Exciting young sire
Uncle Mo continued his prolific run of success last weekend with his daughter
Gomo taking out the
Gr1 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland on Friday.
GOMO
She became the
second individual Gr1 winner from the first crop of her sire and her win sees
Uncle Mo draw even further clear in the race to become champion 1st crop sire in the US.
The win for
Gomo, who broke her maiden on turf, came just 6 days after star colt Nyquist continued his unbeaten run with a
second Gr1 win in the Frontrunner Stakes in California.
To cap another excellent weekend for
Uncle Mo, his daughter
Lost Raven became the 11th individual winner from his first crop when scoring by almost 5 lengths in an 1100m maiden at Belmont Park in New York on Sunday.
UNCLE MO as a racehorse
UNCLE MO at stud
Uncle Mo has now sired 4 individual stakes winners from his first northern hemisphere crop and his progeny earnings of over
US$1.47m are almost twice that of any other 1st crop sire in the US in 2015.
Uncle Mo is due to have his first runner on Australian soil with his daughter Conchita set to contest the 1000m 2yo race on Saturday’s card at Randwick.
The Paul Perry trainee, an impressive barrier trial winner at Newcastle recently, was a late scratching from the Listed Gimcrack Stakes last Saturday.
Uncle Mo stands at Coolmore Stud.
With Uncle Mo’s progeny excelling on the turf this year, it came as no surprise to see buyers bidding up big on Uncle Mo’s progeny at the recent Keeneland September Yearling Sale where leading US trainer Bob Baffert bought one of Uncle Mo’s colts for $700,000.
“It’s an Uncle Mo and he’s hot,” said Baffert of his purchase.
“He’s just a really solid, sound, good-walking colt,
“He had a lot of class about him and speaks volumes for Uncle Mo’s own awesome athleticism, which he is transmitting to his progeny.”
Even before his amazing first crop success Uncle Mo was impressing with his ‘types’. As a result his outstanding first US yearlings of 2014 sold for $550,000, $450,000, $390,000 with others in the $300,000-plus bracket.
The unbeaten colt won the Gr1 Del Mar Futurity by four lengths, emulating last year’s victor and subsequent Triple Crown winner
American Pharoah.
Nyquist is now favoured to emulate his sire by winning the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland at the end of October.
NYQUIST
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GOMO
UNCLE VINNY UNCLE BRENNIE
With the success of
Nyquist, Gomo, Uncle Vinny, Uncle Brennie, his yearlings averaged in excess of $220,000 at the Kenelend September sale.
Australian breeders can access Uncle Mo this spring at a fee of $16,500, a fee that may prove a bargain in 2016.