The Woodside Park roster for this spring is quality through and through featuring a Golden Slipper winning sire and the only Group winning son of Frankel at stud in Victoria.
Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver is new for 2022 and the Champion 2YO by Medaglia D’Oro (USA) comes to Victoria as a proven sire with nine stakes-winners to his credit, five of them Group winners.
“He’s an ideal stallion to take advantage of the new Super Vobis scheme and is very good physically with a fantastic temperament,” said Woodside Park’s Mark Dodemaide.
Vancouver sired 69 winners of over $5million last season highlighted three stakes-winners – Group II winners Overpass and Vangelic as well as Canadian Dancer.
The Bjorn Baker trained colt Overpass won the Group II ATC Expressway Stakes last season at three and amassed over $870,000 in prizemoney, proving competitive in elite open company Group I sprints at his final three runs of the season on less than ideal very heavy tracks.
Being targeted towards the $10million ATC Golden Eagle for four year-olds, Overpass is not the only good Vancouver in the Bjorn Baker stable as he also puts the polish on promising filly Wingardium.
She created a big impression winning at Randwick in June and has been entered for the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas.
“Vancouver has done well with Danehill line mares and three of his five Group II winners are bred this way including Overpass, who is from a daughter of Exceed and Excel,” Dodemaide revealed.
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Vancouver stands at a fee of $15,400.
Delaware (GB) is new to Woodside this spring and is a fast son of champion sire Frankel that won as a 2YO over 1200m at Deauville and trained on at three to win the Group III Prix Daphnis over 1600m and a Listed race in the lead up to the Guineas.
“He was a speed horse that sat on the pace and gave a good kick, something we see as ideal for Australia,” Mark Dodemaide.
“Tough, sound and competitive in North America, he clocked 1.33.67 to post a track record at Aqueduct in a Listed race on the grass.”
Bred by Juddmonte Farms, who bred and stand his sire Frankel, Delaware has a superb female family that has delivered elite success for many years. He is a half-brother to stakes-winner Environs from Zatsfine, a half-sister by Oasis Dream to Group I winners Proviso and Byword as well as Group II winner Finche and this season’s stakes-winner Baratti, the latter two horses both sired by Frankel.
This year’s Epsom Derby winner Desert Crown also appears on the page highlighting an exceptional family that consistently produces elite performers over all distances.
Frankel recently sired his 100th stakes-winner, achieving the feat in the exact same time frame as Danehill, who forged a worldwide sire dynasty and it seems only a matter of time before Frankel follows suit with Delaware the trailblazer here in Australia.
Delaware stands at a fee of $9,900.
When Foxwedge arrived at Woodside Park he had sired 11 stakes-winners and now he has 25 on the board – five of them Group I winners - and that fact has not been lost on broodmare owners as the son of Fastnet Rock has covered 100 plus books of mares in his past two seasons.
An attractive stallion that invariably produces good looking offspring, Foxwedge has produced great results for his supporters.
“Renowned South Australian breeders Mill Park have sent six mares to Foxwedge and from those six have bred Group I winning South African Champion Sprinter Run Fox Run, last season stakes-winners Foxy Frida and Harleymoven (sold for big money to Hong Kong) and Legless Lady, who has won her last three starts in Saturday metro races in Adelaide,” said Dodemaide.
Foxwedge stands at a fee of $11,000.
The Written Tycoon sireline goes from strength to strength and with over 68% winners to runners Rich Enuff is proving a reliable source of fast and precocious performers.
The sire of over $5million in progeny earnings highlighted by Group III winner Dosh and stakes-winner Plutocrat, Rich Enuff covered 96 mares last spring. He has an up and comer to watch this spring in exciting 3YO filly Bubble Palace, who has won two from two for Daniel Bowman.
“Rich Enuff works really well with the Danehill line mares and most of his better winners are bred that way,” Dodemaide said.
Rich Enuff stands at a fee of $8,800.
A dual Group I winner in Australia by Japanese super sire Deep Impact, Tosen Stardom (Jpn) has covered 398 mares in his first four seasons, so has the opportunity for success with his oldest progeny just turned three.
“We did not expect him to get early 2YO runners, but he is a lovely athletic horse and has the numbers to give him a good chance for success,” Dodemaide points out.
“The Japanese know more about the Sunday Silence breed than us and he was a Y250,000,000 ($3m Aus) yearling (a record at the time for a son of Deep Impact), so he had the looks and pedigree, plus the performance given he went on to win two Group I’s.”
Tosen Stardom stands at a fee of $7,700.
