The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week features the crème de la crème of Australian pedigrees, but you also need a horse with the right physical from a farm with a proven track record to tip the scales in your favour.
The Cornish family owned Torryburn Stud is a farm that doesn’t just produce good horses, it produces champions such as Home Affairs, now the sire of a Golden Slipper winner from his first crop, and Hong Kong superstar Voyage Bubble.
Not to mention Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Espiona, who won over $3.3million on the track for Star Thoroughbreds before selling for $4.15 million as a broodmare prospect.
Current Torryburn graduates charting a path to success for their owners are Group winning mares Idle Flyer and Mare of Mt Buller, who are both set to target G1 races over the next few weeks in Australia and New Zealand.
Torryburn will present a select draft of six for Inglis Easter and the obvious standout is Lot 272, a glorious filly by champion sire I Am Invincible from Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Dixie Blossoms.
She is the fourth foal of this $1.5million earning mare, whose first two foals to race are both winners and there is more to come from Dixie Blossoms as she had a Dundeel colt last spring and is now in foal to Farnan.
Torryburn will also offer one of only two colts in the sale by Harry Angel (IRE), who has given us Group I winners Tom Kitten and Private Harry, along with G1 winner in waiting Angel Capital.
Lot 53 is the second foal of stakes-placed import Royal Canford (IRE), who comes from a European speed family that has produced brilliant G1 winning sprinters Gilt Edge Girl and Arcano.
The remaining Torryburn yearlings are all fillies by proven sires and hold the promise of residual value.
Lot 92 Filly Capitalist x Sienna Lady (IRE), by Lope de Vega
Second foal of a winning half-sister to G2 winner Shakespearean and to the dam of Champion Hong Kong Sprinter/ Miler California Spangle.
Sienna Lady has a colt to follow by So You Think and is in foal to Alabama Express.
Lot 107 Filly Ole Kirk x Slots, by Casino Prince
Half-sister to G1 placed $1.3million earner Payline and is from stakes-winer Slots, who traces in tail female line to G1 Australian Oaks winner Savana City, who has spawned an impressive dynasty of stakes performers. Her fifth foal Like an Eagle, is an unraced 2YO by Home Affairs in the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou stable.
Dam sire Casino Prince has worked well with Ole Kirk’s famed female line (Helsinge) to produce Champion 3YO Colt and G1 sire All Too Hard.
Lot 149 Filly Wootton Bassett (GB) x The Pinnacle, by So You Think
Fifth foal from G3 winner The Pinnacle, who has had three foals to race and all are winners with her unraced 2YO Home Affairs colt now with Henry Dwyer and headed to Hong Kong.
Her grand-dam Spire has done a super job for Torryburn producing eight winners with The Pinnacle joined by G3 winner Under the Eiffel and SW Tower of London, so this is a real running and winning family that Torryburn know inside and out.
Lot 159 Filly Zoustar x Toryjoy, by Street Cry (IRE)
Third foal of stakes-placed Toryjoy, a half-sister to SW Landing from G3 winner Joy of Flight from the family of G1 winners Grand Journey and Griante.
Bred on the successful Zoustar x Street Cry cross that has produced 15 winners from 19 runners highlighted by G3 winner Espionage and SW Arts Object.
