Astute bloodstock agent James Harron is hoping it's a case of 'third time lucky again' after he was the successful bidder for the highest priced Sepoy colt sold from the stallion's first crop at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Wednesday.
"In the last few years at this sale I bought the highest priced son of Fastnet Rock at the time and he turned out to be Foxwedge and we also bought the highest priced son of Snitzel at the time and he turned out to be Wandjina so hopefully we can do it again," Harron said.
Foxwedge was knocked down to Harron for $925,000 in 2010 and in 2012 he tasted Group I success in the William Reid Stakes while Wandjina was secured for $1 million in 2013 and recently took out the Group I Australian Guineas.
Sepoy's trainer Peter Snowden, and his son Paul, have been handed the job of training lot 283, a chestnut colt consigned from Turangga Farm, out of the Group I winning Canny Lad mare Ancient Song, that was knocked down to Harron and Snowden Racing for $1.6 million.
"I fell in love with him when I did my inspections of the farms," Harron said. "I thought he was an absolute fantastic physical specimen.
"I feel very lucky to have secured him for a group of my owners."
The September 6 (2013) foal is the seventh produced by Ancient Song, the dam of Lonhro's stakes-winning daughter Tampiko and multiple city winning mare Classics, a daughter of Commands.
