There’s nothing like a Golden Slipper winner to put an emerging farm firmly on the radar for all yearling buyers.
Located in prime horse country near Denman in the Hunter Valley, Kingstar Farm is owned by prominent thoroughbred breeder Matthew Sandblom, who has quickly made an impact on Australia’s greatest two year-old race, the Golden Slipper.
He shared in the ownership of Golden Slipper winner and now leading sire Capitalist and more recently bred and sold the 2021 Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2YO Stay Inside under his Kingstar Farm banner.
Kingstar Farm will present a draft of 11 yearlings for sale at the Gold Coast by a range of popular sires including three by rising star Russian Revolution and two by Capitalist.
“We had over 60 inspections on Kingstar and there have been a lot of buyers inspecting on the complex already,” said Conor Phelan of Kingstar Farm.
“Kingstar is only a young farm and it has been such a thrill to see our “star inside crown” brand on the Magic Millions promotions courtesy of Stay Inside.
“This is only our second Magic Millions Yearling Sale and the bar has been set pretty high, but we’ve brought up a draft of good types that we think lives up to expectations.”
The star of the show for Kingstar is undoubtedly Lot 325, the half-sister by Russian Revolution to Champion 2YO Stay Inside, a winner of $2.2million.
A quality filly bred on similar lines to Stay Inside, who is also by a grand-son of Redoute’s Choice in Extreme Choice, the star filly is the third foal from Nothin’ Leica Storm, who comes from the family of Caulfield Guineas winner Wonderful World.
Additional highlights are as follows:
Lot 109 Colt Capitalist x Hidden Attraction, by Hidden Dragon
Full brother to talented stakes-placed three year-old Sneaky Shark, who was second in the Karaka Million last year and is now in Sydney being trained by John O’Shea and scored a great first up win at Canterbury on Friday night. Dam is a half-sister to dual Group I winning sprinter Atomic Force.
Lot 184 Colt Russian Revolution x Kuchinskaya, by Red Dazzler
Half-brother to two winners from a prolific Black Type family that has produced stakes-winners by Russian Revolution’s sire Snitzel in Immortal Love and Ducimus.
Lot 299 Colt Russian Revolution x Munjai by Trusting
Second foal of a winning three-quarter sister to Listed ATC Breeders Plate winner Whittington from SW Maha Chakri.
Lot 765 Filly Menari x Aunt Mimi, by More Than Ready (USA)
One of only two fillies in the sale by exciting young sire Menari and is a three-quarter sister to Group III SA Fillies Classic winner Mimi’s Award from Aumt Mimi, an unraced daughter of SW Strawberry Field.
Lot 878 Filly Deep Field x Coral Reef, by Galileo (IRE)
Half-sister to Group III placed Miss Moana and stakes-placed Hollywood Mo and is from a half-sister to SW Chevauchee. Her 2YO full sister Ningaloo Star sold for 135k at this sale last year and has shown good ability in her only trial finishing second at Randwick in November before spelling with a view to the autumn.
See the draft at Stable Q 20 -26, QA 7-8.
