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WOODED
Wootton Bassett x Frida La Blonde
Bay – 2017 – 16.2 hh
2025 Service Fee: $16,500 (inc GST)
Race Record
At 2-years-old, in 4 runs
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1st Prix de Tour en Bessin Deauville, 7f .1400m
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2nd Prix la Rochette Gr.3 ParisLongchamp, 7f . 1400m
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2nd Prix Charles Pichegru Dieppe, 7f . 1400m
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3rd Prix Thomas Bryon Jockey Club de Turquie Gr.3 Saint Cloud, 7f . 1400m
At 3-years-old, 5 runs
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1st Prix de l’Abbaye de longchamp Longines Gr.1 ParisLongchamp, 5f . 1000m
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1st Prix Texanita Gr.3 Chantilly, 6f . 1200m
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2nd Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert Gr.3 ParisLongchamp, 5f . 1000m
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4th Qatar Prix Jean Prat Gr.1 Deauville, 7f . 1400m
PROMO
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Sales Results
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Stud Summary
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Toronado (Ire) led the sire’s table at Inglis Premier across both books with gross sales of $3.7 million for his 14 yearlings sold. His sale topper, Lot 197, was sold for $1 million by Gilgai Farm to Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) and Hong Kong Bloodstock.
“It’s a discerning market currently and buyers are selective in what they are pursuing. The biggest difference between Classic and Premier was that we had more sire power at Premier,” said Hutch.
The sire power was apparent with three yearlings by global sensation Frankel (GB) making over $1.5 million, at an average of $520,000. Proven sires were the most popular with the top nine stallions by average all being proven sires, and the tenth, Lucky Vega (Ire), has performed well with his juveniles so far this season.
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sire
|
lots catalogued
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withdrawn
|
sold
|
aggregate
|
average
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronado (IRE) | 21 | 2 | 14 | $ 3,735,000 | $ 266,786 |
| Zoustar | 14 | 3 | 7 | $ 2,180,000 | $ 311,429 |
| Written Tycoon | 22 | 6 | 9 | $ 2,160,000 | $ 240,000 |
| Wootton Bassett (GB) | 13 | 3 | 9 | $ 2,085,000 | $ 231,667 |
| Ole Kirk | 13 | 2 | 10 | $ 1,725,000 | $ 172,500 |
| The Autumn Sun | 14 | 10 | $ 1,620,000 | $ 162,000 | |
| I Am Invincible | 11 | 4 | 6 | $ 1,570,000 | $ 261,667 |
| Pinatubo (IRE) | 12 | 10 | $ 1,565,000 | $ 156,500 | |
| Frankel (GB) | 7 | 1 | 3 | $ 1,560,000 | $ 520,000 |
| Home Affairs | 14 | 2 | 10 | $ 1,550,000 | $ 155,000 |
Table: Inglis Premier (Book 1 and 2) sires by aggregate
“Toronado’s first million dollar yearling was an incredible result. This is the first crop off an $80,000 fee, his 2-year-olds are off a $45,000 fee, and the rest were at that $20,000 or lower.
“With each increase in fee, the quality of mares has increased too. It’s not just better mares, but also a different type of breeder. He started out with breed to race mares, but now breeders are spending $80,000 they are sending more commercial mares and looking to take the stock to the sales,” said Swettenham Stud’s Sam Matthews.
“Written Tycoon is probably the closest comparison, he really kicked along and got sons at stud once he hit an $80,000 fee. We also capped his book to ensure that breeders could get into the sales they wanted. Toronado can handle more mares, but we felt it was the right thing to do for our clients, if they are spending that much, we want to give them the best chance to get a return on investment. It’s the making sure the quality is there, and quality over quantity.
