Sometimes a stallion can sneak up on you and for Queensland breeders one of those is Kobayashi, who spent his first three seasons standing at fees of $4,400 and then $3,300 and somehow managed to sire a stakes-winner in each of those crops – not easy to do.
One of those stakes-winners is tough and consistent mare Midnight in Tokyo, who won her third stakes race last Saturday at Eagle Farm boosting her prizemoney to top $850,000.
She came from the first crop of just 51 foals for Kobayashi, a modest Listed stakes-winner by champion sire I Am Invincible that was given his chance at stud by Aquis Stallions in Queensland.
His second crop of 66 foals produced stakes-winner Marble Nine, a G3 placed Flemington stakes-winner that has won over $600,000.
His third crop of just 30 foals again produced a stakes-winner in Mishani Lily, a Listed winner in Brisbane that has banked over $650,000.
Kobayashi is looking down the barrel of hitting a flat spot given his current 3YOs and 2YOs are from his smallest crops of 19 foals and then just six foals, but we know what he can do and there is ammo in the locker to make him a great value gamble this year.
Kobayashi has 72 yearlings bred from an $8,800 fee and 86 weanlings off a $15,000 fee with a further 79 mares covered last year at $13,200.
Free of Danehill blood, Kobayashi runs at 66% lifetime winners to runners and 2.5% SW to runner, impressive for a stallion off a very low fee and at $9,900 this spring, he is an affordable stallion that can put you in the picture to capitalise on those lucrative QTIS bonuses.
