Indeed, HANSEATIC became the first 2yo since Champion juvenile RANCHER to clean sweep the Merson Cooper Stakes (L), Blue Diamond Preview (L) & Blue Diamond Prelude (Gr3) before bad luck prevented him from winning the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes running a fast-finishing 2nd. He was the boom colt this time last year and deservedly so – a 2yo with very obvious Group One ability.
A Group One winner of five races in Australia, New Zealand, France and the United Kingdom, Starcraft (NZ) is a stallion that oozes class, not only on the track, but in the breeding barn.
The Rise & Rise of Shamus Award has been nothing short of phenomenal these past 18 months with Four new Group One Winners and an impressive 400% increase in yearling average since 2020.
He sits comfortably in the Top 5 of the Australian Sires Premiership – and clearly the youngest of this leading group – with almost $14m in progeny earnings this season to date.
A Champion Australian Sire in waiting…
A $500,000 Inglis Easter Yearling, Nostradamus was highlighted early on as the star from the first southern hemisphere crop of his sire Medaglia d’Oro.
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