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sire
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lots catalogued
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withdrawn
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sold
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aggregate
|
average
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankel (GB) | 7 | 1 | 3 | $ 1,560,000 | $ 520,000 |
| Zoustar | 14 | 3 | 7 | $ 2,180,000 | $ 311,429 |
| Toronado (IRE) | 21 | 2 | 14 | $ 3,735,000 | $ 266,786 |
| I Am Invincible | 11 | 4 | 6 | $ 1,570,000 | $ 261,667 |
| Written Tycoon | 22 | 6 | 9 | $ 2,160,000 | $ 240,000 |
| Wootton Bassett (GB) | 13 | 3 | 9 | $ 2,085,000 | $ 231,667 |
| Extreme Choice | 3 | 3 | $ 675,000 | $ 225,000 | |
| Too Darn Hot (GB) | 6 | 2 | 4 | $ 840,000 | $ 210,000 |
| Snitzel | 8 | 4 | 4 | $ 820,000 | $ 205,000 |
| Lucky Vega (IRE) | 13 | 3 | 6 | $ 1,140,000 | $ 190,000 |
Table: Inglis Premier (Book 1 and 2) sires by average (3 or more sold)
“His colts are easy to sell, even though his fillies are slight better, but there’s a market perception that he only leaves colts. His last three Australian stakes winners are fillies.”
Gilgai Farm, who sold the seven figure colt, also bred Toronado’s debut crop G1 William Reid Stakes winner Masked Crusader. Toronado’s last three Australia stakes winners are Listed Stutt Stakes winning 3-year-old filly Suntora, Listed Scenic Blast Stakes winner Twain’s Angel, and Listed Black Pearl Stakes winner Romantic Choice.
Five first-season sires—St Mark’s Basilica (Fr), Stay Inside, Pinatubo (Ire), Home Affairs, and Wild Ruler—achieved an average sale price exceeding the overall Book 1 average.
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sire
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lots catalogued
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withdrawn
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sold
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aggregate
|
average
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mark’s Basilica (FR) | 4 | 4 | $ 720,000 | $ 180,000 | |
| Stay Inside | 14 | 4 | 7 | $ 1,152,500 | $ 164,643 |
| Pinatubo (IRE) | 12 | 10 | $ 1,565,000 | $ 156,500 | |
| Home Affairs | 14 | 2 | 10 | $ 1,550,000 | $ 155,000 |
| Wild Ruler | 8 | 2 | 6 | $ 920,000 | $ 153,333 |
| Wooded (IRE) | 9 | 1 | 6 | $ 562,000 | $ 93,667 |
| Portland Sky | 7 | 1 | 6 | $ 460,000 | $ 76,667 |
| Palace Pier (GB) | 7 | 1 | 6 | $ 400,000 | $ 66,667 |
| Sword of State | 1 | 1 | $ 65,000 | $ 65,000 | |
| Extreme Warrior | 2 | 1 | $ 60,000 | $ 60,000 | |
| Captivant | 3 | 1 | 1 | $ 55,000 | $ 55,000 |
| Tiger of Malay | 5 | 4 | $ 193,000 | $ 48,250 | |
| Acrobat | 5 | 2 | 3 | $ 80,000 | $ 26,667 |
| Profiteer | 3 | 1 | $ 20,000 | $ 20,000 |
Table: Inglis premier (Book 1 and 2) first season sires by average
“Wooded was incredible. I was over the moon to see him go so well and using his multiplier of fee, he led the first season sires. He’s had exceptional support from buyers, and they were bought by good judges. It validates that he is the right sort of horse for Australia. People understand who he is and what he offers, and for me, his return on investment was as exciting as it was to see Toronado’s results.”
Wooded (Ire) stood his first season for $20,000 plus GST and he achieved an average of $93,700 for six yearlings sold at Inglis Premier.
“I Am Immortal had his record price with Widden selling a filly for $160,000. She’s a full sister to a recent debut winner. And I Am Immortal has a strong hand in the Showdown.” Lot 354 was purchased by Busuttin Racing, and her full brother 2-year-old gelding McGaw won on debut at the end of January for trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne.
Lot 354 – I Am Immortal x Niki Piki Milo (NZ) (colt) | Image courtesy of Inglis
Swettenham Stud haven’t had a draft at the yearling sales for the last five years.
“It was the best decision we ever made. It allows us to support our clients at the sales, without being stuck at our barn with our own horses. Our clients know that we’ll be at the sales promoting our stallions and their progeny.
Sam Matthews and Hannah Penfold | Image courtesy of Inglis
“We have around 35 broodmares and we race all the fillies through leases, and sell the colts across all the different sales through other people’s drafts. We had only one yearling in Premier, and it wasn’t by one of our stallions,” said Matthews.
