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American Pharoah, Justify To Shuttle To Coolmore Australia For 2021 Southern Hemisphere Breeding Season

The Coolmore Australia stallion roster for 2021 sees the introduction of one of the very best proven sires in Europe and one of the very best 2-year-olds in Australia.

“We are very excited to welcome Wootton Bassett, a Group 1-winning champion 2-year-old on the track and one of the most exciting sires in Europe, to our roster.” said Coolmore Australia's sales and nominations manager, Colm Santry. “He will join Redoute's Choice's dual Group1-winning son King's Legacy, in a line-up headed by multiple champion sire Fastnet Rock, who is coming off one of the most successful seasons of his illustrious career.”

Wootton Bassett – with a first crop of only 23 foals conceived at a fee of just €6,000 – exploded on the sire scene courtesy of son Almanzor, triple Group 1-winning champion of his generation, whose first Australasian yearlings this year proved a great hit with buyers.

Wootton Bassett has also sired the likes of dual Group 1-winning filly Audarya, conceived at a fee of only €4,000, and Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye (1000m.) winning colt Wooded, from a €6,000 fee, while his 2-year-old crop of last year included Group 2 winner and 2,000 Guineas candidate Chindit.

In such esteem is Wootton Bassett held that in Europe he currently commands a fee of €100,000 (AUS$155,000), highlighting the great value he affords Australian breeders at his introductory fee of only AUS$71,500.

King's Legacy needs little introduction, winner as he was last year of both the Group 1 Sires' Produce and Group 1 Champagne Stakes. The most accomplished juvenile of his generation, with the impeccable good looks to cost AUS$1,400,000 as a yearling, he is also the only son of Redoute's Choice ever to win multiple Group 1 races at two. Closely related to Not A Single Doubt, from the family of successful sire Snippets, King's Legacy will stand his first season at a fee of AUS$33,000.

These two new boys join a roster laden with proven Group 1 sires like Fastnet Rock, Pierro, So You Think and American Pharoah, last-named, along with Justify, U.S. Triple Crown winners at great-value fees.

With a support cast of outstanding sprinters like Yes Yes Yes and Merchant Navy, Group One Guineas winners like Churchill, Magna Grecia and Saxon Warrior joining explosive two-year-old stars like Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes winner Calyx, Blue Diamond winner Pride Of Dubai and Golden Slipper winner Vancouver, the Coolmore Australia roster really does offer a sire to suit every mare at a price for every pocket.

Sire 2021 Fee (inc. GST)

Adelaide – AUS$5,500

American Pharoah – AUS$49,500

Calyx – AUS$13,750

Churchill – AUS$22,000

Fastnet Rock – AUS$165,000

Justify – AUS$55,000

King's Legacy (NEW) – AUS$33,000

Magna Grecia – AUS$19,250

Merchant Navy – AUS$33,000

Pierro – AUS$110,000

Pride Of Dubai – AUS$22,000

Saxon Warrior – AUS$13,750

So You Think – AUS$77,000

Vancouver – AUS$22,000

Wootton Bassett (NEW) – AUS$71,500

Yes Yes Yes – AUS$38,500

Rubick and Highland Reel will stand at Swettenham Stud in association with Coolmore

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Toast To Vino Rosso: Filly Out Of Twisted Adage Adds To Sire’s Growing Reputation

Throughout the breeding season, the Paulick Report will be sharing photos of foals from the first crop of Spendthrift Farm's Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso in the “Toast to Vino Rosso” series.

This time around, we're taking a look at a filly from the first crop of Vino Rosso out of the Hard Spun mare Twisted Adage.

This filly was born on Feb. 25 at St. Simon Place in Lexington, Ky., bred by Robert Slack.

Tommy Wente boards the filly and her dam at St. Simon Place for the breeder, and he said Slack is a fan of the cross between Curlin and Hard Spun. As a son of Curlin, Vino Rosso fit the bill for the mating.

The ensuing foal got rave reviews from visitors, and as Wente asked around to others with Vino Rosso foals on the ground, he found he was far from alone in being happy with what they had.

