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Broadwater poised for further success

24th Jan 2006

BROADWATER Farm enjoyed their best ever Classic Sale in 2005, accounting for three of the top ten lots and heading the vendor table with a massive $70,100 average for ten yearlings sold.

Stud owner Craig Anderson knows this will be a hard act to follow but remains hopeful. “Last year was the best Classic sale we’ve had, he says. “It’ll just be nice to achieve the same results again if possible - we might get up to that mark, you can always hope.”

The Scone based farm have already made headlines this season as consignors of the Group 1 1000 Guineas heroine Mnemosyne (2004 Easter $400,000), who is currently joint favourite with God’s Own (2004 Classic $220,000) for the Doncaster Handicap at Easter.

Among his 18-strong draft at this year’s Classic, Anderson pinpoints an eye-catching colt by Danehill Dancer (lot 140).

“He’s a very attractive well-grown first foal and being out of a half-sister to Jet Spur makes him pretty exciting,” he says.

The John O’Shea trained Jet Spur (2004 Easter $180,000) won the VRC Dodo Sprint (Gr 2) and MRC L’Oreal Paris Plate (Gr 3) in Melbourne this spring and is set to line up in the Lightening Stakes at Flemington next month after impressing in his barrier trial at Rosehill last week.

On offer during Monday’s second session is lot 425, a colt by promising young Danehill sire Commands. Anderson says: “He’s a thick set neat type of horse, well-grown.” The August born colt is the second foal out of the Stakes placed Bin Ajwaad mare Dance Class (NZ).

Buyers can also expect to find other attractive colts in the consignment by sires such as Choisir, Peintre Celebre, Rock Of Gibraltar, Catbird and Grass Wonder.

Several of the Broadwater fillies appeal, including lot 134 by Johannesburg out of a full-sister to Play Station. On paper she looks likely two-year-old type, a fact endorsed by Anderson who says: “ She’s definitely a precocious type, a nice rounded filly typical of her family.”

Another filly he describes as attractive is lot 157, who is by Fasliyev from a good American family. The filly’s dam won four times in the US and is a daughter of a full-sister to dual Grade 1 winner Hidden Light, dam of Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Artie Schiller.