reilly {NZ}) and Munson (El Moxie {USA}).
Fourteen of Capitalist's 19 runners out of Anabaa line mares are winners including his stakes winners Amazing Eagle and Economics.
Lot 646 - Bivouac x Siyaadeh (Written Tycoon) (chestnut colt)
The first stakes winner (Intention) sired by his exciting young stallion has a similar pedigree to this colt in that he is line-bred to the wonderful mare Jesmond Lass (Lunchtime {GB}), the fifth dam of Bivouac and the dam of the great influence Canny Lad.
His lightly raced dam Siyaadeh (a smart Gawler maiden winner from just three outings) is a half-sister to the Listed-winning sprinter Adelong (Medaglia d'Oro {USA}) out of a daughter of the outstanding broodmare Snowdrift (Fr) (Polish Precedent {USA}).
Ten of that mare's 11 foals to race were winners, amongst that tally being the Group 1 galloper Snowland, the two-time Listed winner Snippetson and the dual Group 2 winner Portillo (Red Ransom {USA}) whose son Renosu (Exceed And Excel) is another stakes winner from this prolific speed family.
Lot 792 - Extreme Warrior x Yangarra Rose (Zoustar) (bay colt)
Hailing from the first crop of a fast son of the great Extreme Choice, he is the first foal for a city-placed two-time winner whose half-sister Vibrant Sun (The Autumn Sun) won last year's G1 Australasian Oaks.
Yangarra Rose's dam Vibrant Rouge (Written Tycoon) did a great job winning eight races including the G3 Vamos Stakes and another five city races and she is still young; last year served by Shinzo.
Lot 800 - Farnan x Zero To Hundred (So You Think {NZ}) (bay colt)
It is an interesting pedigree owned by this colt who is bred on a 3 X 3 cross of Redoute's Choice with his fourth dam being a full sister to that great stallion.
This is the outstanding Dancing Show (USA) (Nijinsky {Can}) branch of the internationally prolific Best In Show (USA) (Traffic Judge {USA}) family that has always fared so well down under.
A winner at her 2-year-old debut at Warwick Farm, Zero To Hundred (a $440,000 Easter yearling) only just missed out on the prize stepping up to Listed level at her second outing.
This colt is able to count amongst his close relations the Group 1 winners Gathering (Tale Of The Cat {USA}) and In Italian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}).
