It’s been a busy and rewarding yearling sale season for Blue Gum Farm and it’s not quite over with a select draft of seven to be offered on Sunday April 21 at the Inglis Gold Yearling Sale with the consignment featuring the only two yearlings in the sale by exciting young sire Tassort.
Tassort is on top of the Australian First Season Sires List by earnings with five winners from 14 runners and his star performer is Group I ATC Sires Produce Stakes winner Manaal, who started her season winning the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes last spring and has danced every dance since.
The Michael Freedman trained filly will look to stretch her talent out to 1600m on Saturday when she contests the $1million Group I ATC Champagne Stakes and a victory could put her right in the picture to be crowned Champion 2YO.
The two Tassort youngsters in the Blue Gum draft are both colts offered on behalf of Braebrook Thoroughbreds and both are from the family of their champion filly Streama, a four time Group I winner of $2.6million.
The remainder of the Blue Gum draft is as follows:
Lot 31 Filly Frosted (USA) x My Fire Phoenix, by The Factor (USA)
Second foal of a metro winning half-sister to stakes-winner It’sarayday from the family of Group winners Musidora, Tulip and Sacred Eye.
Lot 42 Colt Royal Meeting (IRE) x Puppetry, by Keep the Faith
By the sire of G1 Blue Diamond winner Hayasugi and is a half-brother to two winners from the family of Australian Horse of the Year Northerly and Group I winning $5.6million earner Overpass.
Lot 44 Colt Pariah x Rainbow Bridge (NZ), by Ekraar (USA)
Half-brother to a winner from a winning full sister to four time Group I winner Shez Sinsational, the dam of Group winners Sinarahma and House of Cartier.
Lot 63 Filly Dirty Work x Testa the Water, by Testa Rossa
Dam has had six foals to race all winners and is a half-sister to the dam of brilliant Group II winning sire Rich Enuff, who is by Dirty Work’s sire Written Tycoon.
Lot 102 Filly Ghaiyyath (IRE) x Dubai Beauty, by Redoute’s Choice
From the first crop of European Horse of the Year Ghaiyyath and is first foal of royally bred unraced Redoute’s Choice mare, whose grand-dam is blue hen Al Anood, the dam of dual Group I winner and sire Pride of Dubai, Group II winner Enaad and SW’s Ghanaati and Al Aneed. From elite European female family that has produced champion sires Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.
