Major Hiccup for Breeding Industry as Super Sire THE AUTUMN SUN to miss 2024 Season

25 Jul 24

Arrowfield Stud's leading young sire THE AUTUMN SUN sadly will miss the 2024 breeding season after sustaining a pelvic injury in his paddock in late March.

THE AUTUMN SUN - injured

He has been under close veterinary care and restricted to box rest at Arrowfield since that time.

A scan earlier this week revealed his injury is healing but not to the extent necessary for him to be able to serve this coming season.

The Autumn Sun is otherwise in good health and coping well with his recuperation. Arrowfield are confident he will make a full recovery and resume stud duties in the 2025 season.

This is a massive loss to the Australian Breeding landscape for the 2024 breeding season.

The spectacular racetrack star of his generation, a 5-time Group 1 winner at two & three, The Autumn Sun, was the best racing colt by his sire Redoute’s Choice.

THE AUTUMN SUN in full flight

Australia’s Champion 3YO Colt of 2018/19, The Autumn Sun has made an immediate impact as a sire with six Group 1 performers including three first-crop Group 1 Classic winners from just 104 starters to date.

His three (3) first-crop G1 Classic winners are: Autumn Angel, Coco Sun & Vibrant Sun.

The significance of this feat is underlined by the fact that his three are G1 Classic Winners and that he leads All Australian Stallions for Group 1 winners from the 2020 foal crop. He sits ahead of Dundeel (2) and Zoustar (2).

Few stallions make the kind of impact that The Autumn Sun has made during the 2023-24 season when he sired these three first-crop 3YO Group 1 Classic winners in a three (3) week period.

First came Autumn Angel who beat both the VRC Oaks G1 winner Zardozi and the New Zealand Derby G1 winner Orchestral to win the Australian Oaks G1. Autumn Angel had also won the Kewney S. G2 & Ethereal S. G3 and ended her season as her sire’s first millionaire.

The Autumn Sun then dominated the finish in the G1 Australasian Oaks when incredibly he sired the trifecta when Vibrant Sun defeated Private Legacy & Coco Sun.

A search of stallion records reveals there has only been two (2) other Australasian Group 1 Classic trifectas in the past 40 years, achieved by sires; Sir Tristram in the 1986 New Zealand Oaks and High Chaparral in the 2010 Australian Derby.

More G1 success was to follow for The Autumn Sun when Coco Sun went on to take out the South Australian Derby G1 by 1.3 lengths, defeating subsequent Queensland Derby G1 winner Warmonger.

These three Group 1 Classic Race Winners head 11 stakes-performers that The Autumn Sun has compiled for his resume this season. They are:

AUTUMN ANGEL
1st Australian Oaks Gr1; TAB Kewney Stakes Gr2; Ethereal Stakes Gr3;
2nd TAB Adrian Knox Stakes Gr3; Seven Rough Habit Plate Gr3; 3rd Entry Education Stutt Stakes Gr2;

VIBRANT SUN
1st Australasian Oaks Gr1; Alexandra Stakes Gr3;

COCO SUN
1st South Australian Derby Gr1; 3rd Australasian Oaks Gr1;

AUTUMN BALLET
1st Darley Silver Shadow Stks Gr2;

Tutta La Vita
2nd Vinery Stud Stakes Gr1; 3rd Darley Flight Stakes Gr1; Surround Stakes Gr1;

Tulsi
3rd New Zealand 1000 Guineas Gr1; Soliloquy Stakes Gr2;

Private Legacy
2nd Australasian Oaks Gr1;

Know Thyself
3rd Winx Guineas Gr3;

Sneaky Sunrise
2nd Taj Rossi Series Final LR;

The Autumn Belle
2nd Clare Lindop Stakes LR;

Kosgei
3rd Roderick Insurance Brokers 3YO Geelong Classic LR;

As at 25 July, the champion son of Redoute’s Choice is holding 2nd position on the Second Season Sires’ by Earnings Premiership from 95 runners with $6,110,729.

Also, he leads the Second Season Sires’ by Winners Premiership with 45 winners, wins (68), stakes winners (4), and stakes wins (7).

Overall from 104 starters he has sired 49 winners of 75 races and over $6.8million

He has also earned 5th spot in illustrious company on the 3YO Sires’ Premiership, behind, Zoustar, Dundeel, I Am Invincible and Snitzel.

The Autumn Sun’s breakthrough season produced a $249,000 average price for his 25 yearlings sold at Inglis Easter & Magic Millions Gold Coast, and a top price of $650,000 for a filly ex Missybeel.

But the real fireworks came at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale, where US owner John Stewart needed $3.2 million to secure multiple Group 1 placegetter Tutta La Vita and 2YO & 3YO Group winner Autumn Ballet was knocked down to Coolmore for $1.6 million.

The Autumn Sun’s six Group 1 performers from his first 100 runners encourage excitement about 2024/25, with almost all his best performers still in training, a promising group of almost-3YOs headed by stakes-placed Flemington winner Sneaky Sunrise and rising 2YOs in most of Australia’s leading stables.

The team at Dynamic Syndications purchased a colossal colt by THE AUTUMN SUN from the mare GRAVITY ZERO – a daughter of More Than Ready and our purchase was just before the sire embarked upon his awesome run of success.

To our team this colt was an equine Adonis and we chose to give the colt straight to our (almost private) trainer Jason Deamer.

Jason has eleven (11) active boxes in his stables in Newcastle and 10 of the 11 are filled by Dynamic Syndications horses.

We are thrilled with the progress our colt has made through the breaking-in and education process and into early training where the wraps are huge.

Shane Rose (28/6/24) has a huge opinion that this colt has an exciting future!

Our belief in the colt is now materialising through his deeds and progression under saddle.

We know we have a highly promising colt with a wonderful hands-on horseman who rides the colt in trackwork. Therefore, we believe the co-ownership team will be highly satisfied with their anticipated success on the track as Jason gives the colt every opportunity to flourish.

A great type with a super horseman, bred to be a star genetically and with the looks of an Adonis.

Add-in the fact that he is great value and with Jason Deamer at Newcastle, the ongoing costs are significantly less than in a city stable.

Dynamic Trainer - Jason Deamer

Jason Deamer is a valuable member of Team Dynamic and we only want him to have young horses that represent the "best of the best” in his stable.

We invite you to join us racing a special colt bred at Arrowfield Stud by their Boom sire THE AUTUMN SUN.

5% Shares are $9,460.