Deeds will speak louder than marketing hype when the race for the 2018-19 first season stallion honours gets underway in late September.
Expectation and hope is building for both breeders and buyers with significant money, time and effort invested it will soon to be put the test to see which stallion is the new boom sire and which may wither away without achieving demanded success of an unforgiving marketplace.
Here is a snapshot of the New Sires by whom Dynamic Syndications purchased yearlings in 2018.
Deep Field Delighting Followers
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Newgate Farm’s Deep Field (by Northern Meteor) has been given every opportunity to shine with his big book of mares reflecting his pulling power with breeders.
Newgate General Manager Bruce Slade said. “In most people’s minds, Deep Field would probably be the favourite and we’ll have no excuses this time next year. All our stallions have been given every chance to succeed and we’re very excited about the future. He (Deep Field) served 617 mares in his first three seasons.”
The winner of five of his eight races, including the G2 Linlithgow Stakes, Deep Field stands at $22,000 inc GST. “He’s got 220 live foals from his first crop and I’m getting calls and texts every day to tell me how well they are going,” Slade said.
“He was an exceptionally fast horse and a track record breaker and his stock look precocious types. You’d have to think they will be showing plenty at two. Deep Field’s first crop sold up to $675,000.
Dynamic Syndications purchased a fabulous filly by Deep Field from Princess Marizza – a stakes winning mare. Our filly’s first 3 Dams are all stakes winners and NEWGATE FARM purchased 10% to race with Dynamic Syndications clients.
Wonderful Wandjina Welcomed
Associate first-season sire Wandjina (Snitzel) is also tipped to make his presence felt. “I think he’s going to surprise a few people,” Slade said. “I was with Gai (Waterhouse) when he was there and there’s no doubt he was the best colt at Tulloch Lodge.” Wandjina stands at $22,000 incl GST and his first crop sold up to $360,000.
“He averaged $100,000 across all sales so again, great results for breeders,” Slade said.
“We’ve got one by him in our stallions’ syndicate with Peter Snowden and he’s a horse we all like a lot.”
Wandjina won three races with his career highlight a victory in the G1 Australian Guineas.
Dynamic Syndications purchased a filly by Wandjina from Spooked – a winning daughter of Gr2 winning Gr1 placed BEAT THE FADE. This is one of only 3 Wandjina’s in Gai’s stable and the filly has broken-in well and will be aimed at the big autumn 2yo races.
Remarkable Reports on Rubick
Coolmore are optimistic about this season’s prospects for Rubick (Encosta de Lago), who stands at $17,600 incl GST, off the back of a racing career that netted three wins, including the G2 Schillaci Stakes.
“It’s early days yet and we are reluctant to get carried away, but the feedback so far has been unanimously positive,” Racing, Sales and Marketing Manager Sebastian Hutch said.
“He has offspring with pretty much all of the leading trainers and most encouragingly the stock seems to be very natural runners.
“The reports are that they are thriving in the stable, eating well and enjoying their work.”
At this stage, it’s hard to ask much more than that and by the sounds of things, it looks like he’ll be represented in the early 2-year-old races if things continue to progress in the manner that they have to date.
“The word on the grapevine is that the Rubick colt out of Balloons with Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott looks very promising indeed, while the Rubick colt out of Charm’s Honour is reported to have made a very strong impression on Gerald Ryan. Waterhouse & Bott have a filly out of Without Exception which also impresses them. We have had particularly positive reports from Lindsay Park, Toby Edmonds and Ciaron Maher among others, so all the signs are very positive at this early stage. Fingers crossed!”
Numbers will also support Rubick’s challenge for first season stallion honours. “We are very excited by him and the fact that he had 158 registered live foals in his first crop is very much in his favour,” Hutch said.
“He retired with similar racetrack credentials to the likes of I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon and Not A Single Doubt, but with a better stallion’s pedigree than each of those horses, it is hard to fault his credentials.
"The sire line has been responsible for the champion first season sire in two of the last six years, so when you couple all those factors together, he looks to have very strong claims.
“We were very pleased with how his first yearlings sold – he had 31 sell for $100,000 or more. It was a competitive year for first season sires, but we had seen a lot of his foals early on and knew that he had plenty of good-lookers on the ground. What was particularly encouraging was the diverse spread of investors that were keen to acquire stock by him. He was a naturally precocious horse with brutal raw speed and they are qualities that are very desirable in the commercial marketplace.”
