Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2022 i Turf Monthly

Palace Pier joins the Darley roster this season as another high profile prospect who deserves his place among the best the thoroughbred world has to offer. The quality of the Darley bloodstock is outstanding but overseas success has never been a measure to their suitability in Australia. In fact, I recall writing a piece some years back that suggested that shuttle stallions who were close to the top of the UK first season sire list were unlikely to figure in the top 10 in Australia at the same stage. Whether this still holds true is another question. None of this detracts from the potential of Palace Pier. A world champion miler, a five time Group 1 winner, unbeaten as a 2yo and perhaps the best son of a top stallion…

Stay Inside is pretty much the Holy Grail of first season sires; a Golden Slipper winning colt. He stands his first season at Newgate for $77,000 putting him in the top echelon of stallions at stud in Australia, certainly in terms of the Freshman sires. Golden Slipper winners have always been highly valued at stud, and while we have seen some wonderful successes, the Slipper is no guarantee that a stallion will have a profitable career. As a recent Golden Slipper analogy, for every Capitalist whose fee has almost doubled, there is Vancouver whose fee has halved. Interestingly we saw Farnan go to stud last year with Stay Inside this year. The last time two consecutive Golden Slipper winning colts went to stud was a decade ago with Pierro and…

Wild Ruler is a Group 1 winning son of Snitzel who joins quite a stunning roster of stallions at Newgate Farm this season. He joins a total of 25 sons of that stallion who are at stud in Australia this season which rivals the domination of the great Danehill at the height of his popularity. With so many sons of Snitzel at stud, it becomes quite difficult to stand out from the others and offer something unique for broodmare owners. Certainly, the racetrack performance of Wild Ruler ticks all of the boxes for commercial success, but is that enough? The colt won the Nursery Stakes over 1000m at Randwick at his first start in December 2019. After a spell and missing the Golden Slipper, he returned with a second to…

The thoroughbred is an amazing creature. Its history also reflects the living history of society throughout the years. One such example is this month’s edition of TURF MONTHLY. Our Freshman Sires series this month talks of a new stallion in Tiger Of Malay. His family traces to a mare called Dark Queen who was the dam of that star galloper, Taj Rossi. With Spring in the air, we were on the lookout for a story that would fit well with our favourite part of the racing season. We have written about Taj Rossi in previous editions but another interesting part of Tiger Of Malay’s pedigree is that we see another wonderful galloper in Red Anchor appear in his tail female line. These two gallopers must rate among the best 3yo’s…

Portland Sky is this season’s newcomer at Widden Stud in NSW. The stud continues to expand its impressive list of largely unproven stallions across their two State operations. The stallion becomes the second son of Deep Field to go to stud with the other being the Newgate stallion Cosmic Force who is approaching his third season at Newgate this year. It will be interesting to see if the first foals of that stallion, who stands for $11,000 will have an impact on the future of Portland Sky. Such can be the fickleness of the breeding industry, and the misleading nature at times of tools such as Nicking theories, that some ideas will be tempered by such comparisons. That is not to say that lessons cannot be learned from similar sirelines,…

Tiger Of Malay comes to Newgate Farm to stand alongside his sire, Extreme Choice. This makes Tiger Of Malay the third son of that stallion that we are looking at in 2022 as part of our Freshman series. He also stands alongside Stay Inside, the Golden Slipper winner but at a fee of $16,500 compared to the $77,000 of Stay Inside, Tiger Of Malay is unlikely to get the same quality of mare as his better performed colleague. That is not to say that Tiger of Malay was poorly performed. In fact, it is quite the contrary but nonetheless his performances will inevitably draw comparison with Stay Inside. Tiger Of Malay started his career by winning the Kirkham at Randwick on 20 October over 1000m. He settled midfield but finished…

Alister was foaled in 1947, a son of the imported British stallion Whirlaway from a mare called New Flower by Nuffield. Everything about the colt was steeped in history. He was bred was Alfred Owen Ellison, better known as AO. Ellison had been born in Queensland on 1 January 1903, a son of a Methodist minister. He was educated at Newington College in Sydney and had a distinguished academic career culminating in graduating from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts (Law) with Honours in 1927. Having served as an articled clerk for Robson and Colwishaw during his studies, Ellison started his own practice, AO Ellison and Co almost immediately upon graduation. Commencing by specialising in industrial relations and occupational health and safety, the firm quickly expanded into insurance litigation…

Profiteer is the first commercial son of Capitalist to go to stud making him an interesting proposition for many breeders. Capitalist, the 2016 Golden Slipper winner went to stud in 2017 with an immediate impact. Himself a representative of a new sire line in Written Tycoon, Capitalist hit the headlines producing Champagne Stakes winner, Captivant and Black Opal winner Kalashnikov in his first crop. As a result, Capitalist who also stands at Newgate has seen his fee rise to $99,000 to rate among our most expensive and perhaps most promising young stallions. The colt made his debut at Flemington over 1100m on 21 December 2020 in a 2yo handicap. Profiteer led and easily extended to dominate the race, winning untroubled by almost three lengths from a Winning Rupert colt in…

Victor Ludorum is Latin for the overall champion in a sports competition, especially at a school or college. While his racing career may not have put him quite in the champion league, he was an outstanding racehorse befitting his Latin roots. He was an unbeaten 2yo and multiple Group 1 winner from one of the great female families in the world. There is certainly a lot to like about him, and he seems very affordably priced by Darley who should be able to attract plenty of interest in this Freshman stallion. On the track Victor Ludorum started his career by winning a 2yo maiden at Longchamp in September over a mile. Two weeks later he won over the same distance at Chantilly. He then lined up in the Group 1…