There is no better advertisement for a stud than racetrack results and Amelia Park continues to be well represented by quality campaigners.
Well known as the breeders of the outstanding mare Amelia's Jewel (Siyouni {Fr}), who looks set for another outstanding campaign, Amelia Park has also nurtured the likes of the WA Magic Millions winner Samizdat (Not A Single Doubt), who was purchased for $325,000 by Gangemi Racing at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale in 2017.
Also a Group 3 and dual Listed winner, he is one of many talented gallopers sold by Amelia Park at this sale, others including the $50,000 filly She's Fit (Pride Of Dubai) who won the G3 WA Oaks and the Listed Natasha Stakes.
There are also a number of Amelia Park horses promising to do good things this year, such as the $75,000 purchase Buckets Ridge (Pride Of Dubai) who has won five of his 15 starts to date, including won two Listed races last year. There is also the promising 4-year-old Toropa (Toronado {Ire}), who has done so well winning five of his first nine starts.
Royal Toronado (Toronado) also boasts an excellent metropolitan record, whilst the 2-year-olds Capitola (Capitalist) and Girls On Fire (Better Than Ready) are showing plenty of potential; the former is a debut winner at Ascot and the latter placed at her first two starts, before finishing hot on the heels of the placegetters in the recent WA Magic Millions.
This year's draft is another strong one for Amelia Park...
Lot 97- Wild Ruler x My Maggie (colt)
A half-brother to the still in form six-time winner Tubthumper (Zoustar), this colt is out of a dual-winning full sister to the G3 Eclipse Stakes winner Vinnie Eagle (I Am Invincible), who also won three races in Hong Kong.
My Maggie's dam is a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Nashville (NZ) (Darci Brahma {NZ}), from the same family as the Group winners Fast Company (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), Barbajuan (Ire) (Danehill Dancer), Trudeau (Exceed And Excel), Faiza (Danehill {USA}), and Hawajiss (GB) (Kris {GB}), My Maggie's triple Group winning third dam.
An exciting young son of Snitzel, Wild Ruler had his first progeny well received at the Gold Coast where they sold for up to $320,000.
I Am Invincible is already doing the job as a broodmare sire and he is combining very well with Snitzel, with five of the first 67 winners with both great stallions in their pedigrees being stakes winners.
Lot 116 - Nicconi x Rosmartini (filly)
The winner of two of her three juvenile starts, Rosmartini (Proart) went on to an excellent career that saw her successful on another three occasions, taking out the Listed Belmont Oaks and the Listed Belmont Classic.
Showing heart and pace, leading throughout when taking out her consecutive stakes wins, Rosmartini has the right credentials to be a good broodmare and she has certainly made a good start with her first foal Marri Martini (Magnus) being a Belmont winner.
Rosmartini is one of the four winners (from as many foals to race) for the dual city winner Rosmopolitan (Verglas {Ire}), whose other stakes winner is the Listed Ascot 1000 Guineas winner Lonsdale Lady (Maschino).
This is a family which has been producing quality performers for generations; this filly able to claim amongst her relations the Group 1 gallopers Brewery Boy (Lorenzaccio {Ire}) and Lygon Arms (Bletchingly).
15 of the 16 Nicconi runners out of Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) line mares are winners and another exciting cross at work here is Nicconi/Jevington, one which provides for a cross of Biscay's dam Magic Symbol (Makarpura {GB}). All five of the horses bred this way are winners and two are stakes winners, including the G1 Winterbottom Stakes winner Graceful Girl (Nicconi).
Lot 161 - Blue Point (Ire) x Witchfulthinking (filly)
A $120,000 yearling at this same sale, Witchfulthinking (War Chant {USA}) was quickly into form, bolting in at her Victorian debut at two and going on to win another three races, including a 1300 metre contest at Sandown.
Witchfulthinking is a full sister to the city-placed stayer Rockeby Road (War Chant), out of a winning daughter of the speedy four-time stakes winner Street Talk (Marauding). whose five winners include the dams of the G1 South Australian Derby and G1 Australasia Oaks heroine Delicacy (Al Maher) and the Listed winning sprinter Profit Street (Viscount).
This is a family that can get quality horses of different types, such as another South Australian Derby winner in Bulta (High Regard), the stakes winning sprinter-milers Palladium Star (Palace Music {USA}) and Lord Of Camelot (Mighty Kingdom), and the particularly fast Tanjian Prince (Amyntor {Fr}).
Nine of the first 15 stakes winners sired by Blue Point (Ire) are out of mares carrying a Danehill (USA) strain, as does this filly who is also bred on the same Blue Point/Marauding cross as the Group 3 winning juvenile Icarian Dream (Blue Point).
