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1st Prix de Tour en Bessin Deauville, 7f .1400m
2nd Prix la Rochette Gr.3 ParisLongchamp, 7f . 1400m
2nd Prix Charles Pichegru Dieppe, 7f . 1400m
3rd Prix Thomas Bryon Jockey Club de Turquie Gr.3 Saint Cloud, 7f . 1400m
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1st Prix Texanita Gr.3 Chantilly, 6f . 1200m
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By Black Type Horse Racing, 8 May 2024
The top weanling on Day 2 at Riverside in Sydney was a Toronado x Atomic Pulse colt from Lustre Lodge which realised $320,000, to the extreme delight of Lustre’s Paige Churcher. “He’s a colt we brought here thinking we could get $100,000, maybe $120,000 for because he’s a beautiful moving colt by a sire that’s really on fire so we’re absolutely rapt,’’ Churcher said. “Honestly, I was just hoping I could get reserve back on him, we’re just ecstatic. He’s gone ahead in leaps and bounds and hopefully the purchaser gets a great result as well. He was very well found here all week, he did over 200 inspections and he just handled it all like a true professional. Toronado is standing the 2024 breeding season at Swettenham Stud for $88,000. Tuesday’s second-top lot was a Home Affairs x Extra Olives colt from Coolmore, which realised $260,000 to the bid of Fernrigg Farm. The colt became the highest-priced progeny of a first season sire at the sale, being by exciting young stallion and Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate Home Affairs. “We’re very excited with what the stallion is going to do leading into his first yearling crop,’’ Coolmore’s John Kennedy said. “He’s been full every season since he’s been to stud, we’ve heavily supported him with some of our best mares… we have very high aspirations for him and he really looks like he’s well on his way to reaching those heights.
By Black Type Horse Racing, 2 May 2024
In 2024, Swettenham Stud‘s headliner Toronado asserted himself as the number one active sire in Hong Kong, courtesy of the Group 1 success of Victor The Winner and emerging superstar Helios Express. High Chaparral’s classy sire-son continues to rise up the stallion ranks. This season Toronado has produced more Australian winners than ever before and is currently ahead of superstar sires Snitzel and So You Think for winners. Toronado will remain at a fee of $88,000 inc GST, a decision that was not taken lightly as the stallion continues to reach new levels. Boom sire Wootton Bassett‘s blazingly fast son Wooded returns to Swettenham following the sale of his half-sister in 2024 for €2.4 million.
Longchamp’s Gr1 Prix de l’Abbaye (1000m) hero, who is a full-brother to last year’s dominant Gr1 winning 2YO Bucanero Fuerte, remains at $22,000. Blue-blooded Group 1 sire Rubick ($27,500 inc GST) was Victoria’s leading sire of 3YO on earnings, wins and stakes wins last season, and he has continued on his successes this season with Erno’s Cube winning the Gr2 Reisling Stakes. In fact, Toronado ($88,000) and Written Tycoon (Private) are the only Victorian sires with more winners than Rubick this season. I Am Invincible‘s dual Stakes winning 2YO son I Am Immortal covered his largest book to date last season in his 4th year at stud on the back of some very positive feedback from trainers. From only a handful of runners, I Am Immortal has produced impressive debut winner I Am Velvet and stakes-placed filly Immortal Star, who defeated eventual Group 1 winner Broadsiding back in February. The Invincible Spirit line is in high demand and I Am Immortal presents as a value outcross with enormous upside as his first runners continue to hit the track. He will stand again for $13,750 inc GST. Also standing again is Puissance De Lune, a son of the influential Shamardal (USA), who will be available at a reduced fee of $8,800 inc GST. The talented grey has been represented by 183 runners, resulting in 93 individual winners of 246 races, including four stakes winners. Showing remarkable versatility, Puissance De Lune has produced winners in the distance range of 955 to 2600 metres.
ANZ Bloodstock News, May 3 2024
The Lindsay Park-trained La Pleine Lune (Puissance De Lune) posted an incredible debut performance at Warrnambool on Wednesday, taking out a 1200-metre event by a staggering nine lengths.
Partnered by Nash Rawiller, the youngster made all the running, pulling further and further clear to beat fellow newcomer Guerite (Shamus Award) with another length back to the third-placed Cachink (So You Think), who was also lining up for the first time.
“To see him win like that was a great thrill,” Ben Hayes, who trains the colt in partnership with his brothers JD and Will, said.
“He is very professional, and I think you saw that today. He jumped, was able to muster, and travelled. He might have been flattered by the way the track is playing. Still, he won by nine lengths, and few horses can do that.”
An $80,000 purchase for Victor Lee from the Collingrove Stud draft at the 2023 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Showcase Session, La Pleine Lune is the first foal of the Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) mare Cinq Dames.
A winner at Mornington and Geelong in 13 starts, Cinq Dames is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Fast Cash (Charge Forward), out of the Choisir (Danehill Dancer) mare The Loan Express, who ran third in the Queen Mary Stakes (Gr 2, 5f) at Royal Ascot and was fourth in the Phoenix Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) at the Curragh.
Cinq Dames was sold on Inglis Digital in 2022 for $6,500 to Melissa Ick when carrying a sister to La Pleine Lune. Snitzel’s daughter was not covered last spring.
Puissance De Lune has one lot at the upcoming Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale, a colt out of the winning Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) mare Absolutely Panda’s, catalogued as Lot 1201.
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Resolute Racing’s Woodshauna gives Al Shaqab’s Wooded a first Group 1 winner
Woodshauna provided his sire Wooded with a first Group 1 winner when springing a surprise in the Prix Jean Prat at Deauville. The Francis Graffard-trained three-year-old was carrying the colours of John Stewart’s Resolute Racing for the first time, with the operation having bought the colt for £625,000 from Al Shaqab at last month’s Goffs […]