By Breednet, July 3 2023
The Group II Railway Stakes (6f) at The Curragh on Sunday for juvenile colts produced a quinella for Wootton Bassett with Bucanero Fuerte edging out the race favourite Unquestionable.
The Adrian Murray trained Bucanero Fuerte won on debut at The Curragh back in March and then finished third at Royal Ascot in the Group II Coventry Stakes behind another Wootton Bassett colt in River Tiber.
Ridden by Rossa Ryan, Bucanero Fuerte challenged hard at the finish to score a head win over the Aidain O’Brien trained Unquestionable with four lengths back to the next horse.
“I knew Bucanero Fuerte would battle because he needs every yard of 6f. He’s a tough horse, really tough. He’s a beautiful-looking horse too and, you know what, he’s going to improve again. When he won his maiden he was only a shell of a horse. He is twice the horse now than he was then. Please God, we will be back here again for the G1 Phoenix Stakes,” said Adrian Murray.
Purchase for €165,000 from the Arqana August Deauville Yearling Sale by Robson Aguiar, Bucanero Fuerte runs in the Amo Racing colours.
He is a full brother to Wootton Bassett’s Group I winning sprinter Wooded (IRE), who covered 84 mares at Swettenham Stud in Victoria last spring and is slated to return at a fee of $22,000 this year.
Bucanero Fuerte is also a full brother to Group III place Beat le Bon being one of four winners from good producer Frida la Blonde, a sibling to stakes-winners Fred Lalloupet and Mon Pote le Gitan.
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He is the 35th stakes-winner for Wootton Bassett, who returns to Coolmore Australia this spring at a fee of $93,500.
2023 has been a tremendous year for Swettenham Stud and our stallions so far!
Adam Sangster and the team would like to thank everyone for their ongoing support. These outstanding results such as Toronado’s Shesallshenanigans dominating the $1m VOBIS Showdown are not possible without you, the breeder.
In just 5 starts, Shesallshenanigans has accumulated $783,250 in prizemoney along with $94,400 in VOBIS bonuses and vouchers.
Shesallshenanigans’ win was just the cherry on top of what was a mammoth few days for Toronado. Our son of High Chaparral has produced a whopping 17 winners since Saturday, April 8th.A treble on Thursday was followed by another treble on Friday.
On Saturday he sired 4 winners, including a third consecutive victory by rising Hong Kong star Victor The Winner.
A stellar weekend was capped off on Sunday with Toronado gelding Come Right Back winning the $100,000 Geraldton Cup.
WE CAN HELP WITH YOUR 2023 MATING PLANS
Marcus Heritage and Sam Matthews are here to help.
Contact us for bookings, mating analysis or any questions.
Marcus
0429 632 397 or marcus@swettenham.com.au
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0487 851 572 or sam@swettenham.com.au
You are encouraged to book an appointment to see our resident stallions –
Toronado, Rubick, Puissance De Lune and I Am Immortal.
We can help you find the best stallion for your mare physically,
on pedigree and at the right price point.
TORONADO (IRE)
2010 – 9th season – Bay 16.1hh
By High Chaparral (IRE), out of Grand Slam (USA) mare Wana Doo (USA).
Service Fee – $88,000 incl GST
Toronado – Swettenham Stud
✓ Superior Outcross
✓ Sire of 33 Stakes Winners
✓ Biggest & best crops still to come
✓ Sales Ring Reputation
Toronado has done a phenomenal job at stud so far, but it is what’s to come that is most exciting.
In 2023, we will see his best crop to date hit the ground. Big numbers from outstanding mares have Toronado perfectly positioned to be the successor to Champions such as I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon and Snitzel.
Toronado’s ideal size, versatility, outstanding conformation, exceptional fertilty and outcross pedigree make him a suitable companion for the best Australian mares.
RUBICK
2011 – 9th season – Bay 15.3hh
By Encosta De Lago, out of Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) mare Sliding Cube.
Service Fee – $27,500 incl GST
Rubick – Swettenham Stud
✓ Ability to produce a Superstar
✓ Serious Stallion Pedigree
✓ Massive Upside
Rubick has enjoyed a very prosperous 2022-23 season to date, siring 5 stakes winners of 8 stakes races, highlighted by Jacquinot’s pair of Group 1 wins. He remains a top-3 active sire in Australia under $30,000.
Champions I Am Invincible and Snitzel are the only sires at stud to have more 3yo earnings and stakes wins than him this season!
