2015 Australian Horse of the Year Dissident might not be flavour of the month in the Hunter Valley anymore, but he’s more than welcome at Riverdene Farm having sired 87 Australian winners to sit just outside the Top 20 sires by winners for this season and one of those winners is another success story for Inglis Digital.
Astute country trainer Paul Shailer snapped up promising three year-old Dissident gelding Passionate Rebel for just $11,000 from the 2023 Inglis Digital May (early) Sale after he had posted two seconds from four starts.
He won easily at his second run for his new trainer at Port Macquarie last month and backed up at Taree on Thursday to win again as a short priced favourite taking his prizemoney in excess of $50,000 and there are more wins to come!
Passionate Rebel is the second winner from Magic Obsession, a placed half-sister to Group III winner Red Excitement from the family of Golden Slipper winners Capitalist and Merlene.
Dissident is a proven source of stakes performers having sired six stakes-winners in total including current season stakes-winners - Diss is Dramatic, a Group III winner in New Zealand and Resolute, a stakes-winner in Malaysia - as well as another six stakes-placed horses, not to mention strong stayer Outlandos.
Trained by John Sargent, Outlandos has won two of his past three starts in Sydney metro Saturday races and has banked nearly $700,000 in prizemoney with seven wins from 40 starts.
Dissident is priced affordably at $5,500 for a stallion that gets his winners week in and week out.
