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A Look At Industry News & Views on Duporth
And the Winner Is!
Date posted November 22, 2011 | Posted by Breednet.com.au
The Kitchwin Hills sponsored 2011 Breednet Foal Gallery Competition to find the best foal from the first crop of their young sire Duporth has been decided with the winner just announced on TVN's Thoroughbreds program.
Queensland based Canning Downs, owned by John Barnes and Joy Mackay, sent in the winning entry with their colt from the imported Zafonic mare Eshaarat (GB) proving to have real star quality!
He's pictured above in the shot that was originally sent in when he was a few weeks old having been born on August 19 and then below as he is now, the winners to receive a free service to Duporth values at $19,800.
"We received close to 40 individual foal entries and studbook have around 70 live foals on the ground so far for Duporth, so we've seen more than half of them and the overall standard has been outstanding,” said Tara Madgwick, who judged the winner.
"All bay or brown, they are strong and athletic with good bone and invariably have the big backside and shoulder of their sire, so he's definitely stamping them.”
The winning colt is the third foal from blue-blooded Esharaat, whose third dam is the immortal Best in Show via the Minnie Hauk branch of the family that has left Group I winners Chief Contender, Aviance, Chimes of Freedom, Good Journey, Aldebran, Denon and Spinning World.
The first foal from Eshaarat, a filly by Lonhro made $100,000 for Canning Downs at Magic Millions earlier this year and her current yearling, a filly by Duke of Marmalade (IRE) will be offered at Magic Millions next year as Lot 607.
Canning Downs is a well known name in the breeding and racing world with a history dating back as far as the famed Darling Downs itself (1827), the original Canning Downs homestead built in 1840 is the oldest homestead in Queensland.
A 'stallion station' from 1842, the property was ultimately purchased by J.H.S. Barnes in 1917, and has remained in the same family's hands until today.
Group I winners bred at Canning Downs over the years include Tails, Rivoli, Highland, High Society,Basha Felika, High Syce, etc.
John Barnes and Joy Mackay have only 20 broodmares and two of them went to Duporth(pictured) last year.
They chose him when they came to look at all the sons of Red Ransom (USA) during the stallion parades in 2010 and settled on him purely on type and they have not been disappointed.
"This foal was a standout from birth and is still my favourite on the farm,” said Stud Manager, Robert Petith
"Both of the Duporth foals will be early running types and very easy to market.”
Below are the two runner-ups in this competition who were a whisker behind the winner, so you can see why this was a tough assignment to judge.
Filly Duporth x Cinecitta
First foal of the Exceed and Excel mare Cinecitta, a daughter of brilliant juvenile Malagra Miss, this foal photo was sent in by one of the filly's co-breeders, Adam Lloyd-Jones.
Mr Lloyd-Jones and three of his mates raced Cinecitta, who was stakes-placed at Flemington and on her retirement decided to keep her for breeding with Duporth chosen as her first mate.
Three of the four owners are based in Hong Kong including Mr Lloyd Jones, who did visit Kitchwin Hills last year with his family, who found it quite a culture shock!
Filly Duporth x One True Love
First foal of the unraced Galileo (IRE) mare One True Love, whose dam is a half-sister to Caulfield Cup winner Cole Diesel, this filly was bred by horse lover and racing enthusiast Kim Harding, who is on the board of Racing NSW.
A life long animal lover, Ms Harding started racing horses with Les Bridge back in 1993 and over the years has been associated with a number of good horses including the likes of Miss Zoe and Utzon.
An innovator and motivator, Ms Harding is one person who absolutely loves her horses and takes a very keen interest in every aspect of their progress, making the most of any opportunity to get up to the Hunter to see her mares, foals and young stock.
"Kim purchased the One True Love as a yearling at the Inglis Premier yearling sale,” explained Bo Ritson of Kitchwin Hills.
"She is linebred to Mumtaz Mahal and traces to Raphis, the full sister to champion Phar Lap, so it was thought she would need 1600m to 2400 metres to show her best, but unfortunately, she had a paddock accident and was unable to race.
