News - SIDESTEP (AUS)
A few weeks ago we made mention of the promising trial performance from Winx’s two year-old three-quarter sister Wings of Desire, who surged home for second in a heat at Randwick won by three year-old filly Are Ee Que, who franked that form when bolting in at Goulburn on Friday.
It takes a very rare and special stallion to consistently produce early maturing, hardy horses that can rise to the top as 2YOs and the Telemon Thoroughbreds roster is headed this year by two stallions with that sought after ability that will allow breeders to target Australia’s best incentive scheme, QTIS.
Last season, Nikita Beriman guided Party For Two to consecutive wins at the Sunshine Coast and Doomben before finishing a courageous second to Exploring in the Group II Blue Diamond Prelude at Sandown Hillside.
All roads lead to the Gold Coast next week for the Magic Millions March Yearling Sale (March 11 and 12) and Telemon Thoroughbreds will present a draft of six including three by the farm’s proven and promising sires Sidestep and Sun City.
The timing may have been problematic with signature race days at Caulfield and Randwick. Still, the results were no less noteworthy for Telemon Thoroughbreds, with a milestone first winner for Sun City and a brilliant return to the winner's circle for a daughter of Sidestep at Eagle Farm.
Breednet race results and sire tables are the fast track to a mine of information on stallions that are producing winners every day and our Hypothetical Mating option for Premium stallions has seen over 3300 pedigrees created since it was launched at the start of the month – that’s a lot of broodmare owners doing homework!
With four wins and two seconds from six starts, the 2yo Sidestep gelding Beau Rain has been a little star for trainer Bill Kenning, his latest success coming over 1300m at Townsville on Friday.
Turning 23 this year, Darley heavy hitter Exceed and Excel was the Champion Australian Sire in 2012/2013 and has left over 200 stakes-winners worldwide during a long and glittering stud career and the future of his legacy as a sire of sires rests largely with a trio of Group I winning colts.
Telemon Stud have announced their 2023 service fees headlined by a resurgent Golden Slipper Sire in SIDESTEP at $8,800.
Telemon Stud’s Dan and Rae Fletcher have a little beauty in their homebred Sidestep filly Party For Two.
The three-year-old Sidestep filly Flying Step broke her maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday to become the latest winner from a family that has served her trainer, owner, and breeder Bruce Cross well over several decades.
Telemon Thoroughbreds is home to Golden Slipper winner Kiamichi’s sire Sidestep, who added a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight when Best Lightning won the Group III 44th Kroniums Badener Mile (1600m) at Baden Baden in Gemrnay.
Lindsay Park’s promising Sidestep colt Liberty Steps may step up to stakes company after opening his winning account in the Bert Bryant Hcp (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
It’s a term usually associated with boxers rather than beefy 550kg thoroughbreds, but Dan Fletcher makes a good point by claiming that – ‘pound for pound’ – Telemon Thoroughbreds is one of the most successful stud farms in Australia.
The Zhang Yuesheng owned Real Appeal (GER), a son of Telemon Thoroughbreds Sidestep, carried the Yulong silks to victory in Saturday's Group II Boomerang Mile at Leopardstown.
The Group III Ballycorus Stakes (7f) at Leopardstown overnight was won by talented Sidestep gelding Real Appeal, who carries the colours of Yulong Stud’s Zhang Yuesheng.
Telemon Thoroughbreds are set to enter the 2021 breeding season with an unchanged line-up of three stallions.
Telemon Thoroughbreds Sidestep is nothing if not versatile - his 3yo son Theleme was a four-length winner of a €110,000 Group II hurdle over 3600m at Auteuilin, France overnight followed by the first two winners at Muswellbrook on Monday over 900m and 1000m.
Telemon Thoroughbreds Sidestep had the rare distinction of siring a Golden Slipper winner in his first crop however he is likely to garner almost as much publicity through the remarkable victory of the heavily backed Stock Legend at Happy Valley overnight.
One of the most popular Group I winners last spring was Begood Toya Mother and his three year-old half-brother Prince of Helena opened his account at Wangaratta on Thursday.