Darley Stud in the USA announced in October 2011 that Australia's Premier Sire in 2011 Lonhro would be standing the Northern Hemisphere's 2012 season at Darley Stud in Lexington Kentucky, in one of the first USA reverse-shuttles from Australia.
Lonhro represents a truly Australian sireline. His sire is the great champion Octagonal. For those who have never seen him run, Octagonal was a true freak of nature. He won 14 of 28 starts, including 10 G1 races. A truly brilliant and versatile runner, Octagonal won races from 5.5 furlongs to 12 furlongs (1100 to 2400 meters). His dam was the legendary producer Eight Carat (dam of five G1 winners), but Octagonal was clearly her best performer.
Octagonal was by Zabeel, the legendary sire of Australasia. Zabeel has stood his entire career at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand. He has 41 Group 1 winners in his remarkable career that includes well over 100 SWs. Zabeel himself is by Sir Tristram, a modest racehorse in Europe but a stallion who transformed Australasian breeding.
Lonhro is from Octagonal's first crop. It might well be successfully argued he was a better racehorse than his sire. A winner of 26 of 35 starts, Lonhro won 11 Group 1 races at distances from seven 1400 to 2000 meters. He won the prestigious Gr1 Caulfield Stakes twice. Lonhro was a G3 SW at two at 1100m, a winner of the 1600m, G1 Caulfield Guineas at three and a multiple G1 winner at four and five.
Lonhro retired to stud in 2004, with his first runners in 2007. From that first crop, he already has 11 SWs, led by G1 winner Beaded (winner of the prestigious sprint, the Doomben 10,000). Lonhro was the leading sire in Australia for the racing season that ended in July 2011.
Left in his wake were perennial leading Australian sires Redoute's Choice and Encosta de Lago, along with High Chaparral (the sire of So You Think) and More Than Ready.
Lonhro has 32 SWs, with three G1 winners (at six, seven and eight furlongs). Lonhro shows signs of siring slightly more speed in his progeny than his sire or grandsire. The majority of his SWs are winning at 1200m - 2000m.
Lonhro will be a welcome addition to the stallion ranks in the USA and Darley should be commended for taking this bold step acknowledging him as a World Class sire and taking him to the world.
On Saturday he continued his production of Stakes results when boom 2yo and Golden Slipper 2nd favourite PIERRO sensationally won the Gr2 Todman Slipper Trial for the boys.
Pound for Pound - Lonhro is the best value stallion at Stud in Australasia.
He stands at a Service fee of $77,000 yet his yearlings average only $80,000 because clients traditionally need to be patient and see them race as 3yo's. However they are worth the wait as his statistics show with 91.1% Runners : Earners and 54 Stakes Performers.
Dynamic Syndications currently have on offer a magnificent LONHRO filly from a Gr1 Winning mare - Fine Society.
She's with Sydney's Leading Trainer - Chris Waller
By a Gr1 Winner - From A Gr1 Winner - Being Aimed at the Gr1 Classics!
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