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Classic Sale starts well

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The 2012 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale  got off to a solid start at Newmarket on Sunday, with two lots sharing top price of $100,000. 110 lots sold during the session, grossing $3.49 million with 79% of the yearlings offered sold at an average of $31,770 and median of $27,500.

The two $100,000 transactions took place within five lots, firstly by Middlebrook Valley Lodge’s Fastnet Rock filly from Polite and then Bowness Stud’s Beautiful Crown (USA) colt from Pretty Special.

The Beautiful Crown-Pretty Special colt (Lot 47) received a timely update just a few weeks ago when his half-brother Kontiki Park scored in the Listed BRC Bernborough Handicap and then again just over a week ago when winning the Magic Millions Stayers Cup at the Gold Coast and this colt will be trained by Kontiki Park’s trainer ¬†Gai Waterhouse after being sold to Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds.

Lot 47 Beautiful Crown - Pretty Special colt

Lot 47 Beautiful Crown - Pretty Special colt

The Fastnet Rock-Polite filly (Lot 43) will head into the stables of Secret Admirer’s trainer Grahame Begg after being knocked down to Topline Thoroughbreds.

The filly is the first foal of the imported mare Polite, a daughter of Elusive Quality with the third-dam of this filly the influential Fanfreluche, whose descendants include champion sires Encosta de Lago and Flying Spur.

“Today’s figures are slightly down on those recorded for this session twelve months ago, but I do congratulate our vendors for meeting the current market”, said Inglis Managing Director Mark Webster.

Day One Statistics

(2011 in brackets)

Lots Catalogued: 150 (150)

Gross: $3,494,727 ($3,608,000)

Average Price: $31,770 ($34,692)

Median Price: $27,500 ($30,000)

Top Price: $100,000 ($95,000)

Lots Sold: 110 (104)

Lots Withdrawn: 10 (17)

Lots Passed In: 30 (29)

Sold %: 79 (78)

Coureuse wears the Crown

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Patinack Farm’s new state-of-the art complex at Canungra paid instant dividends with the victory of Crown Of Coureuse (2 f Beautiful Crown – Coureuse, by Tierce) in Saturday evening’s $75,000 Fitton Insurance Hopeful Plate (1000m) at Toowoomba’s Clifford Park, the first juvenile race of the new season.

Crown Of Coureuse came with a big finish in the straight to overwhelm race-favourite Canningly to win going away by a widening three and a quarter lengths in a performance that hints at more to come.

Stable foreman Chris Hull said head trainer John Thompson has the facilities at their base at southeast Queensland to trial their own horses.¬†‚ÄúWe can trial at our place which is great,‚Äù he said, adding that her preparation at Canungra gave a good indication of what she could do.”

“She’s a very sensible filly. She was only beaten by a length and a half in the trial in Toowoomba last week, and she learned from the experience.”

Beautiful Crown (USA) stand at Patinack Farm in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales at $16,500 (inc GST) in 2011.

Hunter Valley open day reviews

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Patinack Farm

Patinack Farm held their stallion parade on Friday night at their Sandy Hollow stallion property. Held under lights and with Moroccan themed cuisine keeping guests fed and warm, the thinking outside the square approach was a great success and is sure to be copied in future.

The New South Wales based stallions Beautiful Crown, Casino Prince, Husson, new boy Lope de Vega, Murtajill and Raheeb were paraded in great order. All are eligible for the Patinack bonus scheme with the exception of Beautiful Crown.

Vinery

Vinery

Vinery

Vinery Stud held parades on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The Saturday parade was held under overcast skies with the rain somehow kept at bay. There was a real buzz to the parade with such an outstanding selection of stallions. Peter Orton welcomed guests and commented on the need to keep the Valley free from the double threat of more coal mining and the new mining option Coal Seam Gas, before handing over to Adam White who took us through the parade in knowledgeable style.

Big Brown impressed, the Kentucky Derby winner looking every inch a super horse. The established stars More Than Ready, Testa Rossa and Mossman all have proven themselves and the up and comers like Benicio, Dubleo and Excites give real balance to the roster. Apart from Big Brown and Onemorenomore who are both in their second year at Vinery Australia, more recent additions to the team include: Congrats, the Champion First Season Sire in the US; and Prix Morny winner Myboycharlie.

Our thanks to Vinery for an excellent parade and a fine breakfast!

Arrowfield

It was then a short drive up the road to Arrowfield following the completion of the Vinery parade and here we were welcomed by Arrowfield principal John Messara. John reiterated Peter Orton’s message about land use and mining, and welcomed a special guest in local parliamentarian and Racing and Tourism Minister, George Souris.

Handing over to commentator Susan Archer, and roving interviewer Jon Freyer, the parade went like clockwork. The threat of rain was heavy in the air, but miraculously, and again, all managed to stay dry.

Beneteau was introduced as the new boy on the roster and he is truly a handsome individual. Those who have seen him at the track can attest to that. Not A Single Doubt looked physically awesome and an interesting interview by Jon Freyer with Andrew Reichard showed up some interesting statistics on his early season runners and how he was identified very early as potentially a top stallion. And that has happened.

All American has returned from his stint at Darby Dan Farm in the US and he is the first stallion to do the “reverse” shuttle from Australia to America.

Arrowfield

Arrowfield

On a roster which also includes Flying Spur, Manhattan Rain and Starcraft, as well as the separately housed Charge Forward (the alpha male scenario has been explained many times but Charge Forward does not abide the company of other stallions, so he lives up the road at Bellerive), the last to parade was the champion stallion Redoute’s Choice who once again has had another stellar year with 2010/11 stakes winners including Absolutely and King’s Rose wining Group 1’s, Melito and Rekindled Interest winning Group 2’s and Drumbeats, Sister Madly and Zingaling winning Group 3’s.

Great roster, wonderful hospitality.