You often listen to a studmaster make comment on their draft that ‘there is something for everyone’ and in the case of Olly Tait at Twin Hills Stud that would be correct given the farm will present 10 yearlings at Inglis Easter and all are by very different sires.
The six yearlings highlighted below are by stallions that do have something in common and that is every single one of them has sired a Group I winner in the last 12 months and if they have done it once, they can certainly do it again!
Lot 5 Filly St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) x Oria, b Medaglia D’Oro (USA)
From the second crop of 2021 European Horse of the Year St Mark’s Basilica, who already has an Australian SW in Aristopolos and is well placed to make a big splash in the Northern Hemisphere where his oldest progeny have just turned three and include G1 winning filly Diamond Necklace.
Half-sister to SW Superalloy and her dam has now had three foals to race all winners and traces back to fourth dam Benediction (IRE), the dam of two time Australian Horse of the Year Might and Power.
Lot 35 Colt Super Seth x Queen Leonora, by Savabeel
By Super Seth, who was recently purchased from Waikato Stud to stand at Coolmore Australi, which tells you all you need to know about this sire, who has had three G1 winners in Australia and one of them, Linebacker, looks a lot like this colt!
Fourth foal of a winning Savabeel grand-daughter of dual G1 winner Legs from a top class Waikato Stud family that has also produced G1 winners Guyno and Tiptronic. Bred on the proven x Super Seth x Savabeel cross that has produced G1 winning filly La Dorada.
Lot 38 Filly Dundeel x Raison D’Etre, by Exceed and Excel
By Dundeel, who has sired nine G1 winners and is not far off his tenth with his quality mares Idle Flyer and Mare of Mt Buller entered for upcoming G1 races on both sides of the Tasman.
Third foal of a winning three-quarter sister-in-blood to SW Reparations and daughter of SW Abduction. Bred on successful Dundeel x Exceed and Excel cross that has produced 11 winners from 14 starters headed by G3 winner Tannhauser.
Lot 183 Filly Home Affairs x Wednesday (IRE), by Night of Thunder
From the second crop of Home Affairs, who has three SW’s on the board headed by last Saturday’s G1 Golden Slipper winner Guest House.
Third foal of an unraced blueblood Juddmonte Farms bred import by champion sire Night of Thunder tracing back to influential matriarch Modena… think Reams of Verse and Midday.
Lot 380 Colt Castelvecchio x Lady Messene, by Animal Kingdom (USA)
By Castelvecchio, the sire of last Saturday’s G1 Ranvet Stakes winner and 2025 Australian Derby winner Aeliana and also G1 winner El Castello, plus G1 winner in waiting Verona Rose.
Half-brother to a winner and is fourth foal of unraced half-sister to G2 winner Messene and SW Cordero. Comes from powerful female family with fourth dam Lady Giselle (Fr), the dam of breed shaper Zabeel and G1 winning sire Baryshnikov.
Lot 457 Filly Justify (USA) x My Obsession, by Lonhro
By Justify, one of the best stallions in the world and is from his last crop of Australian conceived foals. For the record Justify runs at 9.6% SW to runners and his 10 G1 winners are split evenly - five colts and five fillies – and they have been successful from 1000 to 3200m.
Half-sister to G3 MRC Geoffrey Bellmain stakes winner Vagrant and is fifth foal of the dam, who has had four foals to race all winners. This is a fast female family packed with Black Type and you would think this filly would lean to the speed side of the Justify spectrum.