Rubick is a ball of muscle with a terrific nature and asserts himself as a significant source of speed for all breeders.
Lonhro, Danehill, Elusive Quality, Bel Esprit, More Than Ready, Red Ransom…Rubick has enjoyed success with a wide range of pedigrees.
WOODED (IRE)
2017 – 2nd Australian season – Bay or Brown 16.2hh
By Wootton Bassett (GB), out of Elusive City (USA) mare Frida La Blonde (FR).
Service Fee – $22,000 incl GST
Wooded – Swettenham Stud
✓ Outcross from booming young sireline
✓ Elite Fertility
✓ Two outstanding foal crops already in Europe (Pictured)
✓ Incredibly Good-looking
Wooded returns as one of the most exciting young sires in Victoria. A powerful Gr.1 winning sprinter, outcross Wooded is physical perfection for the Australian mare pool.
Wooded stands at 16.2hh and presents with more scope and leg than the typical speed sire, an ideal trait to partner with our colonial mares.
If you have a mare with poor fertility, Wooded is the man for the job. He boasts an impeccable breeding record.
PUISSANCE DE LUNE (IRE)
2008 – 9th season – Grey 16.2hh
By Shamardal (USA), out of Unbridled’s Song (USA) mare Princess Serena (USA).
Service Fee – $14,300 incl GST
Puissance De Lune – Swettenham Stud
✓ Proven Value
✓ Biggest and best crops will be running when you sell!
✓ Outcross son of a Blue Hen mare
Puissance De Lune continues to produce winners, week-in week-out.
A sire with an ability to produce quality middle distance and speed horses, Puissance De Lune boasted a better metropolitan than all top-10 sires last season.
Our grey stallion is perfect for any mare that is looking for a sire with scope and substance.
Puissance De Lune is a serious chance to kick with further success, just like we saw with Rubick – get in now, reap the rewards in the near future.
I AM IMMORTAL
2016 – 4th season – Bay 16.2hh
By I Am Invincible, out of Ad Valorem (USA) mare Meliora.
Service Fee – $13,750 incl GST
I Am Immortal – Swettenham Stud
✓ Vinnie Speed, Vobis Riches
✓ Value access to superior genetics
✓ Huge chance – Average book of over 100 mares
I Am Immortal’s first crop will hit Australian racetracks in 2023. They have already impressed breakers and we will be very surprised if he is the sire of winners before Christmas.
I Am Immortal is another outcross sire, very much in the mould of his Champion sire I Am Invincible. He is a beast of a horse and puts plenty of size and strength into his foals. Neat, speedy mares produce very nice types with him.
15 April, 2023
by Mark Smith, breednet
After siring the inaugural winner of the $1,000,000 The Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria Showdown, Swettenham Stud’s high-flying Toronado (IRE) struck again with Shesallshenanigans in the valuable feature at Sandown-Lakeside on Saturday.
Given a positive ride by Linda Meech, the Simon Zahra-trained filly was strong to the line in defeating the Street Boss (USA) filly Elphinstone by three and a quarter lengths. Making a clean sweep for the fillies, the fast-finishing Treasurway (Starspangledbanner) was a short-head back in third.
Placed in the Listed Cinderella Stakes at Morphettville, Shesallshenanigans advanced her record to three wins and a third from five starts with earnings of $718,850.
Shesallshenanigans finished fourth on debut in the Listed Debutant Stakes at Caulfield, won by King’s Gambit, with Heuristic in third.
“It’s a special day, and I just love the way she went about it. Very professional and just got the job done, Zahra said.
“I’m rapt for all the owners and all the staff.
“You’re backing your judgment, and your owners are backing you, which is really important in this industry.
“They’ve let me do what I need to do, and obviously Ben and Justin are big backers of mine so to get a good win so early in they’ve back me, for these guys, it just gives them confidence.
“We’ve got Ben Cooper, who owns Merrick Station, Justin Docherty, who I think went in about 8 or 9 yearlings and by default, he just kept putting his hand up, which is great.
“She’s booked on a float on Monday. We’ll look after her. She’s looked after us. She’s been to Adelaide and was up quite early.
“She’s done her job. I bought her half sister, so plenty of shares available in that.”
Shesallshenanigans a $115,000 Magic Millions yearling
A $115,000 buy for her trainer from the Kulani Park draft at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Shesallshenanigans is a sister to the Listed VRC Amanda Elliot Stakes winner Shelby Cobra.