"This is One True Love's first foal, and she has done Kim proud in producing this outstanding filly first time around.”
Congratulations to all the breeders of our Duporth foals and to see all the entries click here .
Green Mankini Alert!
Date posted September 14, 2011 | Posted by Breednet.com.au
When you lose a bet, you pay up and Mick Malone has never welshed on a bet.
For those with short memories click here to read the original story in which studmasters Mick Malone of Kitchwin Hills and Steve Morley of Glenlogan Park backed their stallions Duporth and Red Element to be acclaimed as the best looking son of Red Ransom (USA).
Breednet readers decided the outcome with Red Element a narrow winner, so as a result you see the pictures below of our losing studmaster Mick Malone - front and rear conformation shots as promised in green mankini!
Spring sunshine apparently just makes men want to get their gear off! It's probably been going on in Scone for years!
It's like an episode of ‘How to Look Good Naked', come on now I know some of you watch the Lifestyle channel... Gok fans, anyone?
First Foal for Duporth
Date posted August 15, 2011 | Posted by Breednet.com.au
Great anticipation surrounds the first foals of Kitchwin Hills young gun Duporth with this filly from Queenin Caper the first to be born this spring.
Foaled early last week at Kitchwin Hills, this attractive bay filly is the second foal from Exceed and Excel mare Queenin Caper, a metropolitan winning half-sister to Champion 2YO and dual Group I winner Victory Vein.
With a pedigree steeped in two year-old speed it was no surprise to see this little girl up and running!
A high class performer, Duporth ran right up to his impressive pedigree and masculine good looks as he was always expected to do.
Bred and raced by Peter and Wendy Moran, Duporth (pictured)was always destined to be a star as a half-brother by Red Ransom (USA) to Group I winner Excites from the million-dollar earning multiple Group II winning mare Staging.
A winner of four races at two, Staging developed into one of the best mares of her time winning 10 races and $1.1 million with four frustrating Group I placings to her credit in the BTC Doomben Ten Thousand, QTC Sires Produce Stakes, Stradbroke Handicap and AJC Chipping Norton Stakes.
At stud, she has proven to be the ultimate ‘blue hen’ leaving Group I winners Excites and Duporth followed by the brilliant Group II winning and Group I placed Tickets, who is also off to stud this spring.
One of her daughters, Succeeding, has also hit the heights producing this year’s unbeaten South African Champion 2YO Colt Delago Deluxe, winner of the Group I Gold Medallion at Scottsville.
Part of the success of Staging as a broodmare of rare influence can be attributed to her sire Success Express (USA), who was lauded as the best two year-old in the world of his time and has also left us a Golden Slipper winner in Polar Success.
Both Success Express and Red Ransom have achieved notable success when crossed with Danehill and his sire sons, adding further appeal to Duporth as a likely foil for the plethora of Danehill line mares at stud.
Duporth stands this spring at a fee $19,800.
Kitchwin Hills and Duporth will this year be sponsoring the 2011 Breednet Foal Gallery.
As part of the sponsorship, which encourages all studs to send in their best on-farm foals by all stallions, there will be an additional competition exclusively for breeders of the much anticipated Duporth foals.
As judged by Tara Madgwick of Breednet, the breeder of the best Duporth foal of 2011 will be awarded a 2012 nomination to Duporth valued at $18,000.
Good luck to all breeders and don't forget to email your select foal photos into media@breednet.com.au
100 Stakeswinners For Red Ransom
Date posted January 19, 2011 | Posted by Racing and Sports
Vinery Stud's foundation sire Red Ransom reached an epic milestone when he sired his 100th individual stakeswinner last weekend.
The feat sees Red Ransom join some breeding immortals such as Northern Dancer, Mr Prospector, Sadler's Wells, Sunday Silence, Storm Cat, Sir Tristram and Danehill as sires to boast a century of black type of winners.
The late son of Roberto began stud duties at Vinery's Kentucky headquarters in 1991 and was Champion US First Season sire in 2004.
The son of Roberto first shuttled to Australia in 1999 becoming Vinery Australia's foundation sire.
