A colt by Hussonet (USA) topped the 2012 Inglis Classic Sale at $140,000 when sold to Mauro Poletti on Tuesday. Offered by Arrowfield Stud the colt is a brother to stakes-placed Red Dress Marley and a half-brother to this season’s stakes-placed two-year-old Snitzerland, a colt by Snitzel.

Hussonet - Monte Rosa colt

Other highlights on Tuesday were provided by a Dubawi (Ire) filly from Greta’s Yarn that made $105,000 for Emirates Park when secured by Inglis as agent, NZ and a Charge Forward colt from Lady of Choice that made the same amount for Huntworth Stud when purchased by Victorian trainer  Robbie Laing.

Matthew Smith selected this seasons Gr1 VRC Myer Classic winner Hurtle Myrtle from the first crop of Dane Shadow at the 2009 Classic Sale for $55,000 and the Warwick Farm trainer was back at Newmarket yesterday purchasing fillies from the first crop of Astronomer Royal (Lot 471) and Myboycharlie (Lot 525) for $65,000 and $56,000 respectively.

Anthony Cummings has had much success buying from Classic, such as Inglis Banner & Inglis Nursery winner Diamond Earth, and the Randwick conditioner picked up her close relation from the draft of Golden Grove for $62,000 today a colt by Danehill Dancer from La Madeline (Lot 485) .

The final sale figures are down on 2011. The aggregate for the 424 lots that sold totalled $12,804,727, down on the $13,342,000 in 2011 with the average price of $30,200 down 10% on 2011’s $33,509. The sale median finished at $24,000 compared to $25,000 in 2011.

Cornerstone Stud stallion Hussonet (USA) has been enjoying a purple patch of late and he posted a new Stakes winner to his resume on Saturday when At The Heads (5 h Hussonet - The Quarewan, by Supremo) snapped a 12-month losing streak to win the Listed $150,000 Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

At The Heads was prominent all the way and he was ridden to the front early in the straight by James Winks, staying on too well for the 3yo Pied A Terre (Ad Valorem) to score by 1 3/4 lengths with Second Effort (Mossman) in third.

“He gave me a lovely ride. He just idled nicely and when he got to the front he switched off and wanted to wander around a bit but when they came at him he hit the line well,” Winks said. ”Danny told me the horse needed the right run in order to win a race like this and it all panned out well.”

At The Heads, whose previous win was over 1400m at Caulfield just over a year ago, has now won five races and been placed in six others for more than $305,725 in stakemoney.

The win also rekindled the partnership between Winks and trainer Danny O’Brien. ”I had six weeks off after the spring two years ago and I’ve probably struggled the last 12 months, but I’m just starting to gather momentum again,” Winks said. ”I’m back riding for Danny now and have ridden about four winners since I’ve been back.”

“There’s 120 more horses I can ride now that I’m back with him and he’s got quality animals like At The Heads.”

Chilean-bred sire Host (Hussonet - Colonna Traiana, by Roy) became the third son of Hussonet (Mr Prospector - Sacahuista, by Raja Baba) to produce his first winner at Thursday’s Ballarat meeting.

Flying Hostess’s (Host - Ardent Command, by Commands) win in the Dowling Forest Equine Maiden (1000m) allowed Host to join Husson (Hussonet - Villa Elisa, by Roy) and Husson Lightning (Hussonet - Snip Snip, by Snippets) as winning first-season sires.

Flying Hostess showed her potential with her debut placing at Sandown last month. The filly found the front before pulling out enough to win the $15,000 race comfortably.

“She’s been a professional filly from the day we put her in work,” Weir said. “She was strong on the line and there’s plenty of upside to her.

 ”We were going to back her up at Caulfield last week but I decided to take the easier option and let her win one at home.

“I’ll see how she pulls up before making a decision on whether to tip her out or keep going for a stakes race at Adelaide.”

The Swettenham Stud resident Host will has two colts and two fillies catalogued at the 2012 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne.

“It’s very encouraging to see the sireline taking off in Australia,” Swettenham Stud owner Adam Sangster said.

“We’ve been getting very positive reports from trainers with Host two year-olds and that augurs well for his second crop coming up at the yearling sales.”

Good Baby (4 g Hussonet - Secret Haze, by Danehill) registered a barnstorming win in Monday’s 2011 Gr 3 Magic Millions Malaysian Classic (1200m) at Penang in Malaysia.

Good Baby is building up an imposing record for his connections - now having won five of his ten lifetime starts. Purchased by the Blue Sky Thoroughbreds operation for $110,000 from the draft of Swettenham Stud at the 2008 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale, Good Baby is now trained by Kevin Coetzee and is raced by Richard Beh’s Golden Knight Stable.

“It was fitting that Mr Beh should win our rich race - he is the biggest Malaysian buyer we have and he’s been buying from Magic Millions for well over 10 years.” Magic Millions’ David Chester reports.

Good Baby was educated in Australia and trialled three times in the WA capital before being shipped to Asian last year. He won his first two starts in Malaysia and has since built up an impressive record of five wins and three runner up places from just 10 runs.