Segenhoe Thoroughbreds, consigned a Brazen Beau half-sister to Shesallshenanigans to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Unsurprisingly, Simon Zahra Racing / Cameron Cooke Bloodstock had the final say at $300,000. She was a $210,000 pinhook for James Bester Bloodstock at the 2022 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale.
Celebration time (image Racing Photos)
Their dam Segenhoe Valley (Dane Shadow) was a $325,000 purchase for Sheamus Mills Bloodstock, with Shesallshenanigans at foot, at the 2020 Inglis November (Early) Online Sale.
She has a filly foal by Written Tycoon and is back in foal to Toronado (IRE).
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17 April, 2023
by James Tzaferis, Racing.com
Despite a phenomenal 12 months for his progeny on the racetrack, breeders sending a mare to star stallion Toronado this spring will pay the same price as his 2022 fee after Swettenham Stud announced a consolidated stallion roster.
Toronado, now the sire of 19 Stakes winners including four individual Group 1 winners, will stand for an unchanged fee of $88,000, having covered 150 mares at that mark in 2022.
The High Chaparral entire’s credentials were further franked at Sandown on Saturday when he sired his second VOBIS Sires 2YO Showdown (1200m) winner, in Simon Zahra’s brilliant filly Shesallshenanigans.
Swettenham’s General Manager – Operations and Nominations, Sam Matthews, said consideration was given to upping Toronado’s fee but ultimately stud principal Adam Sangster made the call to ensure more breeders can continue to access the stallion.
Matthews confirmed that Rubick, the sire of multiple G1 winner Jacquinot, was the only sire on the roster that was given a small fee increase for 2023.
“The market probably thought we would put Toronado up, and he probably did warrant an increase, but just because a horse can go up, we don’t believe he needs to go up,” Matthews said.
“He’s a great value proposition as $88,000 – there aren’t many in that league and the other ones that are in that top 10 are a fair bit more expensive than him, but we’re happy for everyone to get a lick of the ice cream.
“Rubick got a little increase from $20,000 to $25,000 and we kept Wooded, Puissance de Lune and I Am Immortal all at the same prices from last year.
“Highland Reel is in Japan at the moment and it’s very expensive to bring a horse back from Japan – we didn’t announce him on the roster and it doesn’t mean that he’s not coming back, we’re just going to see how it all plays out.”
11 April, 2023
by Andrew Eddy, Racing.com
Simon Zahra is happy for his flying Toronado filly Shesallshenanigans to go up in distance in Saturday’s $1 million Showdown at Ladbrokes Park Sandown on Saturday on the back of some advice from his rider.
Shesallshenanigans thrashed her rivals at Bendigo in the Gold Rush (1000m) by a widening four-and-a-half lengths and Zahra said that despite some reservations about going up to the 1200-metre trip on Saturday, he does so after some confident words from jockey Linda Meech.
WATCH: Shesallshenanigans’ win in the Bendigo Gold Rush
“She’s going good, but I suppose the 1200 (metres) is our query,” Zahra said.
“But Linda Meech thought the other day it wouldn’t have been an issue.
“I have it nominated for that stakes race in Adelaide (listed Dequetteville Stakes for fillies) and I said ‘can it run a strong 1200?’ and she said it wouldn’t have been a problem.
“She said she relaxed good and she said, ‘I could have gone slower if I wanted to’.
“That’s our query and obviously what the weather does over the next four or five days. But she’s improved again and going really good.
Shesallshenanigans has won two of her four runs so far, with her first win also coming at Bendigo over the 1100m trip.
Zahra said that while the race in Adelaide offered valuable stakes credit, the Showdown’s enormous purse was tough to overlook.
“It’s a million dollars and she has just got the race smarts,” he said. “She’s fit and this will probably be her peak run.
“It’s a restricted race, like a Magic Millions, and $550,000 to the winner, so it’s nothing to sneeze at.”
By Lewis Lesbirel, TDN
TDN AusNZ can reveal that a lifetime breeding right in Swettenham Stud’s stallion Toronado (Ire) will be offered at auction for the very first time at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on May 4. Fresh from siring another stakes double on Friday, we caught up with Marcus Heritage, nominations at Swettenham, to discuss Toronado’s continued ascent through the Australian stallion ranks.
Just a few hours after his son Beltoro made it back-to-back stakes wins with an emphatic 4l romp in the Listed Albury Gold Cup on Friday, Toronado was provided with his 33rd individual stakes winner and seventh of the season when his talented 3-year-old daughter Papillon Club made a mess of her rivals in the G3 Alexandra S. at The Valley.
