One door closes and another door opens in the racing game and that’s what has happened for the owners of magnificently bred 4yo mare
SONOMA.
SONOMA
SONOMA (by EXCEED AND EXCEL / RIO OSA) has the conformation and most importantly, the pedigree to be in the
top 5% of maiden mares heading to stud this spring.
SONOMA started on 7 occasions for 4 seconds and was back in work with
Peter and Paul Snowden and ready to trial. Unfortunately she galloped in the heavy going last Monday morning in preparation for the trial but pulled up with a bowed tendon.
Her racing career was immediately over.
However
highlighting our business strategy to buy well-bred fillies to race ensures that many of our clients have an
excellent residual value in their horses when that horse’s racing career is over.
SONOMA is the classic working example of a career after racing.
PIERRO
SONOMA has been booked to visit
Coolmore Studs exciting young stallion
PIERRO (by Lonhro).
PIERRO
Standing at a
Service Fee of $77,000, the resulting foal will be extremely commercial and a walk up start to be an
Easter quality yearling.
SONOMA is the
first foal from the
dual stakes winning mare RIO OSA (by CANNY LAD ex PEACH by VAIN).
RIO OSA
A winner of 3 races - 1 at 2 – including the
VRC Seppelts Wines Sprint LR, Scone Dark Jewel LR.
She is the
elder half-sister to
CRIMSON GOD 3yo and
VILLEGRANDE 2yo both are by
LONHRO.
RIO OSA is considered
so valuable by her owners DARLEY STUD that in January 2013 she was exported to Europe where she is now at stud.
RIO OSA has a
weanling colt at foot by
INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and is in foal to
Northern Hemisphere time to
EXCEED AND EXCEL. The resulting progeny of that mating will be a
full relation to SONOMA.
Whilst that is impressive on its own, it’s the balance of this commercial pedigree that has serious
bells and whistles.
PRESERVE
RIO OSA is a
FULL SISTER to
Gr1 Winner, Gr2 Winner and Gr3 Winner PRESERVE.
PRESERVE is also a wonderful broodmare. She has produced multiple Gr3 Winner SAFEGUARD (by EXCEED AND EXCEL).
PRESERVE has also produced multiple Group-placed filly
SHAUMARI (by
Medaglia d’Oro).
Because
PRESERVE and
RIO OSA are
FULL SISTERS and both mares were covered by EXCEED AND EXCEL with
PRESERVE producing SAFEGUARD
SAFEGUARD
and
RIO OSA producing SONOMA - that represents
SONOMA being classed as a
Full Sister-in-Blood to SAFEGUARD.
But wait … there’s more !
RIO OSA and PRESERVE are
both from the broodmare
PEACH (by VAIN).
PEACH was an exceptional broodmare. Not only did she produce
11 winners from 12 to race included amongst these are
two Group 1 Winners.
One is obviously
PRESERVE whilst she’s also the Dam of
DENMAN (by Lonhro) the wonderful racehorse and now outstanding young sire.
DENMAN
DENMAN
A winner of 9 races and over
$1.2 million including the STC Golden ROSE Gr1, Stan Fox Gr2, MRC D’urban S., Gr2, STC Run to the Roses Gr3, MRC Zeditave S., LR, Wellington Race Club S., LR.
PEACH also produced
MARVILHA - a winner of 3 races and the Dam of
multiple Group Winner SOUL (by COMMANDS)
SOUL
winner of 5 Races including
VRC Danehill Gr2, Newbury Hackwood S., Gr3, and MRC Kevin Heffenan S., LR.
Because
SONOMA is the first foal from
RIO OSA (by
CANNY LAD ex PEACH by VAIN), she is the elder half-sister to
CRIMSON GOD 3yo and
VILLEGRANDE 2yo - both are by
LONHRO and therefore, because
RIO OSA is a half-sister to
DENMAN - that makes both
CRIMSON GOD and VILLEDRANDE - 3/4 brothers-in-blood to DENMAN.
LONHRO
ABOUT THE SONOMA / PIERRO MATING:
SONOMA PIERRO
By sending
SONOMA to PIERRO we are creating an extremely close relation to
DENMAN.
DENMAN
T
his is because
RIO OSA and DENMAN are
half-siblings to one another and
DENMAN is a son of
LONHRO and
PIERRO is grand-son of
LONHRO.
Also should
SONOMA’s half-siblings by LONHRO be successful on the racetrack, we will be producing an extremely close relation to those gallopers as well.
The resulting foal from this mating will be bred on what is described as the
LONHRO / DANEHILL cross.
Already this cross has produced
11 Stakes Winners – the best of these is:
BOUNDING Gr1 Winner (LONHRO ex BELIEVE’N’SUCEED by EXCEED AND EXCEL)
Also there is:
BENFICA Gr1 LONHRO ex HUT (DANEHILL)
MESSENE Gr2 LONHRO ex BELLE GISELLE (REDOUTE'S CHOICE)
OBSEQUIOUS Gr2 LONHRO ex SYCOPHANT (COMMANDS)
PINWHEEL Gr2 LONHRO ex QUILT (DANEHILL)
DEER VALLEY Gr3 LONHRO ex DANISLEW (DANEHILL)
EIGHT TILL LATE Gr3 LONHRO ex FUTURE CHOICE (REDOUTE'S CHOICE)
BLACK MINX LR LONHRO ex FAITH HILL (DANEHILL)
GENERALIFE LR LONHRO ex ALBAICIN (REDOUTE'S CHOICE)
MINNESOTA SHARK LR LONHRO ex PONTON FLYER (FLYING SPUR)
PINCH RIVER LR DENMAN ex AVENUE GIRL (CATBIRD)
With so many lines in this female family actively breeding, there is a significant chance that this family could grow significantly in black type over the next 12 months.
We wish our owners who have elected to indulge their passion for the
sport of kings and become
breeders, the very best of luck in the future with their endeavours. We look forward to inspecting the resulting progeny at yearling sales in the future.