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South African Group 1 winner for Redoute’s Choice

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ARROWFIELD RELEASE – 3YO colt Wylie Hall has crowned a Classic week for champion sire Redoute’s Choice with victory in Saturday’s R1.5 million South African Derby 2450m G1 at Turffontein.

Wylie Hall is the 23rd individual Group 1 winner by Redoute’s Choice, his 12th 3YO Classic winner and among his 19 worldwide stakeswinners this season.

Eight days ago Redoute’s Choice’s 3YO daughter Royal Descent won the ATC Australian Oaks G1 in brilliant fashion by 10 lengths at Randwick. Yesterday at Morphettville Arrowfield graduate Grand Daughter was a gallant runner-up in the SAJC Australasian Oaks G1.

Trained by Weiho Marwing for owner Michael Leaf, Wylie Hall earned serious Derby consideration when he swept home late to win the Nijinsky Derby Trial 2000m LR at Turffontein on 6 April. He prevailed in the Derby by a half-length from his stablemate Gothic, with the Derby Trial runner-up Wild One 1.25 lengths back in third place.

Success in the Derby takes Wylie Hall’s record to 3 wins and 3 placings from 6 starts, all since the beginning of December.

Wylie Hall was bred by John Kelly at the Kelly family’s celebrated farm Newhaven Park which offered him at the 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale. The purchaser at $205,000 was South African agent Andy Williams’ World Wide Bloodstock.

Wylie Hall is a half-brother to champion Hong Kong sprinter Absolute Champion, from an outstanding family that has also produced G1 Anamato and G3 Mearas to Redoute’s Choice, as well as G1 Dealer Principal (by Flying Spur) and multiple Group 1 winner Grand Armee.

Newhaven Park sold Beauty Belle’s colt by Encosta de Lago for $120,000 at this year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale to well-known Hong Kong buyer Apollo Ng. Beauty Belle foaled a colt by Redoute’s Choice’s half-brother Manhattan Rain last spring.

Wylie Hall is the second Group 1 winner by Redoute’s Choice from a mare by a grandson of Star Kingdom, after the 2005 Golden Slipper winner and leading young sire Stratum.

Redoute’s Choice is currently serving a first-class book of mares at HH The Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in France and will return to Arrowfield for the 2013 Australian breeding season, standing at a fee of $137,500 inc. GST.

Magnificent new Group 1 Classic winner for Redoute’s Choice

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ARROWFIELD RELEASE – “You don’t see Oaks won like that.”

So said one commentator after Royal Descent defeated a quality field of 3YO fillies in yesterday’s $550,000 ATC Australian Oaks to become the 22nd Group 1 winner, and the 11th 3YO Classic winner for her super sire Redoute’s Choice.

Defeat is too light a word for what Royal Descent inflicted upon the VRC Oaks, New Zealand Oaks & New Zealand Derby winners, and six other rivals, after Nash Rawiller sent her forward 500 metres from home. The strapping dark brown filly responded magnificently, leading at the 400-metre mark, and then powering on to a 10-length victory – the biggest winning margin in a Randwick Group 1 race since Might And Power’s 1998 Queen Elizabeth Stakes win.

It was Royal Descent’s fourth success in a seven-start career that began only four months ago, and took her earnings close to $560,000 – well past the $350,000 her breeder Gerry Harvey had asked for her at the 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale. Passed in at $340,000, she has not only justified his assessment of her worth, but also rewarded one of her sire’s most consistent supporters with a remarkable Group 1 ownership success.

Mr Harvey’s royal blue and white colours have also been worn this season by Redoute’s Choice’s son Sheer Talent, winner of the VRC C.S. Hayes S. G3 and third in the Australian Guineas G1, and by the Group-placed winners Chateau Margaux and Rose Pattern, while the Harvey-bred Cantonese has been successful at Listed level.