In Australia and New Zealand alone, Red Ransom has so far sired almost 250 winners at a strike-rate of 70 percent. He has 26 individual stakeswinners and 23 stakesplaced and several of his sons are now at stud.
“Red Ransom did so much to establish Vinery as a commercial stud farm in Australia,” Vinery's general manager Peter Orton said.
“He proved an instant success siring a number of stakeswinners from that first crop including Halibery who won both the Blue Diamond Prelude and Preview and was runner-up in the Blue Diamond Stakes.
“From his first crop he had three runners in the Golden Slipper and three runners in the Victoria Derby the same year, a testament to his versatility as a stallion.
"Red Ransom sired at least one stakeswinner from ever crop after that including some really high class Group One winners like Onemorenomore, Duporth, All American, Red Dazzler and of course, Typhoon Tracy, last season's Australian Horse of the Year.
"Red Ransom provided the ultimate outcross for the vast number of Northern Dancer and Star Kingdom-line mares that make up the Australian broodmare population.
"This fact, combined with the versatility of his progeny to be able to perform from 1000m to a classic distance and beyond, was the mainstay for his success."
"We are seeing now that several of his sons have gone to stud, including Onemorenomore at Vinery - that will be his legacy."
The honour of being Red Ransom's 100th stakeswinner went to Emmrooz, owned by Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He won the the Listed Jebel Ali Stakes.
Red Ransom has sired winners in 35 countries on dirt and turf and all climates.
He has sired G1 winning sprinters such as Charge Forward (Champion Sire Season Sire), Duporth, and Red Clubs; great milers such as Intikhab, Onemorenomore, All American and Red Dazzler; a Breeders Cup winner in Perfect Sting and and English Oaks winner in Casual Look; a Dubai World Cup winner in Electrocutionist and an Australian Horse of the Year in Typhoon Tracy.
Red Ransom passed away in November 2009 and is buried in pride of place at Vinery Stud at Scone.
Red Ransom is without 2YOs this season due to EI but has a full crop of yearlings currently at sales and a final crop of only 40 weanlings.
Red Ransom has been succeeded at Vinery by his son Onemorenomore.
One of five son's of Red Ransom to retire to stud in 2010, Onemorenomore was very well received covering 145 mares in his first season and follows the success at stud of Red Ransom stallions Charge Forward and Domesday.
"Red Ransom will always be remembered very fondly - Vinery would not be where we are today without him,' Orton said.
Tickets a New Addition for Widden
Date posted January 19, 2011 | Posted by Breednet
Sons of Redoute’s Choice continue to make their mark as sires with Widden Stud delighted to announce another of his sons will be joining their stallion roster in 2011 in blue-blooded Group II winner Tickets.
Winner of the Group II STC Pago Pago Stakes at two and the Group II STC Phar Lap Stakes at three, Tickets is a half-brother to Group I winners Excites and Duporth, being one of five winners from the million dollar earner Staging.
"Tickets has the pedigree, performance and all important good looks, plus like our Champion 2yo/Champion First Season Sire, Stratum, he is by Redoute's Choice, so should prove an attractive option for breeders looking to tap into this rapidly evolving sireline at a value for money fee," Antony Thompson commented.
Widden Stud has purchased an interest in Tickets, who was bred and raced throughout his career by highly successful breeders Peter and Wendy Moran.
A high class juvenile, Tickets (pictured getting the better of Manhattan Rain in the Canonbury Stakes) started his career with John O’Shea and was competitive with the best of his generation defeating subsequent Group I winners Manhattan Rain and Wanted when capturing the Listed AJC Canonbury Stakes on debut at Randwick.
Tickets followed up his debut victory with a strong win in the Group II STC Pago Pago Stakes over 1200 metres at Rosehill with trainer John O’Shea declaring the youngster as, “the most exciting 2yo in the country, an incredibly talented colt.”
Tickets next start was at Randwick where he finished a gallant second to Manhattan Rain in the Group I AJC Sires Produce Stakes over 1400 metres, beating home subsequent Group I winners Rostova, Onemorenomore and the Golden Slipper winner Phelan Ready.
