News - SHAMUS AWARD (AUS)
Following a luckless sixth in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) on a heavy 10 at Randwick, the Edward Cummings-trained Duais showed her appreciation of a good track at Flemington with a dominant performance in the $1,500,000 Group 1 Australia Cup (2000m) at Flemington.
The Australian Studbook have today released official covering statistics for the 2021 breeding season with 34 stallions covering books of 150 mares or more and seven of those covering 200 plus, so who where these super busy guys?
The full sister to Group I BRC Queensland Oaks winner Duais made a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday giving the impression she may well be another star on the rise for her sire Shamus Award.
Rosemont Stud’s Shamus Award consolidated his second place in the race for Champion Australian Sire when the Joe Pride-trained Brutality chose the right spot to open his stakes account, landing a rich prize in Saturday’s $750,000 Villiers Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.
If you are a Victorian breeder, this is a good-looking table of the current frontrunners for Champion Sire.
Australian yearling buyers might be finding it increasingly difficult to purchase stock with some sort of genetic staying aptitude in their pedigree, but there are Australasian sires that can deliver the goods and we need look no further than the Cox Plate to find them.
There would be few stories to equal that of Incentivise, who in one preparation has risen from a Sunshine Coast maiden to claim three wins at the highest level, culminating in a jaw-dropping performance in Saturday’s $5,000,000 Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m).
Queensland Oaks heroine Duais will head to Saturday’s $5million Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) following a determined win in Wednesday’s Group III Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield.
Victoria’s Rosemont Stud has possibly had better launches into spring, but General Manager Bloodstock, Ryan McEvoy, would be hard pressed naming one.
Less than six months ago, Incentivise finished some 16-lengths from the winner when beating two home in a Towoomba maiden.
Rosemont Stud have reshaped it’s forth-coming stallion parade to adapt to Victoria’s current Covid-19 situation - Instead of this Sunday’s “open to all” stallion parade, the six-strong roster will parade for smaller groups through the day on Tuesday, August 17 and Thursday, August 19.
In his biggest test to date, Incentivise put a class field of stayers to the sword in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Tattersall’s Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm.
Brae Sokolski and Ozzie Kheir would have breathed a little easier when the odd-on favourite Incentivise put a space on thirteen overmatched rivals in Saturday’s QTIS Provincial Stayers Final (2500m) at Ipswich.
Shamus Award has had a personal best season with nine stakes-winners highlighted by three Group I winners and his 80th seasonal winner that scored at Gosford on Thursday was a timely reminder of one of his most successful nicks.
Some older stallions gradually fade away, but that’s not the case for Coolmore’s perennial favourite Fastnet Rock, who turns 20 this year and has sired more Australian stakes-winners this season than any other sire.
An incredible day for Rosemont Stud’s Shamus Award at Eagle Farm began with a nine-length winner, Incentivise, and ended with the Edward Cummings-trained Duais, the runaway winner of the $600,000 Group 1 James Squire Queensland Oaks (2200m).
Rosemont Stud’s Shamus Award is enjoying a ground breaking personal best season and for those breeders considering the Cox Plate winner for their mares this spring this nick is one you should probably consider.
A savvy $15,000 investment at the 2018 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale for Slade Bloodstock paid handsome dividends in Adelaide on Saturday when progressive Shamus Award filly Mimi’s Award captured the Group III SAJC TAB SA Fillies Classic (2500m).
Shamus Award celebrated a fee increase to $33,000 at Rosemont Stud in the forthcoming season when Enchanted Heart became his 13th stakes-winner following a barnstorming win in Saturday’s Listed Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford.
Rosemont Stud have announced their 2021 fees on a classy roster headlined by Champion 3yo SHAMUS AWARD, who has quite clearly established himself as the dominant son of multiple champion sire Snitzel.