Royal Descent is the seventh and best foal of the very good Group 2-winning mare Mulan Princess (Kaapstad-Madam Valeta), a three-quarter sister to dual Group 1 winner Golden Sword. Group 3 winner Madam Valeta is also the dam of the top-class sprinter Falkirk, now at stud in New Zealand, and the Listed stakeswinner Luscilla whose recent foals include a 2012 colt by Snitzel.

Royal Descent has an unraced, year-younger sister named Chateau Lafaite, and a weanling half-brother by Big Brown.

The combination of Redoute’s Choice with mares by sons of the great Sir Tristram has now produced 17 stakeswinners from 98 runners, four of them Group 1 winners (Samantha Miss, Melito, Allez Wonder and Royal Descent). Interestingly, the Oaks winner is one of only 7 named foals bred on the Redoute’s Choice/Kaapstad cross.

Royal Descent was the opening half of a very special double for trainer Chris Waller who also prepares the Doncaster Handicap G1 winner Sacred Falls – son of the Redoute’s Choice mare Iguazu’s Girl.

Redoute’s Choice leads the Australian 3YO Sires’ list by stakeswinners with a tally of nine, and is the youngest sire among the top 10 on the Broodmare Sires’ table. His lifetime tally of stakeswinners stands at 105, 19 of them successful in five countries this season.

Currently serving a stellar book of mares at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in France, Redoute’s Choice will be available to Australasian breeders this spring at a fee of $137,500 inc. GST.

 

Another stakes trio for Redoute’s Choice

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ARROWFIELD RELEASE – Three days after Redoute’s Choice topped the Inglis Easter Sale sire averages for the ninth time, a trio of stakes-winning 3YOs demonstrated why his progeny are in such demand.

On Black Caviar day at Royal Randwick, Gerry Harvey‘s home-bred filly Royal Descent (ex Mulan Princess by Kaapstad) proved too strong for her rivals in the ATC Adrian Knox S. 2000m G3.

She is the third consecutive Arrowfield-sired winner of the race following Crafty Irna (by Starcraft) in 2011, and Full of Spirit (by Flying Spur) in 2012.

Redoute’s Choice also had a hand in the placegetters, Arrowfield graduate Express Power and Unimpeachable, by his sons Snitzel and Bradbury’s Luck.

Royal Descent has progressed quickly since her debut win at Canterbury on 21 December and trainer Chris Waller indicated that a start in the Australian Oaks G1 next Saturday would now be considered for her.

The striking dark brown filly is the first stakeswinner left by Group 2 winner Mulan Princess, a half-sister to multiple Group winner & sire Falkirk. This is the high quality family of dual Group 1 winner Golden Sword, developed over many years in New Zealand by the partnership of Windsor Park Stud and private breeder Alan Burnet.

At Morphettville 3YO colt High Esteem (ex Park Esteem by Singspiel) led all the way in the Port Adelaide Guineas 1800m LR, his fourth win from 9 starts. Bellerive graduate Road Trippin’ (by Charge Forward) was a length away in second place.

High Esteem is trained by Peter Moody for a partnership including his breeder Cressfield, which sold him for $850,000 at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Sale, and Black Caviar’s part-owner Neil Werrett.

High Esteem’s 2YO full brother Great Esteem has shown promise with his second-start third placing in last month’s VRC Sires’ Produce S. G2. Their dam Park Esteem, a stakes-placed three-quarter sister to Group 1 winners Central Park and Moon Ballad, has since foaled fillies by Fastnet Rock and Redoute’s Choice.

Also in Adelaide, Jonathan Munz‘s homebred filly Global Balance (ex Balance of Nature by Storm Cat) added the SAJC Auraria S. 1800m G3 to her Tasmanian Oaks LR win with a determined effort that caught Maybe Discreet just before the finish-line. Global Balance, who is trained by David Hayes, has now won three of her six starts and almost $150,000 prizemoney.

Royal Descent and High Esteem take their champion sire’s lifetime record of stakeswinners to 105 – an outstanding 12% of all his runners. Nineteen of those stakeswinners have been successful this season, and 14 of them are from Redoute’s Choice’s 2009 crop. He is currently second on the Australian 3YO Sires’ list with prizemoney of $3.3 million.

