Newhaven Park has proven a fertile nursery for the Kelly family with the rolling hills at Boorowa producing many champions through the last century and into this one and quite possibly the best of them all is Autumn Glow.
Autumn Glow topped the Magic Millions Weanling Sale for Newhaven Park in 2022 when selling for $600,000 to Silverdale Farm as a pinhook prospect and then topped Inglis Easter the following year when bought by Arrowfield/ Hermitage Thoroughbreds for $1.8million.
Chris Waller was given the task of nurturing this exceptional filly into becoming an exceptional racehorse and after 11 consecutive wins netting $8.1million, Autumn Glow is on track to be the best horse in Australia this season.
Newhaven Park will offer 11 yearlings at Inglis Easter on Sunday and Monday and they include a filly from the family of Autumn Glow.
Given that Autumn Glow’s dam Via Africa (Saf) is now in foal to Zoustar and that Autumn Glow herself will ultimately go to stud one day and be given every opportunity with the world’s best stallions, this filly offers unique potential to get into an extremely valuable family.
Lot 30 is a Dundeel filly, the first foal from Protea, an unraced half-sister by Vancouver to Autumn Glow and her Group I winning sibling In the Congo, whose first yearlings are sellling this year.
Protea is now in foal to The Autumn Sun after losing a colt by Dundeel and she and Autumn Glow are the only fillies produced by Via Africa, who has not had a living foal since Autumn Glow arrived in 2021.
Win, lose or draw on the racetrack in the future, Lot 30 is a collector’s item for the serious investor.
Dundeel is also the sire of a stunning colt from Newhaven Park’s Champion 2YO and 3YO Filly English and he will be offered as Lot 292.
He is the fourth foal of the $3.4million earner English and is bred on the successful Dundeel x Encosta de Lago cross that has produced Group II winner Red Aces and three more stakes performers.
Click here for the full Newhaven Park draft of 11 that includes the full brother to outstanding 2YO Group I winner Cool Archie, who is returning to his birthplace to stand his first season at stud this spring. Read more on that here.
The first stakes-winner for the farm’s promising young sire Cool Aza Beel, Cool Archie reeled off five consecutive wins from April through to June last year over distances ranging from 1000m to 1600m.
He handled good and heavy tracks, plus everything in between with his glittering season culminating with a dominant victory in the Group I BRC JJ Atkins.
Cool Archie’s full brother will be offered as Lot 225 and is the from top class producer Aware, who has had six foals to race and all are winners.
Additional highlights are as follows:
Lot 50 Filly Dundeel x Rosie Rocket, by Blackfriars
Half-sister to $1.7million earner Kissonallforcheeks, a multiple Group winner with three G1 placings, and SW Russian to the Bar being from G1 placed SW Rosie Rocket.
Lot 116 Colt So You Think x Spanish Whisper, by Lope de Vega (IRE)
Half-brother to two winners and is from triple G2 winner Spanish Whisper, who was also G1 placed at two and traces back to the family of European Horse of the Year Rock of Gibraltar.
Lot 291 Colt Justify (USA) x Ends in Tears, by Snitzel
Half-brother to G2 winner Lavish Girl and also smart 3YO Azzacool (f Cool Aza Beel), who has won two of three starts for the Ciaron Maher stable
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.