“I said, 'Robert, this is just a fantastic filly. She's really nice,'” Wente said, recalling a discussion with the breeder. “She kept growing and growing, and he asked me which one's my favorite baby out there, and I said, 'It's gotta be the Vino Rosso, hands down.' Then, I started hearing more and more about the Vinos, and it seemed like everyone's getting good ones. You see pictures online, and they're all the same way. He's just really stamping his babies.”

Vino Rosso, a 6-year-old son of Curlin, stands at Spendthrift Farm for an advertised fee of $25,000.

Vino Rosso won won six of 15 starts and earned $4,803,125 on the racetrack. In addition to his signature Breeders' Cup Classic score, the stallion picked up victories in the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes, and the G2 Wood Memorial Stakes.

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Grade 3 Winner Ocho Ocho Ocho Sold To Stand In Peru

Grade 3 stakes winner Ocho Ocho Ocho will stand at Haras San Pablo in Lima, Peru, starting in the 2021 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

By Street Sense, out of the Horse Chestnut (SAF) mare Winner, Ocho Ocho Ocho captured the Breeders' Cup day undercard Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes impressively by 5 3/4 lengths (run on dirt due to weather conditions) and the 1 1/16-mile $1-million G3 Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes, beating Grade 1-placed Mr. Z in a tenacious fight, and showing the same E Speed Figure (105) as Goldencents and Gunnevara when they won the same race. Ocho Ocho Ocho remained undefeated as a 2-year-old and is, to date, the best 2-year-old Street Sense colt by earnings.

At three, he ran third to Carpe Diem in the 1 1/8-mile G1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, and he arrived 1 1/2 lengths behind stallion Force the Pass in the G3 Penn Mile Stakes. In the Blue Grass Stakes, he registered a faster E Speed Figure (102) than Vekoma, Brody's Cause, Flameaway, McCraken and Free Drop Billy; all active U.S. stallions that also ran that race in following editions.

At four, after two consecutive seven- and four-month periods away from the track, he came second in a Santa Anita allowance optional claiming race to stallion and elite sprinter Lord Nelson before the latter won three consecutive Grade 1 races during the following four months.

Ocho Ocho Ocho raced from ages two to five, and he completed a 3-1-1 record from 11 starts with earnings of $852,360. He holds the fifth-best Class Perfomance Index (CPI) registered by Street Sense colts, only behind McKinzie, Concert Tour, Hallowed Crown, and Maxfield.

Ocho Ocho Ocho is a half-brother to Private Ensign (by A.P. Indy), placed in the G2 Davona Dale Stakes.

His first dam, Winner, sold for $700,000 in 2014, and she is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Animal Spirits. She broke her maiden in her debut by 7 3/4 lengths at Belmont Park, and she completed a record of 1-1-1 in only three starts at Belmont and Saratoga.

His second dam, Pennant Champion, a $700,000 RNA in 2006, is a full-sister to Grade 1 winners Miner's Mark and Traditionally, as well as multiple Grade 1-placed Our Emblem. She is also a half-sister to multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire My Flag, the dam of champion Storm Flag Flying.

Pennant Champion is an extraordinary second dam, having produced eight stakes winner/placed horses, among them Ocho Ocho Ocho, Divine Oath, Auntie Joy, and Interactif, from four different mares. Ocho Ocho Ocho has Hall of Famer and 1996 Kentucky Broodmare of the year Personal Ensign as his third dam.

“He is going to be an extraordinary match for our pool of mares during the following years” said Eduardo Villaran Gallagher, who runs Haras San Pablo. “Ocho Ocho Ocho showed both amazing sprint speed and stamina, with a pedigree geared towards stamina. He is a son of leading sire Street Sense, and has a very strong female family that will probably be represented in the 2021 Kentucky Derby by Dynamic One, who recently came second in the G2 Wood Memorial by a head, having Personal Ensign as fourth dam”.