Redoute’s Choice trio to take on All Too Hard in Guineas

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Three sons of Arrowfield’s champion stallion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill – Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) will do battle with brilliant colt All Too Hard (Casino Prince – Helsinge, by Desert Sun) in Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington.

Miss Finland (Redoute’s Choice – Forest Pearl, by Woodman) won the Australian Guineas for the stallion in 2007 but oddly, Redoute’s Choice has only had two other representatives in the three-year-old showpiece.

God’s Own (Redoute’s Choice – Angel In Disguise, by Sky Chase) and Dr Doute’s (Redoute’s Choice – No Limit, by Dr Grace) were both unplaced in the Australian Guineas in 2006 and 2009 respectively.

Redoute’s Choice’s 2013 representatives are at big odds but Albrecht (Redoute’s Choice – O’giselle, by Octagonal), Sheer Talent (Redoute’s Choice – St Katherine, by Barathea) and High Esteem (Redoute’s Choice – Park Esteem, by Singspiel) all have solid place chances.

All Too Hard is the one to beat in the Australian Guineas after two exciting wins over older horses in the CF Orr Stakes and Futurity Stakes to be a long odds-on favourite of claiming the Caulfield Guineas / Australian Guineas double.

Below is the field for Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington.

No Horse Trainer Jockey BR. Wgt. Sire
1 ALL TOO HARD Hawkes Racing Dwayne Dunn 14 56.5kg Casino Prince
2 ALBRECHT Peter Snowden Kerrin McEvoy 5 56.5kg Redoute’s Choice
3 HVASSTAN Peter Gelagotis Craig Newitt 11 56.5kg Fastnet Rock
4 PHILIPPI Michael Kent Brad Rawiller 6 56.5kg Host
5 SHEER TALENT Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 17 56.5kg Redoute’s Choice
6 GRAND EMPEROR Dean Howard Ryan Maloney 4 56.5kg Written Tycoon
7 RED INCA Ray Besanko Peter Mertens 12 56.5kg Stratum
8 SUBIASO Robbie Laing Noel Callow 3 56.5kg Testa Rossa
9 FORCE COMMAND Greg Eurell Brent Evans 15 56.5kg Commands
10 BASS STRAIT (NZ) David Hayes Chad Schofield (a) 2 56.5kg Holy Roman Emperor
11 HOSTING Greg Eurell Chris Symons 16 56.5kg Host
12 AJEEB (NZ) Mick Price Glen Boss 9 56.5kg Al Maher
13 FERLAX (NZ) Jim Conlan Stephen Baster 8 56.5kg Pentire
14 HIGH ESTEEM Peter G Moody Luke Nolen 7 56.5kg Redoute’s Choice
15 HIGH SHOT (NZ) Michael Kent Craig Williams 1 56.5kg High Chaparral
16 YOU’RE SO GOOD (NZ) Nigel Blackiston Vlad Duric 10 54.5kg Savabeel
17e PRAKTICALITY Troy Portelli Dean Yendall 13 56.5kg Rakti

 

Arrowfield celebrates Redoute’s Choice’s century

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ARROWFIELD RELEASE – Arrowfield’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice has joined an elite group of Australasian super sires with his 100th stakes winner.

That honour was achieved by four-year-old mare She’s Clean (Redoute’s Choice – Feather Duster, by End Sweep) with a determined victory in the Listed ATC Triscay Stakes (1200m) at Warwick Farm. It was also her trainer Chris Waller’s 100 metropolitan success this season.

Bred by the joint venture of Arrowfield Stud and long-time client and friend John Leaver, She’s Clean was purchased for $300,000 by Ingham Racing from the Arrowfield draft at the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Sale.

Her dam, Feather Duster (End Sweep – Keltshaan, by Pleasant Colony ) is a stakes-placed half-sister to Kinshasa No Kiseki, Japan’s Champion Sprinter-Miler in 2010, from the family of French Group 1 winners Groom Dancer, Plumania & Falco.

