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How To Breed A Championship Winner

13th Apr 2015

The Championships at Royal Randwick in Sydney attracted the eyes of the world last week and it pays to look closely if you want learn how to breed a championship winner.

The breeders of the winners of the two richest races during The Championships both started their journey to glory with a broodmare from Inglis’ Newmarket sale ring in Sydney.

“Criterion and Kermadec join the likes of Black Caviar, Sepoy and So You Think whose dams have proven valuable jewels since they were purchased from an Inglis Broodmare Sale here in Sydney,” points out Jonathan D’Arcy, Inglis’ National Bloodstock Director.

$3 million Doncaster winner Kermadec was in utero when his dam Hy Fuji was purchased by Wentwood Grange in Sydney, while $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Criterion was conceived only months after his dam Mica’s Pride was bought by Sir Owen Glenn from Inglis.

Kieran Moore Bloodstock, on behalf of Graham Bax, secured Sir Owen Glenn the stakes producing Australian bred mare Mica’s Pride (by Bite The Bullet) for $300,000 in foal to Reset at the 2009 Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale at Newmarket.

Mica’s Pride gave foal to a Reset colt, later named Calibrate, in early September before being mated with Widden Stud’s young stallion Sebring. Sir Owen Glenn then selected to export the in foal Mica’s Pride and her foal at foot to New Zealand in December 2009.

In October 2010, 16 months after being purchased from Inglis, Mica’s Pride gave birth at Blandford Lodge to Criterion, a three-time Group 1 winner and earner of $5,695,706 for Sir Owen Glenn.

Kermadec’s story for breeders Wentwood Grange also started at an Inglis Broodmare Sale in Sydney.

The Hawkins family of Wentwood Grange purchased the Australian bred Hy Fuji (by Fuji Kiseki) for $46,000 in foal to Teofilo at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale.

“We bought her half-sister The Quarewan for similar money at the same broodmare sale a few years earlier and her progeny sold well and raced well including At The Heads for Danny O’Brien, so when we saw Hy Fuji in Sydney we just had to have her,” recalls Des Hawkins.

Hy Fuji was exported to the Hawkins’ property Wentwood Grange in New Zealand shortly after the broodmare sale. Later that year gave birth to a Teofilo colt that would subsequently be named Kermadec, winner of the $3 million ATC Doncaster Handicap last week.

613 mares have been catalogued for the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale. Weanlings will be offered on Sunday 3 May, while the mares will follow on 4, 5 & 6 May. All four days of the auction will begin at the earlier time of 10:30am.

The complete catalogue is available online at inglis.com.au and on the Inglis Sales iPad App. Hard-copy catalogues are available at Inglis’ Newmarket sale complex and can be requested from the office on +61 2 9399 7999 or email catalogue@inglis.com.au