Part 4 Anamoe – Which Yearling is Your Pick?

Kat Webster - Friday Jan 9

It turns out Anamoe has a lot of fans out there and this series of stories have been popular with the audence and here is the last of them and our writer Kat Webster has picked her two favourite MM yearlings by Anamoe, so who are they?

The very first Anamoe yearlings will light up the Gold Coast sale ring next week.

A champion colt that competes at the top of his game for three seasons winning G1 races at two, three and four acquires a legion of fans along the way, so this week we are paying tribute to Anamoe, ahead of his first yearlings being sold next week at Magic Millions.

Read Part 1 Anamoe

Read Part 2 Anamoe

Read Part 3 Anamoe

And now we begin the next chapter where owners all over Australia will soon be able to have a little piece of the Anamoe legend and it starts next week at the Gold Coast.

Breeders have reported their delight in the way in which the stallion has stamped his first foals with his own brand of extraordinary quality, presence and athleticism.

Anamoe covered a stellar book of mares in his first season - ten  G1 winners, the dams of 8 G1 winners, and 64 stakes winners.

Expectations for these youngsters are huge. But is anyone really doubting that the Anamoes will deliver? I’m not. He’s got it all - the freakish ability, the sireline on fire, the elite damline.

He’s got a pedigree that offers endless interesting and exciting possibilities to breeders.

The upcoming Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale will see 30 Lots by Anamoe go through the ring and all of them will receive plenty of attention. Click here to see them.

Like many a fellow breeding nerd out there, I'm sure -  I have fairly drooled at the prospect of Anamoe over Fastnet Rock mares, which creates some awesome nicks and clicks.

So I'm rapt to see that the folks at Segenhoe Stud have zoned in on this cross and they present three fillies and a colt as part of their 2026 MM Gold Coast draft, four bred directly from daughters of The Rock himself and one from a Foxwedge mare.

Lot 407 is a standout.

The obvious headline act is Lot 407, a half sister to champion mare Joliestar.

This blueblooded little ripper will no doubt be out of the reach of all but the biggest spenders - and rightly so!.

However I’m particularly taken with Segenhoe's Lot 323, the second foal out of Goddess, a daughter of the excellent racemare Girl Hussler (Hussonet) who has produced the stakes winners Manuel (G1 CF Orr Stakes) and Australian G2 winner / G1 placed HK galloper Sun Patch / Computer Patch as well as G3 winning filly Taking Aim.

Lot 323

Girl Hussler was the solitary foal produced by the unplaced Snippets mare Vecchia Signora, a daughter of the flying Pompeii Court filly Clever Zoe who was a stakes winning juvenile and placed in a G1 Lightning Stakes at WFA.

Snippets mares are gold and this one, the only daughter of a very high class Australian race mare from an elite US damline, demands to make her presence felt!

Goddess won three trials and raced but once. Her colt by Zoustar was a $500,000 purchase for Ciaron Maher Bloodstock at the 2024 Inglis Easter Yearling. Named Amarillo Sky, the now three year old has won two trials but was unplaced at his only start to date.

This filly is bred to Danehill 4m x 3m -  we know that inbreeding Danehill via Redoute's Choice as broodmare sire over a Fastnet Rock mare is one of the best Danehill doubling patterns and has resulted in the likes of triple G1 winning filly Zougotcha.

Anamoe's sireline of Machiavellian complements Hussonet so well.

Machiavellian is by Mr Prospector from a Halo mare (sireline of Turn-To by Royal Charger out of Source Sucree) x Hoist The Flag mare, with Almahmoud x 2 through the three quarter sisters Natalma and Cosmah.

Hussonet is by Mr Prospector from a mare by Raja Baba (Bold Ruler by Royal Charger's three quarter brother Nasrullah x My Babu who is out of Source Sucree's half sister Perfume) x Hoist The Flag.

That all ties in beautifully with Pompeii Court, who sex balances both Nasrullah and Royal Charger and brings more My Babu.

Nijinsky (sex balanced) x 3 here is  Blushing Groom's most famous nick.

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Fastnet Rock brings Marauding, the proven nick with Voltage

This filly is also linebred to Mr Prospector 5m x 4m, and to Damascus, Lunchtime, Round Table and his family (Fastnet Rock's own tribe) Bull Lea and more.

Her family descends from the highly inbred mare Lizzie G, foaled in New Orleans in 1867!

Goddess descends from her through Alice Gray, a full sister to Mannie Gray who became the dam of the legendary Domino - “The Black Whirlwind” - who sired only 19 foals! Seven of them were stakes winners. Domino became a true breedshaper through his sons Commando and Disguise, and through the produce of his daughters in High Time, Sweep and Ultimus.

 His full sister the champion sprint mare Correction became the taproot mare of family 23-b (that of Exceed And Excel) and another sister Mannie Himyar is the ancestress of the sire Swing And Sway also carried by Exceed And Excel - most successful nick for Street Boss.

What about the Anamoe colts?

An appealing youngster to my eye is Lot 160, out of the tough Listed winning / three x G3 placed mare Chassis by Al Maher, consigned by Lime Country Thoroughbreds.

Lot 160

He has plenty of growing still to do but he's strong, athletic and so well put together!

The colt is the first foal from his seven times winning dam and she was typical of her sire - a very big, very strong mare.

Her dam Poco Gusto by Hussonet also produced the stakes placed juvenile colt Indernile  to the cover of Street Boss. See above for the Hussonet nick!

The colt's third dam is the G1 South Australian Oaks placed filly Kachina by Sir Tristram son El Qahira, dam of only three foals - all winners. She was a daughter of Tribeca by Star Way who produced seven winners.

His fifth dam is by the great Battle Waggon.

This colt is bred

Mr Prospector 5m x 4m

Danehill 4m x 3m

Nijinsky 5m x 5f sex balanced through daughters of his Blue Hen Dancing Show 5f x 4f

He doesn't have the flashiest pedigree of the Anamoe colts on offer  - but this is a winning family, and inbreeding to Dancing Show is a proven successful strategy, another variation on the endlessly fantastic duplications of her  Best In Show tribe.

G1 Railway Stakes winner Scales Of Justice is one example of Dancing Show inbreeding.

G1 Australian Guineas winner Al Maher was a great sire of milers in particular and he brings the priceless  blood of La Troienne through his great old broodmare sire  Don't Say Halo by Halo - this should find favour with Anamoe.

The colt's super tough Kiwi damline goes back to the Foxbridge mare Duvac, dam of the 1947 Melbourne Cup winner Hiraji and the taproot mare of this branch of the 8-k family is Lady Chester. Sent to NSW in 1871 she became the dam of champion racehorse and sire Chester.

I reckon this fellow will be a winner, and he will be tough as old boots  - it's  a great place to start.

The double of Dancing Show amps up his class factor 1000%

What will Anamoe have bequeathed him?

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