Feather Duster has a yearling filly by Flying Spur that will be offered by Arrowfield at the upcoming Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, and a 2012 filly by Not A Single Doubt.

She’s Clean, now the winner of six of her 14 starts and $307,870, is Redoute’s Choice’s ninth Australian stakeswinner, and 14th worldwide, this season.

Arrowfield will offer a filly bred on the same Redoute’s Choice/End Sweep cross at the Inglis Australian Easter Sale – she’s Lot 58, from the Group 1 winner Clean Sweep.

Redoute’s Choice joins his own sire, the great Danehill (176 SW) and the father-and-son pair of Sir Tristram (129) & Zabeel (143) as the only four stallions in history to sire 100 or more worldwide stakes winners from Australasian-conceived foals. Together, they have dominated Australasian racing and breeding for the past three decades.

The milestone comes 3,494 days into Redoute’s Choice’s stud career – only 63 days longer than it took Danehill to achieve the same mark in 2002. Also like his sire, Redoute’s Choice has reached 100 stakes winners at the age of 16.

Sir Tristram’s 100th stakes winner came up in July 2003 when he was 17 years-old, while Zabeel reached his century at the age of 19, in April 2006.

Arrowfield’s chairman John Messara, who watched She’s Clean’s victory with great excitement at Caulfield, says, “I am so proud of Redoute’s Choice, it is a magnificent achievement to reach his century of stakes winners and to join such an exclusive group of champion stallions.

“I congratulate the Ingham family, Chris Waller and Jim Cassidy on creating this piece of history with She’s Clean and thank everyone who has been part of Redoute’s Choice’s success over the past decade.

“In particular, I acknowledge the loyal support of Muzaffar Yaseen, the breeder and majority owner of Redoute’s Choice, and everyone who has bred, bought and trained his progeny.

“I also thank Arrowfield’s past and present staff who have done such an outstanding job of caring for and managing every aspect of his stud career, especially our Operations Manager Sam Fairgray, who arrived at Arrowfield only a few months before Redoute’s Choice in 2000.

Mr Messara adds, “This is a wonderful milestone to celebrate, but the future for Redoute’s Choice is even more exciting as he enters a new phase of his career, standing his first season in Europe.”

Redoute’s Choice has just begun serving a superlative book of mares at HH The Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in France.

99 Stakes winners for Redoute’s Choice

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ARROWFIELD RELEASE – Global Balance is a particularly apt name for the 3YO filly that has brought up a lifetime tally of 99 stakeswinners for the currently French-based champion Australian sire Redoute’s Choice.

Global Balance won this evening’s $100,000 TTC Tasmanian Oaks 2100m LR for her owner-breeder Jonathan Munz, also responsible for earlier Redoute’s Choice stakeswinners Sharkbite (No. 37), Rekindled Interest (No. 67) and Mama’s Choice (No. 81).

Pictured: Global Balance with her dam, the beautifully bred Balance of Nature, at Bellerive Stud in the spring of 2009. (PHOTO: Bellerive Stud)

Apt too, that this latest stakeswinner is trained by David Hayes, whose marvellous success with the champion sire’s progeny began with Group 1 winners Miss Finland, Anamato and Nadeem, and has continued this season thanks to 3YOs Alzora, Rawnaq, Maraatib and now the dark brown daughter of Balance of Nature.

Global Balance was well-positioned at Mowbray, where she settled nicely on the fence, just behind the leaders in a slowly run race. She was driven into space by jockey Stephen Baster on the home turn to join battle with the resolute First Bloom. The pair prevailed in a high-pressure finish to score by a half-head, and then had to survive a protest before the result was confirmed.

The Tasmanian Oaks is Global Balance’s second win from five starts, following her maiden win last month and a solid fifth in the TRC Strutt S. LR won by Flying Spur’s daughter Green Roller 10 days ago.