Well fancied to win the Group I AJC Champagne Stakes over 1600 metres, Tickets featured three times in the steward’s report in what was a rough run race in slow conditions before eventually finishing second to Onemorenomore, a colt he had beaten easily the start before, with Manhattan Rain in third place.
Under the care of Peter Moody, Tickets trained on at three to win the Group II STC Phar Lap Stakes over 1500 metres and the Listed Doncaster Stakes over 1400m at Flemington as well finishing an unlucky fourth in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes over 1200m also at Flemington.
Tickets will stand at an introductory fee of $9,900 inc GST and those interested in inspecting the horse, can do so by appointment as he is now at Widden Stud.
Studious right for Rosehill
Date posted December 7, 2010 | Posted by Punters Paradise
Anthony Cummings has Group One aspirations for Studious who will be on show in a maiden at Rosehill on Wednesday.
The colt is a three-quarter brother to Duporth who Cummings trained to win the 2008 Golden Rose.
Studious was an unlucky fourth on debut over 1200 metres at Canterbury on November when he was blocked for a run but gets the chance to make up for that in the Slipper On Sale Maiden (1500m).
Cummings said there were similarities and differences between Studious and Duporth.
"Duporth was a different style of horse," Cummings said.
"He was brute strength and plainly a sprinter.
"This guy is a bit more athletic good balance.
"I think he will get over more ground and I think he can also get to Group One level.
"He could make a Guineas horse in the autumn but first things first, we'll get him to break his maiden and see what happens from there.
"He was unlucky first up and the step up in distance this time will suit him."
The colt will be ridden by leading apprentice Brenton Avdulla who is indentured to Cummings.
Studious is by Red Ransom out of Studio, a daughter of Duporth's mother Staging.
Like the rest of the family which includes Group One winner Excites and stakes winner Tickets, Studious is raced by his breeders Peter and Wendy Moran.
The rail will be out eight metres at Rosehill on Wednesday and back in the true position for Saturday's Christmas Cup meeting.
First Winner for Excites
Date posted November 14, 2010 | Posted by Breednet
Vinery Stud based Excites kicked away his siring career in style with his first runner Amber's Crown an impressive winner at the Gold Coast yesterday.
Allowed to find her feet during the early and middle stages of the race by jockey Scott Galloway, Amber's Crown powered home from last on the corner to win - racing away late to establish a widening one and three quarter length margin.
Amber's Crown is prepared by highly regarded Brisbane trainer Steven O'Dea and was purchased by major stable client Joe Rapisarda for $14,000 at the 2009 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.
The promising filly earned a cool $20,500 by winning at her first racetrack outing.
"She has always shown good ability on the track, but is still a bit green," O'Dea reported.
"She only had her first trial on Tuesday morning so she's done a big job in a short time."
Amber's Crown will be given a break with feature QTIS 600 races in mind.
"We'll send her to paddock now and there's no doubt she will be a better filly next preparation."
"There is a $250,000 QTIS 600 feature race at the Gold Coast in March co-inciding with the QTIS 600 Yearling Sale - that will be her main aim next prep."
Amber's Crown's sire Excites, a graduate of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, was a high class son of Danewin - winning the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes as a two-year-old.
He is from the Light Fingers Stakes winner Staging and is therefore a half brother to Group One winner Duporth and Group Two winner Tickets.
Excites (pictured) stood this season at Vinery Stud at a service fee of $8,800 (inc GST).
Golden Rose Makes Sires
Date posted August 25, 2010 | Posted by Breednet
First run in 2005 as a Listed race, the 1400 metre $1million Group One STC Golden Rose run at Rosehill on Saturday has quickly established itself as a sire making race with the only three colts to win it all being given commercial opportunity at stud.
Last year’s brilliant winner Denman (pictured www.stevehart.com.au) is set to embark on his first season of stud duties at Darley this spring at a fee of $38,500, the 2008 winner Duporth is also making his stud debut at Kitchwin Hills at a fee of $22,000, while the 2006 winner Court Command stands at Wattle Brae Stud in Queensland at a fee of $13,750 and will have his first yearlings at the sales in 2011.
