Collingrove Stud are being kept busy this week with parades now underway for the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale next Monday and Tuesday with their draft of eight yearlings by eight different sires offering plenty of diversity and including a filly by exciting young sire Tassort and a colt closely related to promising 2YO Skyhook.
Tassort has done a brilliant job off a low base in siring Group I winning filly Manaal and Group II winning filly Ameena from his first crop and was super popular with broodmare owners last spring at his increased fee of $38,500.
A stallion on an upswing he has only three fillies in this sale with Lot 120 the first of them to be offered.
From well bred Flying Spur mare Sessantesimo, she is a half-sister to three winners and her dam is a full sister to stakes-winner Traveston Girl. This filly’s grand-dam Milande is a full sister to triple Group I winner Defier tracing back to the family of Champion 3YO Filly Triscay.
Group II placed Written Tycoon colt Skyhook will be trying to earn a start in the Golden Slipper when he goes around in the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes on Saturday and Lot 87 is bred along very similar lines.
This stylish chestnut colt is by Written Tycoon’s proven stakes-producing sire son Rich Enuff from Redan Lane, a placed half-sister by Flying Spur to Madam Andree, the dam of Group III winner Anders, stakes-winner Ostraka and also the dam of Skyhook.
It’s a top class international female family that has been nurtured in Australia by Arrowfield Stud and this colt makes plenty of appeal for the Hong Kong market given he is a half-brother to the smart Hong Kong winner Same to You.
Click here for the full draft with highlights below:
Lot 33 Filly King’s Legacy x Muchas Coronas, by Onemorenomore
From the second crop of King’s Legacy, who has already sired four winners and two stakes horses in Steel Trap and Born to be Royal. Second foal of a winning half-sister to stakes-winner Ef Troop. A late foal but she is already a lovely big filly and will continue to improve.
Lot 104 Colt Nicconi x Royal Singer, by Royal Academy (USA)
By a proven Group I sire and is a half-brother to five winners. A strong and classy colt with great movement and a superb temperament.
Lot 134 Colt I Am Immortal x Sienna Sunrise (NZ), by Bertolini (USA)
Half-brother to recent Moonee Valley winner Al Duca. From an outstanding producer that has left seven winners from eight foals to race and is also the grand-dam of Group III placed Party for Two. Comes from top class Kiwi female family that has produced Group I winners Gee I Jane, and Banchee and Katie Lee, the dam of this season’s Group III winner Public Attention.
Lot 191 Filly Fierce Impact (Jpn) x Under the Stars, by Snitzel
From second crop of multiple Group I winner Fierce Impact and is a half-sister to a winner being the third foal of an unraced daughter of Group III winner Sky Love and sibling to the dams of Group winners Amor Victorius, Sky Command and stakes-winner A Lot More Love. A filly that we at Collingrove all have a lot of time for - there's heaps of Snitzel about her!!! Great attitude with a walk that never ends!!! She will make a super racehorse.
Lot 249 Colt Royal Meeting (IRE) x Ashima, by Olympic Glory (IRE)
By the sire of Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes winner Hayasugi. Second foal of an unraced half-sister to stakes-winners Road Trippin’ and Crack a Roadie from the family of Group I winners Porto Roca, Bluebird the Word, Monterosso and Silent Sedition. A very nice-moving colt who is sure to improve.
Lot 302 Colt Hanseatic x Comearoundsundown, by Not a Single Doubt
From the second crop of Hanseatic, already the sire of two winners and two stakes horses in Rohesia and Bermondsey. Half-brother to a winner from stakes-placed Comearoundsundown, a half-sister to HK Group II winner Galaxy Patch. A strong great-moving individual who is sure to have many admirers.