Global Balance’s pedigree is a case study in breeding back to the female family of a dominant stallion. Her dam Balance of Nature, a Storm Cat half-sister to champion miler & leading sire Spinning World, was imported from Great Britain by Jonathan Munz’ GSA Bloodstock in 2008 and has produced two fillies to Redoute’s Choice: Global Balance and a 2012 foal.

Balance of Nature and Redoute’s Choice share their fourth dam, champion US broodmare Best In Show, through her two Sir Ivor daughters Minnie Hauk (foaled in 1975) and Show Lady (1976). A similar pattern can be seen in the pedigree of Rekindled Interest and his Group 2-placed brother Rekindled Alliance, showing tail-female descent from Best In Show’s half-sister Stolen Date.

Redoute’s Choice now has 13 stakeswinners worldwide this season, and Global Balance is the 10th stakeswinner from his 2009 crop.

Next month’s Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale includes two colts by Redoute’s Choice and one of them, from the Zabeel mare Quibble, is offered by Bellerive Stud which foaled and reared Global Balance.

A stunning consignment of 34 Redoute’s Choice yearlings will be offered at the Inglis Australian Easter Sale in April, among them a three-quarter brother to Rekindled Interest in the Bellerive draft, and Gilgai Farm’s much-awaited half-brother to world champion sprinter Black Caviar, in the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds.

Redoute’s Choice on top on day three at Gold Coast

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MAGIC MILLIONS RELEASE – A stunning colt by Redoute’s Choice has topped the third session of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

The first foal of Group 1 winner Apercu, the colt attracted two bids, but that was enough to see the prized lot from Newgate Farm sell for $800,000.

Leading Sydney trainer John O’Shea was the successful bidder and he was delighted with the latest addition to his stable.

“He’s the best Redoute’s Choice (yearling) I have seen in a long time,” O’Shea said. “The best since Fast ‘n’ Famous.”

“He is a very nice colt.”

Bloodstock agent James Harron secured the Lonhro-Cirque du Soleil filly from Evergreen Stud for long-time client Dr Edmund Bateman when he went to $675,000 to buy the prized filly.

“She is a magnificent filly and very, very athletic,” Harron said. “She has a fantastic pedigree to go with it.”

“We rated her as the best filly of the sale. I loved her and to have the pedigree to go with her looks is a bonus.”

Another highlight of the day was when James Bester secured the Redoute’s Choice-Daralara colt from the draft of Arrowfield Stud for $575,000.

“He is as nice a Redoute’s Choice colt as I’ve seen,” Bester said. “He has a wonderful action and extends beautifully in front.”

“He has the class to be a Guineas and Derby horse from a great Aga Khan family.”

Bester said David Hayes would train the colt.

Redoute’s Choice to serve unbeaten Arc winner

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Arrowfield Stud marvel Redoute’s Choice (Danehill – Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has arrived safely in France where he will serve an outstanding book of mares, headed by undefeated superstar Zarkava (Zamindar – Zarkasha).

The dual Australian Champion sire is shuttling for the first time and he will be standing the Northern Hemisphere season at the Aga Khan’s French stud Haras de Bonneval.

Redoute’s Choice is due to cover a limited book of 100 mares. The Aga Khan Studs will send a selection of fifteen elite broodmares (see the full list below), headed by the unbeaten Arc winner Zarkava.

She will be joined by last year’s Group 1 winners Shareta and Sagawara. Other notable Aga Khan mares include the young Group 1 winning mares Rosanara and Daryakana.

To date, Redoute’s Choice has sired 21 Group 1 winners, 97 Stakes winners and currently boasts exceptional lifetime statistics of 75.6% winners to runners and 11.5% Stakes winners to runners.