Less than a week earlier, Toronado sired the winner of the G1 The Galaxy H. for the second year in succession, with rejuvenated mare Mariamia following in the footsteps of the hugely popular Shelby Sixtysix in winning the sprint feature.
Mariamia | Image courtesy of Sportpix
Add into the mix another eye-catching win for his unbeaten son Kovrov (Fr) in France and a runner in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan on Saturday night, and it has been quite the week for the Swettenham Stud stallion.
His recent run of racetrack success, combined with another stellar season in the sales ring in which his progeny have once again sold for up to $850,000, has prompted Swettenham to take a leap of faith with their flagship stallion, offering a lifetime breeding right in one of Australia’s hottest sires for the very first time.
“Such is the market’s demand for them, at the Chairman’s Sale this year we’ll be offering a lifetime breeding right, which has never happened with Toronado before,” Hermitage revealed.
“We’ll just sit back, leave it unreserved and I’m sure that Lot 1 of the Chairman’s Sale will be a very popular lot.
“It’ll be very interesting to see where the market values him at. He’s still a young sire, he’s only 13 years old so they’ll get value for money with whatever they spend on it.
“Everything that the stallion has done to date has been off a $20,000 service fee, so with the quality of mares that he received last season off the $88,000 fee, it’s very exciting.”
A season to remember on and off the track
Having stood last season at a career-high fee of $88,000 plus GST, Toronado has more than justified his fee increase this season, siring more stakes winners than the likes of Zoustar, Written Tycoon and Fastnet Rock, all of whom commanded significantly higher fees in 2022.
Toronado (Ire) | Standing at Swettenham Stud
What has pleased Swettenham the most, however, is the diversity among his stakes winners, an area in which Heritage feels that Toronado doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
“The run he’s having is super and it’s across the board,” he said. “The market’s appetite for them is strong and they’re great sales horses.
“His colts and geldings are flying in Hong Kong and in Australia, it seems to be the fillies that are flying the flag for him recently. The High Chaparral sireline is typically colt biased, but his fillies are absolutely flying.
“I think he’s had more Australian stakes winners that are fillies than colts and geldings, so he’s a very good stallion and he’s consistently producing good sorts and good runners – male and female, speed horses and staying horses.
“He can produce anything, but there’s certainly no type of horse that’s better than the other. I think it’s a great trait for a stallion to have where you can buy any horse by Toronado and the chances are they’re going to have ability.”
Toronado’s long-lasting purple patch could hardly have come at a more welcome time for the Swettenham Stud team, who announced only last year that he’d be staying in Australia permanently instead of shuttling Down Under from his previous base at Haras de Bouquetot in the Northern Hemisphere.
His progeny have been as sought after as ever in the sales ring ever since the announcement was made, providing many of Swettenham’s biggest clients with a huge windfall in the process.
“For Adam (Sangster) it’s a great reward, he really backed this stallion a few years ago and sent all of his best mares to him,” Heritage added.
“He also bought some mares and sent them to him to give him a start, and now we can sit back and watch it all unfold. Everyone else seems to be jumping in and grabbing a bit of that pie and it’s great to see some of our good clients have success.
“Three Bridges with Beltoro having back-to-back stakes wins on Friday was a great success. He has their brand and they’ve been a big supporter of ours.
Marcus Heritage with partner Charlie White
“They sold a colt by Toronado for $850,000 in January and it’s just great to see these clients of ours that have backed the stallion get some reward for what they’ve put down on him.”
Increase in quality
Further proof of Toronado’s ever-growing popularity will be evident at next week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, where the dual Group 1-winning miler will see by far his largest contingent of Easter yearlings go under the hammer at Riverside Stables.
Having been represented by just one yearling at Easter in 2021 and only three last year, an impressive 11 of Toronado’s sons and daughters are set to be offered for sale next week, and with the likes of Group 1 winner Commanding Jewel(Commands) and the dam of Vinery Stud stallion Ole Kirk featuring among his book of mares last season, Heritage is adamant that the best is yet to come.
Commanding Jewel | Image courtesy of Sportpix
“This year’s crop of yearlings were conceived off a $25,000 plus GST service fee. For a horse to be standing at that fee and get 11 horses in the Easter Yearling Sale is an incredible performance and it’s a great reward for our clients,” he said.
“I’ve been visiting a few farms in the Hunter Valley this week and they’ve been very impressive, they’re as good a group of yearlings by Toronado as I’ve seen.