He has already earned the equivalent of A$240,000 and looks to have an extremely bright future ahead. His sire Hussonet stands at Cornerstone Stud in South Australia.

Happy Hussy (3 f Hussonet - Morinda, by Desert King) broke her Maiden in facile style at Canterbury Park on Wednesday, clearing away in the straight to win the $27,000 Styletread.com.au Handicap (1200m) for 3yo fillies by four lengths.

Taking advantage of apprentice Chad Schofield’s three-kilogram claim, happy Hussy was well placed before the tiurn in and she ran on strongly to score over Our Girl Charlize (Stratum).

“This filly has been very well for a couple of weeks now and her work was sensational back at home and we were very happy with her,” said Stuart Rankin, foreman for Rosehill trainer David Payne. “The tactics were to have her up there and she had a very light weight on her back and it was a great win. She won pretty easily.

“She has learnt how to race now and she has got stronger as she learns how to race, and I think she will go from here. She had been working well up to the race and I was pretty confident before the race as well,” said Schofield.

Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller trialled more than $1 million worth of bloodstock at Tuesday’s set of heats held at Rosehill.

Waller’s charges took out seven of the dozen heats contested on Tuesday morning, including two of the three two-year-old trials with a pair of Ingham Racing-owned colts.

Fundido (Lonhro - Red Fever, by Red Ransom) posted an outstanding eight-length win in the third heat of the morning in the time of 53.98 seconds for the 900 metres.

Fundido was a $70,000 purchase at the 2011 Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale from the same family as the juvenile stakes winners Way West (Danehill - Prospect Fever, by Mr Prospector) and Jumlah (Catbird - Marlow Waters, by Marauding)

Fob Dubai (Charge Forward - Barsha, by Redoute’s Choice) cost Ingham Racing $150,000 at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. Fob Dubai showed he would go a long way to recouping his owners’ investment with a 2.8-length success in the fifth heat of the morning.

The colt’s stablemate Rastro (Mossman - Raise A Dane, by Danehill), a $120,000 2011  Gold Coast Magic Millions sale purchase, worked home nicely to finish second in the heat.

Access Code (Pins - Lilakyn, by Danehill) cost Ingham Racing $260,000 at the Inglis Easter sale. The three-year-old got home narrowly to claim the 11^th heat of the day. The $600,000 yearling purchase Valhussle (Hussonet - Ribe, by Danehill) finished fifth in the sixth trial as he prepared for his return to the track.

First season Patinack Farm sire Husson (Hussonet - Villa Elisa, by Roy) has wasted no time making an impression in Australia after Hussousa (Husson - Petousa, by Redoute’s Choice) claimed Sydney’s first two-year-old race of the season, the Listed Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) at Randwick.

Hussousa raced close to the speed before the grey filly showed impressive acceleration to score a 1-1/2 length win over the Snippetson (Snippets - Snowdrift, by Polish Precedent) filly Snipzu (Snippetson - Pilgrim, by Danehill).

Patinack Farm trainer John Thompson said the filly would probably head to the spelling paddock for a break before returning for a shot at the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m). Patinack Farm sponsors Victoria’s richest two-year-old race.

Thompson said Hussousa’s win was a sign of a new training approach for the plethora of juveniles Patinack Farm will send to the races this season.

“I think the Boss (Nathan Tinkler) will be happy with the first runner for us by Husson and to get a win,” Thompson said. I am very happy with the team, as they have done a super job.

“We had trained them (two-year-olds) for the trials last year and none went to the races and went any good, and we had burned them out. This year we left a bit in the tank and they have gone on from the trials and this was the result.”

Husson stands for a service fee of $22,000 (inc GST).

Hussonet (Mr Prospector - Sacahuista, by Raja Baba) enjoyed great success at the start of his first breeding season at Cornerstone Stud with a winning treble on Friday.

Hussonet began his duties at the South Australian stud on Friday after eight seasons as part of the powerful Arrowfield Stud roster in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales.

The John O’Shea stable produced Hussonet’s first win of the day when Perfect Hussey (Hussonet - Perfect Zero, by Danzero) charged along the inside fence to win the Guardian Safety Solutions Maiden (1200m) at Wyong.

Gladiator (Hussonet - Flying Single, by Flying Spur) became Hussonet’s second win of the day after the gelding claimed the Siren Bar Gungahlin Handicap (1080m) at the Canberra Acton track before three-year-old colt Bangalore Bullet (Hussonet - San Century, by Centaine) took out the Spring Has Sprung Sprint (1200m) at Timaru in New Zealand.

Hussonet’s treble of successes took his win tally to 12 for the season. Half of Hussonet’s dozen winners have come from Danehill line mares.

Hussonet will stand for $25,000 (inc GST) during the 2011 breeding season.

Arrowfield Stud sires Flying Spur (Danehill - Rolls, by Mr Prospector) and Charge Forward (Red Ransom - Sydney’s Dream, by Bletchingly) have each unearthed likely prospects at Wednesday’s Sandown Hillside and Canterbury meetings respectively.

