Winning Listed races in Brisbane is one thing, but coming to Sydney and winning the Group III ATC Show County Stakes (1200m) at Randwick in carnival time is another and talented mare Midnight in Tokyo also ticked over $1million in prizemoney last Saturday, shining a spotlight on her under-rated sire Kobayashi.
Champion sire I Am Invincible is going from strength to strength as a sire of sires and his first son to go to stud in Queensland was Listed winner Kobayashi, who was given his chance at a modest fee of $4,400 by Aquis.
He had good numbers in his first two seasons before support dwindled as it so often does for a modestly priced sire, who has to prove himself the hard way and Kobayashi has done just that.
Midnight in Tokyo came from the first crop of 51 foals for Kobayashi. Some 35 have raced and 25 have won with stakes-placed Our Kobison also proving his worth with prizemoney in excess of $500,000.
His second crop of 66 foals has produced 45 to race and 28 winners headed by 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 and 25 of those 30 foals have raced with 19 now winners.
AdvertisementThe next two crops for Kobayashi are smaller again with just 19 (new season4YOs) and then six foals (3YOs), but the good news is Kobayashi is locked and loaded for an upswing.
Kobayashi has 72 two year-olds bred from an $8,800 fee and 86 yearlings off a $15,000 fee with a further 79 mares covered last year at $13,200.
Breeders that choose Kobayashi this spring do so with the knowledge that he can upgrade his mares which is not easy to do and that his best crops are yet to race.
Priced at $9,900, Kobayashi is free of Danehill blood and runs at lifetime 66% winners to runners making him an easy choice for the breed to race market looking to chase the rich QTIS bonuses.