Dynamic Syndications purchased 2 exciting yearlings by Rubick. We loved Rubick as a yearling and had his x-rays read as a yearling but an issue that was present denied us the opportunity to buy him. Eventually the horse gave succumbed to that issue but not before he had won 3 races and $379k.
We purchased a Colt by him from Balloons which we syndicated as an all-girls syndicate. He has been named ZEMDEGS and is in work now and showing truckloads of ability at Randwick.
We also purchased a special filly at the Classic sale from Without Exception. She is a full sister to 2yo Stakes Winner Krupt and half-sister to 2yo stakes winner Anevay from a terrific black type pedigree. She is currently in pre-training and is giving every indication she is top shelf.
Bet Big on Brazen Beau
Expectations are also understandably high at Darley with every indication that two members of the global thoroughbred powerhouse’s stallion roster will be major players in this season’s 2-year-old features. Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) added Group One victories to his pedigree before retirement and he has received a rousing receptions from Australasian breeders.
Brazen Beau was a short course specialist of the highest order, his CV boasting a Group One Flemington double in the Coolmore Stud Stakes and the Newmarket Handicap. He subsequently took on the world and finished second in the Gr1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot confirming his international sprinting profile.
“He’s been very popular as you’d expect being by I Am Invincible and a Group One winner,” Darley Managing Director Vin Cox said. “We’re very, very happy with him and his book’s pretty much full now.”
Brazen Beau, who stands at $38,500 incl GST, has also very much stamped his mark on his first crop. “They are dark in colour, very good shoulders and well set fetlocks and hind quarters,” Cox said. “We’ll certainly have a couple to go early.”
The stallion’s first crop sold up to an impressive $700,000 with McEvoy Mitchell Racing signing for the filly out of Coolmore’s draft at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. She is out of the Encosta de Lago (Fairy King {USA}) mare Pretty Penny, whose six foals to race have all been successful and include the stakes winners Sertorious (Galileo {IRE}), I Am Titanium (Flying Spur) and Dollar For Dollar (High Chaparral {IRE}).
Under the Godolphin arm of the operation, Darley also backed Brazen Beau by purchasing his colt out of the Listed winner Veuvelicious (Northern Meteor) from Amarina Farm’s Easter Sale draft for $400,000. “Being bought at a later sale there won’t be such a rush with him,” Cox said.
Dynamic Syndications purchased a stunning filly by the sire from Plastic Fantastic and gave her to Mick Price. Named AUGMENTATION, she has been in and out of pre-training on three occasions to date and has delighted her track riders with her natural ability.
Golden Grandeur expected from Arrowfield’s Adonis - Olympic Glory
Arrowfield Stud’s Olympic Glory (IRE) (Choisir) was a champion 2-year-old and a champion 3-year-old miler and the multiple Group One winner has subsequently made a splash in the auction rings with his first crop selling up to $600,000.
He stands at $16,500 incl GST. “Olympic Glory was a very good 2-year-old himself and went early, he won before Royal Ascot and was unluckily beaten in the Coventry before he won a Group One,” Arrowfield Bloodstock Manager Jon Freyer said.
“We think they will go early and they’re in some very good hands so we’re eager to see them out before Christmas.
“In his first crop he covered 120 mares so that’s a good number. Interestingly, at the sales a lot of buyers bought more than one and the feedback has been good. They sold particularly well and they’ve showed a great return on the investment for breeders.”
Progeny of Olympic Glory have sold up to $600,000 with Northern Farm’s Katsumi Yoshida, breeder of the stallion sensation Deep Impact (JPN) (Sunday Silence {USA}), purchasing a sought after colt.
Dynamic Syndications purchased a super colt by the sire from the sensational Gr1 winning mare Covertly. The dam won 6 races -4 at 2- and $764k including 4 stakes races and was also Gr1 placed. To date she has had 3 winners including Stakes Winner Detective and two others have both been stakes performed horses.
So good is this colt and his pedigree that the first to buy a 10% Share was Arrowfield Stud as a potential stallion prospect.
He has broken-in like his type and pedigree suggested he should and has been in and out of pre-training on 3 occasions and what he has displayed he could be anything. We are thrilled with this colt.