Earlier this year after the Magic Millions Yearling Sale we published a story about a stallion that tends to polarise people when he comes up in discussion and we raised the prospect that evidence suggested he had a second career on the way as a broodmare sire and eight months down the track what was an idea is fast becoming fact.
Click here to read Everyone Deserves a Second Chance detailing the plethora of yearlings sold at Magic Millions this year from mares by Champion 2YO and Golden Slipper winner Sepoy.
There were 28 yearlings from mares by Sepoy in Book 1 and 2 and they were all sold with half of them selling for $200,000 or more.
When we wrote that story in January, the stats for Sepoy as a broodmare sire showed his daughters producing six stakes-placed runners among 17 winners.
Now he is sire of the dam of 40 winners worldwide including four stakes-winners and seven stakes-placed horses and those stakes-winners are as follows:
New Zealand based two year-old Group I winner Pignan (Staphanos (Jpn)
Undefeated Group III MRC Caulfield Guineas Prelude winner Steparty (Artie Schiller (USA)
Last season’s best WA two year-old filly Live to Tell (Territories (IRE), winner of the Group III WATC Gimcrack and second in the Group II Karrakatta Plate
Irish bred three year-old filly Evina (Kodiac), a stakes-winner in Italy last week
With five wins from five runs, Steparty has had the bar raised at every start so far and taken it all in his stride and if he was trained by one of the big stables and by a more commercial sire than Artie Schiller (USA), he would be the subject of desire for every studmaster in the land.
Do you own a Sepoy mare? If so you’d be feeling optimistic for the future!
