When Richard Anderson of Quilly Park in Victoria decided last year to send a couple of yearlings across for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Adelaide he could not foresee that one of them would be getting a significant pedigree update.
Anderson is the owner of blueblood Exceed and Excel stallion De Gaulle, who stands at Bombora Downs and has sired 16 winners from very limited numbers.
De Gaulle is the sire of Lot 145, who will be offered in the Bombora Downs draft.
A lovely athletic filly with a striking blaze, she is a half-sister to five winners including metro winner Rowsthorn, the dam of stakes-placed Strideaway and also this season’s very smart juvenile stakes-winner Alibaba.
Stakes-placed in the spring behind Eternal Warrior, the Ken and Kasey Keys trained Alibaba won the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview and was a luckless third from a wide gate in the $2million ATC Inglis Millennium won by Golden Slipper contender Fireball.
The current 3YO from Balmodena is also a horse with stakes potential in Roulette King, who has now won three of four starts with a last start victory at Sandown earning him a crack at the Group II Alister Clark Stakes this Saturday at Caulfield.
This filly comes from a prolific Black Type family with her dam Balmodena, a half-sister to stakes-winner Diamonds and to the dam of Group III winner Written Dash.
The quality and commercial appeal of this family is highlighted by the fact two close relations to this filly be offered at Inglis Easter.
Lot 52 to be offered by Yulong is a half-brother by Lucky Vega (IRE) to Alibaba and Lot 270 from Tyreel Stud is the first foal of Diamonds, a colt by Wootton Bassett (GB).