And on the sale itself. “It felt that people were nervous at the start, but then once horses were on the market, they were easy to sell and many made overs.”
View the full article here: https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/edition/2025-03-06/inglis-premier-sale-analysis-median-and-aggregate-rises-defy-the-overall-sale-market-in-2025
Victorian-based stallion Toronado (Ire) topped the sire’s list by gross over the two days with 13 sold for $3.68 million, while Zoustar and Written Tycoon came in second and third with almost identical aggregates at $2.18 million and $2.16 million respectively.
“I absolutely love him,” said Gilgai Farm’s Rick Jamieson of Swettenham Stud’s Toronado (Ire) and whilst we may put that down to this week’s stellar results as the reason for that, the fact is that Jamieson has been on the Toronado bandwagon from day one.
He bred the G1 Sussex Stakes and G1 Queen Anne Stakes winner’s first Group 1 winner Masked Crusader; the G1 William Reid Stakes winner who he sold for $340,000 to the Hawkes stable at the 2018 Inglis Premier.
Toronado (Ire) | Standing at Swettenham Stud
Three of his 11-strong draft at this year’s sale are sons of Toronado and each sold well, exceptionally so in fact with the equal sale-topping $1 million colt being a Gilgai product.
He went through the ring on Sunday whilst another two sold well on Monday; Lot 322, a three-quarter brother to Masked Crusader fetching $475,000 to the bid of Mulberry Racing and Lot 449 $400,000 to Upper Bloodstock (discussed below).
“Our Toronado colts are beautiful,” Jamieson enthused, “the stand-outs of our draft.”
Sending “six or eight mares to Toronado,” Jamieson currently has six in foal to the horse he said is his “second favourite stallion after Ole Kirk (who he bred).
There is, he told us, so much to like about Toronado.
“He is fertile, he gets them in foal and he sires good types. When a stallion does that, it’s a good start; you are a fighting chance.”
“And I don’t think we have seen the best of Toronado yet as the quality of his books has improved over the last few years.”
“And I don’t think we have seen the best of Toronado yet as the quality of his books has improved over the last few years.” – Rick Jamieson
“Adam Sangster deserves a lot of credit, he has supported Toronado all the way through.”
Swettenham Stud’s Sam Matthews was understandably delighted by the demand for Toronado colts though also a bit disappointed in the response to his fillies.
“The Hong Kong factor is a major part of his sons selling better than his daughters,” he said, “and the fact that he doesn’t yet have a good son at stud.”
“But we are big believers in his fillies as well.”
Matthews is fully aware of the perception that the sire line of High Chaparral (Ire) – and Sadler’s Wells (USA) before him – has been much better represented overall by its boys than its girls, but believes that has been overstated.
Matthews loves the consistency of the stock sired by Toronado.
“You can send a 15.3hh mare to him or a 16.3hh mare and you are going to get the same good type. He has been consistent right from the start. He gets great sales results and they can run.”
Sam Matthews | Image courtesy of The Image is Everything
He is looking forward to even better performances with this yearling crop the first sired by Toronado when his fee was raised from $49,500 incl GST to $88,000 incl GST.
Ross Lao of Upper Bloodstock is an unabashed Toronado fan and when he put in the successful $400,000 bid for Lot 449 it was the fifth time he has bought one of the bay’s yearlings.
Another nice one from the draft of Gilgai Farm, the colt is out of the placed Exceed And Excel mare Segosha whose dam is a half-sister to the Group 2 gallopers Chinchilla Rose (Lion Hunter) and Ferocity as well as the Group 3-winning high-class broodmare Leone Chiara (Lion Hunter).
Lao purchased the horse for Hong Kong where Toronado has been represented by 23 individual winners of 67 races; three stakes winners including the Group 1 sprinter Victor The Winner.
There are several traits of the breed that make Toronado an attractive proposition for Hong Kong racing, Lao noting that “they are very tough, they have the right action, they are a good size with a strong girth and they handle the firm tracks.”
“They are robust and they have great temperaments which makes them so suitable for racing in Hong Kong.”
View the full article here: https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/edition/2025-03-04/five-things-we-learned-on-day-2-at-inglis-premier
The Straight – Bren O’Brien
At the weekend, Spirit Of Boom and So You Think became the fifth and sixth Australian stallions so far to register 100 individual winners for the 2024/25 season. It is a historically high number for this time of year. Run The Numbers digs into the background of this trend.