“The quality of mares that we’ve received the last two seasons as a result of his well-earnt fee rise means that we’ve got better things to come as well.
“This year he covered Group 1 winners, Group 1 producers and siblings to Group 1 winners. He covered pretty much as good a book as you’ll see across the board.”
One of the standouts in this year’s crop of Toronado yearlings is undoubtedly the half-brother to last year’s Doomben 10,000 winner and The Everest placegetter Mazu (Maurice {Jpn}), who will be offered by Parsons Creek Farm as Lot 69 on the opening day of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The colt is out of the evergreen Flying Spur mare Chatelaine, whose five winners to date also include G1 Coolmore Stud S. winner and Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Headway (Charge Forward).
“He’s a very exciting yearling for Parsons Creek,” Heritage said of Lot 69. “Obviously the mare has been a great producer, she’s had two Group 1 winners and this colt is sensational.
Lot 69 – Toronado (Ire) x Chatelaine (colt) | Image courtesy of Inglis
“He’s got muscle on muscle with great scope and I’m sure between the Australian buyers and the Hong Kong market they’ll be very strong on him.”
Heritage also reserved particular praise for Lot 186, a colt out of the winning Rip Van Winkle (Ire) mare Karmic (NZ), who is a half-sister to G1 Rosehill Guineas hero Zabrasive (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) from the family of last year’s G1 Queensland Oaks heroine Gypsy Goddess (NZ) (Tarzino {NZ}).
The colt will be offered by Kitchwin Hills and, according to Heritage, is a perfect example of the quality that Toronado’s stock possesses.
Lot 186 – Toronado (Ire) x Karmic (NZ) | Image courtesy of Inglis
“He grew up at Swettenham Stud and he’s gone on leaps and bounds,” he said.
“He was always a standout on our farm, but to see how he’s come along in the last six months, he’s a sensational-looking animal and I think he’s got more improvement to come.
“Across the board, with the yearlings, I did see, they all had plenty of quality and I think they get that from the old man. They’ve got that good skin, they’ve got kind eyes and from what I’ve been told by all the vendors, they’ve got big raps on how well they prep up.
“They’re hard to fault, they do everything they’re asked and they’re horses that love to please. I think that’s why trainers are so keen to get them in their stables because they’re not hard horses to train.”
Debunking the myths
Whilst the vast majority of Toronado’s stock continues to get better with age, the son of High Chaparral has proven on more than one occasion that he is capable of siring a handy 2-year-old.
In the Northern Hemisphere, his son Tactical (GB) provided the late Queen Elizabeth II with a memorable Royal Ascot winner in the Listed Windsor Castle S. as a 2-year-old, before going on to land the G2 July S. at Newmarket on his next outing, while closer to home, promising juvenile Shesallshenanigans (Toronado {Ire}) followed up her impressive recent maiden win at Bendigo with a stakes placing on just her third career start earlier this month.
Those examples may not be enough to earn him a reputation as a regular source of elite juvenile talent, but Heritage remains unequivocal in his belief that Toronado is far more than a one-trick pony when it comes to his progeny.
“Toronado himself trained on, he was undefeated at two but he won his Group 1s as a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old,” he said.
“I think his progeny are very much the same, the trainers know to give them time and they’ll get their rewards.
“I wouldn’t say they’re slow maturing because they’re so well muscled and they’re easy to do things with from day one, but it’s definitely the 3 and 4-year-olds that are flying the flag for him.
“Only a few weeks ago he had a 2-year-old stakes placegetter and he can get a precocious one, but I think it’s just a matter of the trainers knowing not to push them too hard early.”
Another criticism that has previously been put against Toronado’s name is that his progeny are only effective in Australia, an assertion that Heritage believes is way short of the mark.
“I saw a graphic this morning that he’s a top-three sire in Europe on winners,” he added.
“He had Kovrov win again in France during the week and he’s now three from three. He’s out of an Exceed And Excel mare and that cross has been very successful in Australia, so to see it work up north as well is great.
“I think the word was that he’s an out-and-out Australian sire, but that’s a bit wrong because he’s having winners all across the world, but it just seems to be Australia where he’s really found a home.
“He’s had Group 1 success in Australia and there’s not too many weeks of racing going by without a stakes performer for him.”
by Mark Smith, Breednet – Saturday March 18
The Toronado (IRE) mare Mariamia completed her rapid ascent to the top rung of sprinters when successful in the $1,000,000 Group 1 Kia Ora Galaxy (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Easy for Mariamia and Tyler Schiller (image Steve Hart)
Tyler Schiller celebrated his first Group 1 winner as Mariamia defeated the Cable Bay gelding Uncommon James by a lengths with the 3yo Capitalist colt Cannonball a half-length back in third.