Haras San Pablo, a leading stud farm in Peru, has bred over 55 Group 1 winners in its more than 40 years of existence, with seven winners of the Peruvian Derby and more than 60 Postin Awards (Peruvian equivalent to Eclipse Awards).

Ocho Ocho Ocho arrived late last year at Ocala Stud and covered 5 mares in 2020.

Bloodstock agent Carlos S.E. Moore brokered the deal.

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Street Boss, Frosted Shuttling To Darley Australia For 2021 Southern Hemisphere Season

Fees have been announced for the 20 Grade/Group 1-winning Darley stallions who will stand in New South Wales and Victoria for the 2021 breeding season.

Heading this year's roster is the champion sire-son duo of Exceed And Excel and his world champion sprinter son Bivouac.

Following a stellar 24 months both on the racetrack and in the sales ring, where Exceed And Excel was responsible for a career-best $2.1 million colt earning him the title of leading sire by average at this month's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, Exceed And Excel headlines the roster at a fee of AUS$132,000 inc GST. His electrifying triple Group 1-winning son Bivouac will stand his first season at Kelvinside at a fee of AUS$66,000 inc GST.

Relocating to Kelvinside this season is Street Boss (AUS$55,000 inc GST), on the back of his ever-increasing demand as an elite sire of 2-year-olds. As the sire of G1 ATC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Anamoe, as well as G1 Winterbottom Stakes winner Elite Street, Street Boss is one of only four Australian stallions to sire multiple G1 winners this season.

The roster includes a new trio of shuttle stallions made up of the best European juvenile in 25 years, Pinatubo (AUS$44,000 inc GST), who joins the Kelvinside roster in New South Wales, with Northwood Park's Victorian roster receiving a major boost with the additions of the world's highest-ranked racehorse of 2020, Ghaiyyath (AUS$27,500 inc GST), and the undefeated champion 2-year-old Earthlight (AUS$22,000 inc GST).

Standing their second seasons after support from some of the smartest minds in the breeding business are three other champions: Microphone (AUS$38,500 inc GST), crowned Australia's champion 2-year-old of 2019, Too Darn Hot (AUS$44,000 inc GST), the champion 2-year-old and 3-year-old of his year, and Blue Point (AUS$44,000 inc GST), Britain's champion sprinter and the only horse ever to win three Group 1 sprints at Royal Ascot.

“It's hard to think of a farm that's retired seven champions to stud in a two-year period,” said Darley Australia's Head of Sales, Andy Makiv.

“To have these horses standing in Australia gives us the potential to embark on a golden era.”

And it isn't only the stellar additions over the past two years who provide strength and depth to the roster.

“Lonhro (AUS$66,000 inc GST) still commands enormous respect among breeders, there is also Brazen Beau (AUS$49,500 inc GST), who has just had a breakthrough with his first G1 winner, Frosted (AUS$44,000 inc GST), who has had two stakes winners and another two stakes performers from his first nine runners in Australia, and Street Boss, whose G1-winning son Anamoe might just be the best 2-year-old in the country,” Makiv said.

Complementing the roster are sons of breed-shaping sires Medaglia d'Oro, whose highest-rated son Astern (AUS$16,500 inc GST) is already the sire of a first-crop five-length stakes winner, plus Kermadec (AUS$11,000 inc GST) who, at the same point in his career as his own sire Teofilo, is profiling well ahead having already produced the dual G1-winning filly Montefilia. Kermadec moves to Northwood Park giving Victorian breeders access to a G1 sire in a jurisdiction where his progeny has sold particularly well and where he has highly promising horses in the leading stables.

First-crop weanlings by world champion sprinter Harry Angel are regularly being described by stud masters as 'the best from their mare'. The son of one of Europe's leading sires, Dark Angel, returns to New South Wales at a fee of AUS$16,500 inc GST.

“We're constantly saying that the Darley stallions win, they sell and they get you to the big days, because ultimately that's what we're seeing, that's what our clients strive to achieve, and we believe our roster will provide every breeder, at all levels, those opportunities,” said Makiv.

For a full list of fees and locations click here.

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