When Blake Shinn picked his way through the field to salute aboard Mighty at Sandown on Saturday, it represented a milestone 100th winner of the season for Spirit Of Boom.
It was far from the Eureka Stud stallion’s first seasonal century – he has now reached that mark in each of the past five Australian seasons, but he had never reached the milestone so early, just six months and one day since 2024/25 got underway.
It puts Queensland’s leading sire well ahead of pace to better his previous seasonal mark of 149, achieved in 2022/23. In that season, by early February, he had 81 winners. His century would not arrive until March 8.
Spirit Of Boom has had eight two-year-old winners, the most of any sire in Australia, and 20 three-year-old winners, with the vast proportion of his winners being four and over (72). Given that sire’s own race profile, it is not surprising to see his horses training on past their classic year.
He is not the only stallion on record pace in 2024/25. Swettenham Stud’s Toronado recently brought up his century in record time. He currently sits third when it comes to total Australian winners with 106. At the same point last season, he had 77, while two years ago it was only 59.
His rise, in terms of the volume of winners, has been one of the under-the-radar trends of the 2024/25 season. He remains on track to easily eclipse his previous overall seasonal best for Australian winners of 145, set last season
His total runners have also increased significantly, 212 at this point last season as compared to 273 currently, as he benefits from the big books he received in 2019 (197) and 2020 (210).
Unlike the four others to have reached the century mark this year, Toronado has had no assistance from his current two-year-old crop, only one of which has hit the track. A total of 27 of his winners are from his three-year-old crop while 79, including his three stakes winners in Australia this year, are four and older.
Unsurprisingly given it is where he is based, the majority of Toronado’s winners have been in Victoria, with 62 individual horses represented, 59 per cent of his overall total.
What is a quirk is that the most successful trainer in Australia this season when it comes to the progeny of Toronado has been Queensland-based Tony Gollan, with seven wins from two horses led by Torabella, who registered her fifth win of the season at Doomben on Saturday.
Less startling is that Gollan is also the most successful trainer of the progeny of Spirit Of Boom this season, with 23 wins from 18 individual horses across 2024/25 to date. Of Spirit Of Boom’s 100 Australian winners, 81 have been in Queensland.
So You Think became the sixth sire to notch the century of Australian winners when So Nataya won at Bunbury on Sunday. It is his seventh straight season of breaking that barrier, but by far his quickest ton, as he chases down his seasonal best of 149.
The other three stallions to have reached the century are familiar names, I Am invincible, Zoustar and Written Tycoon.
It is the seventh season in a row that I Am Invincible has reached the 100-winner mark by the halfway point of the season. He is currently on 123, which is 13 more than he had at this point of last season when he finished with 175.
Zoustar is on 121, nine fewer than he had halfway through last season when he equalled I Am Invincible’s record mark of 208 winners. Both have had slightly fewer runners – Vinnie 287 compared to 294 and Zoustar 298 compared to 300 – to the same point.
Both are trying to chase down Pride Of Dubai – currently on $17.2 million progeny earnings – for the Australian sires championship, with Zoustar on $14.5 million and I Am Invincible on $12.1 million.
Fourth overall, and fourth when it comes to winners, is Written Tycoon.
The Yulong resident has 105 Australian winners, which is nine more than he had at the same point of last season, although in the four previous seasons before that, he had cracked the century by halfway through the campaign.
Written Tycoon’s number of Australian runners has increased by around 10 per cent from 249 to 276 so far this season. All that growth has been from his current three-year-old crop, conceived during his one season at Arrowfield. His three-year-old runners to this point of the season have grown from 54 to 86 and his winners from 21 to 39.
As far as our records go back, there has never been a season where six stallions have surpassed 100 Australian winners by this point. Last season to this point, it was three, while it was two in the previous five seasons before that.
Deep Field (92), Snitzel (92) and Capitalist (91) are all poised to mark the milestone soon, while Better Than Ready, who had five individual winners across Australia on Saturday, is on 87, as is Dundeel.
Leading sires by Australian winners 2024/25
*Data Courtesy of Arion
View the full article https://thestraight.com.au/run-the-numbers-the-growing-band-of-sire-centurions/
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