Lot 166 - Dundeel (NZ) x Yu (filly)
The second and sadly final foal produced for the lightly raced Yu (Fastnet Rock), who showed ability with an easy Sunshine Coast maiden victory, this filly is bred on the emerging Dundeel (NZ)/Fastnet Rock cross.
From the cross's first 33 winners, five have been stakeswinners, including last year's G1 Spring Champion Stakes winner El Castello (Castelvecchio).
A $130,000 Easter yearling and a $180,000 purchase as a broodmare, Yu has as her first foal the promising Luke Fernie-trained Yuwill Be The One (Shalaa {Ire}), who has been thought highly enough of to be tested in stakes company.
Yu is one of the six winners produced by the unraced Azumi (Encosta de Lago), a three-quarter-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Alinghi (Encosta de Lago).
The spring's Listed winner Spicy Martini (Justify {USA}), who has looked good winning two of her first three starts, is also from this family as is the Group 1-placed, Group 3-winning juvenile Beneteau who fared well in a brief career at stud.
This filly's pedigree is an eye-catching one with her duplications of the wonderful mares Fairy Bridge (USA) (Bold Reason {USA}) and Special (USA) (Forli {Arg}).
Lot 175 - Pinatubo (Ire) x Amelia's Love (colt)
Amelia's Love (Blackfriars) was a lightly raced mare for Amelia Park, showing good talent when winning her first two starts in convincing fashion.
Doing a nice job at stud, Amelia's Love has had all three of her first foal win races, including the consistent six-time winning sprinter Jamaican Rumba (Shalaa {Ire}) and the impressive last start Belmont winner Petite Vitesse (Nicconi).
And there is more to come with her $340,000 son Usain Boss (Street Boss {USA}) jumping out well before racing greenly at his first two juvenile starts in stakes company for the Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald stable.
Amelia's Love is one of the eight winners (from nine foals to race) for the G3 Blue Diamond Prelude (f) winner Card Queen (Final Card), whose flashy and fast daughter Karuta Queen (Not A Single Doubt) won the R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic and the G3 Red Anchor Stakes.
Three of that classy mare's progeny have earned blacktype, including the Listed winner Eawase (Sebring), and this is also the family of the G1 Caulfield Guineas winner Vitalic.
Lot 330 - King's Legacy x Addie Lane (colt)
Bred on the outstanding Redoute's Choice/Street Cry (Ire) combination that has been so well represented by 16 Group 1 winners including Anamoe and Farnan, this colt is out of a lightly raced winner, whose dam is the G3 Mannerism Stakes winner Royal Sash (Royal Academy {USA}).
The winner of six of her 14 starts, Royal Sash did a fine job at stud with her six winners, including the triple Group winning sprinter Sabatini (Street Cry {Ire}), a full brother to Addie Lane.
Also dam of the G3 National Stakes winner Vivi Veloce (More Than Ready {USA}), Royal Sash is one of seven winners (from as many foals to race) for the stakes placed Flurry's Autumn (Southern Appeal {USA}).
This is the same branch of the prolific Gondolette (GB) (Loved One {GB}) family as the triple Group 1 winner Happy Trails (Good Journey {USA}), the G1 AJC Oaks heroine Valley Of Georgia (Century), and the Malaysian Group 1 winner Toluka (General Nediym).
Lot 338 - King's Legacy x Amelia's Contraire (filly)
Another nice member of her dual Group 1-winning sire's second crop, this filly is the second foal for the $200,000 Easter graduate Amelia's Contraire (Hinchinbrook) who won four races for Amelia Park, all at metropolitan level.
She is a half-sister to the G1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas winner Media Sensation (I Am Invincible) and to the promising 3-year-old On Display (Fastnet Rock), who looks set for a good preparation having recently won a Cranbourne jump-out for the Price & Kent Jnr stable.
Amelia's Contraire's dam is a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Dorabella (NZ) (Postponed {USA}) and the dual Listed winner (New Zealand and Singapore) Crusoe (NZ) (Volksraad {GB}), from the family of another New Zealand 1000 Guineas winner in Insouciant (NJZ) (Keeper).
This filly's sire is an exciting prospect for mares carrying a strain of Hinchinbrook's high-achieving dam sire Snippets, that stallion's dam Easy Date (Grand Chaudiere {Can}) being the fourth dam of King's Legacy.
And what an outstanding linebreeding force Easy Date has proven to be, with success stories including the big race winners Miracles Of Life (Not A Single Doubt), Invincible Sage (Thronum), and Espiona (Extreme Choice).