- Zarkava (Zamindar ex Zarkasha): Champion filly, unbeaten winner of five Group 1s

- Shareta (Sinndar ex Shawara): winner of the Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks and Gr.1 Prix Vermeille in 2012, her dam is a half sister to dual Group 1 winner Shawanda (Sinndar)

- Sagawara (Shamardal ex Sagalina) : winner of the Gr.1 Prix Saint-Alary in 2012, out of a full sister to Arc winner Sagamix and closely related to leading young sire Sageburg

- Rosanara (Sinndar ex Rosawa) : winner of the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac at two and 2nd in the Gr.1 Prix de Diane at three

- Daryakana (Selkirk ex Daryaba): winner of the Gr.1 Hong Kong Vase, she is a daughter of the Prix de Diane and Prix Vermeille winner Daryaba

- Shalamantika (Nashwan ex Sharamana): dam of the Group 1 winner Shalanaya and Group 2 winner Shankardeh

- Vadaza (Zafonic ex Vadlamixa): dam of Group 1 winner Vadawina, and dual Group 3 winner Vadapolina

- Asharna (Darhsaan ex Ashtarka): dam of three Group performers, including Group 1 placed Ashiyla

- Katiyra (Peintre Celebre ex Katiykha): a Group 2 winner and placed third in the Oaks

- Ashalanda (Linamix ex Ashaninka): a dual Group 2 winner

- Shamakiya (Intikhab ex Shamadara): a Gr.2 placed half sister to Gr.1 winner Shamdala

- Shemima (Dalakhani ex Shemaka): a dual Gr.3 winner, she is a daughter of Prix de Diane winner Shemaka

- Tanoura (Dalakhani ex Takarouna): Group 2 placed, daughter of a Pretty Polly Stakes winner and sister to four Stakes performers.

- Sharesha (Ashkalani ex Sharemata): the dam of three Group performers and a close relative to Derby winner Shahrastani

- Kerasona (Oasis Dream ex Kerasha): a Listed winner in 2012, she is a half sister to juvenile Gr.3 winner Keratiya

 

Redoute’s Choice with VRC Oaks strength in numbers

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Trainers have nominated five daughters of star Arrowfield Stud stallion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill – Shantha’s Choice, by Canny) for the upcoming Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington.

Redoute’s Choice sired the winners of the 2006 and 2008 VRC Oaks with Miss Finland (Redoute’s Choice – Forest Pearl, by Woodman) and Samantha Miss (Redoute’s Choice – Milliyet, by Zabeel).

Mosheen won the VRC Oaks for Fastnet Rock (Danehill – Sumehra, by Stravinsky) last year. The reigning Australian Champion Sire has six fillies among the 74 three-year-olds nominated for the $1 million event.

Commanding Jewel (Commands – Regard, by Zabeel), the three-quarter sister to last year’s pre-post favourite Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock – Regard, by Zabeel), was an absentee from the Oaks entries.

Atlantic Jewel’s seven-length romp in the Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) ensured she was an odds-on favourite for the 2011 VRC Oaks but missed the race through injury.

Click here for the 2012 VRC Oaks entries.

 

Smart debut for Redoute’s Choice colt at Cranbourne

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The Mick Price stable produced a well-related son of Redoute’s Choice (Danehill – Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) when the smart colt Lankan Rupee (Redoute’s Choice – Estelle Collection, by Stravinsky) scored on debut at Cranbourne.

Lankan Rupee carried the colours of his breeder Teeley Assets to victory in the Highview Accounting Maiden Plate (1000m). Redoute’s Choice also carries Teeley Assets’s silks to victory in his brilliant career, which yielded four Group 1 wins.

Lankan Rupee settled outside the speed before assuming control of the $17,500 race early in the straight. The first foal of the Group 3 winner Estelle Collection (Stravinsky – Ana Zeel, by Zabeel) asserted his dominance late to win by three-quarters of a length.

Price said he had high hopes for Lankan Rupee for the rest of his campaign, which he expected to take in a Stakes win during the spring.

“I think there are good areas of improvement in him,” Price told TVN. “We probably just need to keep him to the shorter journeys but he’s well bred, he’s a nice colt and I think he’ll nearly go black type.

“The spring is in front of us at the moment and we just had to get over today first but I think he’ll eventually get black type.”