The Group II Expressway Stakes winner on January 28, the Joe Pride-trained mare, bounced back after a slightly disappointing fourth in the Group II Millie Fox Stakes won by Electric Girl.
“She didn’t see the 1300m out the other day but freshened up and back to a sprint trip, she was really dynamic there today,” Pride said.
“That’s her crowning moment, she’s won a Galaxy now.
“It’s a long process, but it’s about having the right team around your horse. There’s plenty of very good trainers out there that are doing their best with their horses as well. For me, we specialise in taking these horses on that maybe need a little bit of rejuvenating, getting the right people around them, and I just relish the task of taking on a horse who maybe someone else has given up on.
“She’s a bonny mare, just great to see her do that there today to state the obvious. She’s been going so well all preparation, and just that run at 1300m it stretched her out with a really quick tempo, and she didn’t really get her chance to finish off that day.
A first for Tyler Schiller (image Steve Hart)
“Given that quiet run in behind them today with no weight on her back and a great reward for Tyler (Schiller), I know he’ll really appreciate that. He rode more winners for me last season than anyone else, and to be able to give him a reward like that it’ll be pretty special for him, and it’s certainly special for us.”
Tyler Schiller revealed the victory had extra special meaning.
“My dad, he’s got cancer. All he wanted to see was for me to win a Group 1 and to come out and do it today, it was unreal,” Schiller revealed.
“It’s the best feeling in the world, to do it on a mare like that. She’s come through the grades really sharply and Joe (Pride) has turned her around, but gee she’s a good mare.
“She jumped well, put herself in the spot. When I quickened up on the inside of Eduardo I thought I was home, she did the rest.
“I thought it was inevitable at 100m, she was doing it easy, no one was catching her. To see her freeball for the last 200m, she’s a super mare, and I am very grateful to Joe (Pride) and the connections for putting me on. I can’t believe I won a Group 1.”
Newhaven Park Stud’s six-year-old Toronado mare Mariamia advances her record to eight three seven from 37 starts with earnings of $1,135,510.
Mariamia, was purchased by Newhaven Park for $335,000 off Shane Stockdale at the 2022 Inglis March (Early) Online Sale. She was an $18,000 purchase from the Swettenham Stud draft from book 2 of the 2018 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Mariamia is the best of two winners from three to race for the Encosta de Lago mare Quinta Lago.
A sister to Group II-placed Halekulani and a half-sister to the dam of Group 1 VRC Derby hero Warning (Declaration of War), Quinta Lago was dropped from official records in 2020.
Bred by Adam Sangster, Mariamia is the second consecutive winner of the Galaxy for Toronado (IRE) after Shelby Sixty Six and is the fourth Group 1 winner for the son of High Chaparral (IRE).
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James Tzaferis – Racing.com
13 February, 2023
Caraman Park team with their Toronado colt (Image: Inglis)
The timely online purchase of broodmare Devil In Her Heart in 2021 paid handsome dividends for the family-run Carramar Park at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Monday.
Carramar Park’s Tim Alchin paid $27,500 for the unraced Star Witness mare via Inglis Digital, with the mare nursing a Palentino foal at foot and also in foal to Toronado.
Months later, Devil In Her Heart’s siblings Wandabaa and Malkovich emerged as Stakes winners, while Toronado’s stocks have continued to rise via the deeds of Masked Crusader
The Toronado colt caught the attention of several prospective buyers once he stepped into the ring at Riverside Stables before eventually being knocked down to Hong Kong-based Legend Bloodstock and Dullingham for $270,000.
Alchin said Monday’s result was a dream come true.
“Growing up with the horses, I always wanted a mare so I was looking online and this girl came up,” Alchin said.
“The family was active – it had Seewhatshebrings and then Malkovich emerged and then Wandaba started winning.
“Toronado had Masked Crusader at the time.
“The rest is history.
“It really is a dream result, it’s unreal.”
The result continued solid Inglis Classic Sale for Swettenham Stud’s Toronado, who had 10 yearlings sells for an average $211,000.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club paid $420,000 for Lot 256, a Toronado colt from SA’ Cornerstone Stud, while the stallion’s progeny were also snapped up by Mick Price, Michael Kent and Michael Hickmott.