The Bart Cummings-trained Sonic Blast (Charge Forward - Balmoral Belle, by Zabeel) shook off a disastrous debut run at Randwick on June 11. The colt finished strongly to win the TJ’s Champagne Bar Maiden Plate (1200m) at Canterbury.

Cummings paid $90,000 for the colt at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Hawkes Racing went to $220,000 at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Sale to secure Chivvy (Flying Spur - Negotiate, by Marauding),  the impressive debut winner of the Race-Tech 2YO Handicap (1000m).

Former Arrowfield stallion Hussonet (Mr Prospector - Sacahuista, by Raja Baba) also sired a two-year-old winner at Canterbury. The consistent youngster Mickelberg (Hussonet - Trail Of Gold, by Danewin) broke through for his first win in the Ascot Club 2YO Maiden (1200m).

A treble to Hussonet (Mr Prospector - Sacahuista, by Raja Baba) has provided the backbone to a five-win Sunday for Arrowfield Stud.

The stallion picked up winners in three states. Hussonet had winners at Casterton in Victoria, Nowra in New South Wales and at the Sunshine Coast Cushion track meeting in Queensland.

Riveted (Hussonet - Lace Wing, by Caerleon) provided Hussonet’s most lucrative success of the day. The Ciaron Maher-trained five-year-old scored a strong win in the $25,000 Casterton Cup (2000m).

The Kurt Goldman-trained Arms Length (Hussonet - Apart, by Rahy) took out the King horn Belle Of The South Handicap (1200m) at Nowra before Hussonator (Hussonet- Broenne, by Brocco) claimed the Bank Of Queensland Caloundra Handicap (1400m) at the Sunshine Coast.

Arrowfield enjoyed further success with Golden Slipper winner Danzero (Danehill - Confidentially, by Kaoru Star) providing the Hunter Valley operation with a two-country double. The Robert Smerdon-trained Marked Danger (Danzero - Shiny, by Forest Glow) won the Highview Accounting Services Maiden Plate (2025m) before Australian trainer David Hall produced Fastplus Master (Danzero - Tehama, by Centaine) to win the Quicken Away Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.

Multiple champion stallion Hussonet (Mr Prospector) will be relocated from Arrowfield to Lindsay Park Stud in South Australia in 2011 in what has been described by Sam hayes as ‘a great coup for the state’.

Arrowfield Chairman John Messara AM and Lindsay Park Stud Managing Director Sam Hayes have negotiated a deal that will see the record breaking sire spend the remainder of his career at the Barossa Valley stud.

“Standing a Champion stallion is a privilege that we will not take for granted and I am confident that breeders will not take it for granted either. This is a real coup.” Hayes said. “Given the books of mares he has covered in recent seasons there is substantial upside for breeders going to him in 2011 and beyond.”

The sire of more Group 1 winners (28) than any other active stallion in Australia today, Hussonet has produced 75 individual stakes winners with progeny earnings over $37 million worldwide. This season Hussonet has had 8 stakes performers including Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1) winner Eagle Falls as well as Caulfield Guineas and Thousand Guineas runners-up Run For Levi and Heartsareforlove.

Hussonet will stand at Lindsay Park Stud in 2011 alongside Good Journey, Reaan, Barely A Moment, De Beers and fellow newcomer Shrewd Rhythm. His fee has been set at $25,000 + GST.

Champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) will stand for $137,500 in 2011 after Arrowfield Stud announced its roster and service fees for the nine stallions it will stand. Redoute’s Choice was advertised at $176,000 in 2010 and headed the averages at last weeks Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.

The reduction in fee for 2011 is a case of ‘meeting of the market’ according to Arrowfield Chairman John Messara.

“These fees have been set after close analysis of the Easter Yearling Sale results, and the prevailing economic conditions. We believe that our 2011 fees accurately reflect market expectations and offer breeders excellent opportunities for profit.

“The strong performance of our proven and emerging stallions – collectively responsible for 43 stakeswinners this season – gives us real confidence in the future.”

Messara confirmed that Hussonet (USA) will stand at Lindsay Park Stud in South Australia this season. As Australia’s leading active sire of Group 1 winners, he presents a significant outcross opportunity for many broodmares.

“Hussonet has been a great success story for us and we are delighted to place him in young, enthusiastic hands for the next phase of his career.” Messara says.

Arrowfield stallions 2011

ALL AMERICAN $16,500* inc. GST

CHARGE FORWARD $33,000* inc. GST

DANZERO $11,000* inc. GST

FLYING SPUR $49,500* inc. GST

MANHATTAN RAIN $41,250* inc. GST

NOT A SINGLE DOUBT $24,750* inc. GST

REDOUTE’S CHOICE $137,500* inc. GST

SNITZEL $27,500* inc. GST

STARCRAFT (NZ) $44,000* inc. GST

*Free return – conditions apply

Redoute's Choice

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