Even when previously run as the Group Two STC Peter Pan Stakes over 1500 metres, this race was at times an influential one in terms of making sires with past winners including Flying Spur, Magic Albert and the ill-fated Brave Warrior, whose grand-son Toorak Toff looms as a leading fancy this year.
There are nine colts engaged to run in the Golden Rose with unbeaten Gai Waterhouse trained Not a Single Doubt colt Squamosa to carry the number one saddlecloth.
Studmasters on the lookout for sire talent will wish this bloke was by his grand-sire Redoute’s Choice, but if he can win this Group One and maintain that unbeaten status Denise Martin and her Star Thoroughbreds owners will have a genuine sire prospect on their hands.
As a half-brother to Snitzel by Fastnet Rock, the Gerald Ryan trained Hinchinbrook (pictured) is prime sire prospect material with Yarraman Park seen as the frontrunners to secure him when his racing days are done given he was foaled and raised there and the Mitchell family have a close association with his owner/breeder.
Running in a Golden Rose first up is a tough assignment and Hinchinbrook will need to pull out something special to beat fitter horses, but if he does happen to win he will have hit the jackpot in terms of making himself a leading commercial sire of the future.
The David Payne trained Masquerader (pictured below) has been beaten once in three starts and that was when running an excellent second to Squamosa in the main led up to this race a fortnight ago and after
drawing gate two is a deserving favourite.
In terms of sire appeal, studmasters would prefer he was by a more fashionable son of Danehill (USA) than champion HK miler Lucky Owners and might find his female family a tad uninspiring, but he’s a colt that has done nothing wrong on the track and may well end up one of the best of his generation.
Rick Hore-Lacey has put some big wraps on his Show a Heart colt Toorak Toff, who did look good when running down the likes of Star Witness when resuming from a spell and has the impressive record of four wins from seven starts.
Rick is never afraid to run them and if this horse performs as he would wish in Sydney we are likely to see him competing in pretty much of everything this spring.
From a good solid female family and by Queensland’s best sire in Show a Heart, who has stamped Toorak Toff in no uncertain terms, this is a colt who has definite sire appeal if he can blaze a Group One trail.
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Sweet smell of success in air again for golden boy Bowman
Date posted August 23, 2010 | Posted by Sydney Morning Herald
He won the first two runnings on In Top Swing and Doonan before finishing second to Paratroopers on Racing To Win. Then along came Duporth in 2008 to give him a third victory in the opening group 1 of the season.
Bowman will have a great chance to add to his impressive record when he rides the David Payne-trained Masquerader in Saturday's $1 million feature at Rosehill.
''Duporth was probably the best of the ones I have won on and he reminds me a lot of Masquerader,'' Bowman said. ''He [Masquerader] has the good pedigree, a good record like Duporth and has had the right preparation.''
Masquerader is TAB Sportsbet's equal favourite at $4.60 with Toorak Toff for the race. Bowman has never ridden the colt in a race but liked what he saw when Masquerader ran Squamosa to a half-length, giving the Gai Waterhouse-trained three-year-old five kilograms, in the Run To The Rose.
''I have only been on him at trackwork once but he is an impressive type,'' Bowman said.
Bowman said drawing a good barrier was important in the Golden Rose.
''When I won on Doonan and Duporth I had [barrier] one, which is big help, and I think Paratroopers came out of two,'' he said.
''You need the luck in running, and, being on the favourite, I would prefer to draw well because you don't want to be doing extra work in the Rose. It is a top-class race and you can't afford for anything to go wrong.''
The Golden Rose will not have a runner from the powerful stables of Chris Waller and Darley's Peter Snowden. Snowden won the Silver Shadow Stakes with Parables and Up And Coming Stakes with Blackball at the weekend but will not be tempted to back them up.
''We were thinking about Blackball but it would only be an afterthought and you don't win these races as an afterthought,'' Snowden said.
Hinchinbrook, which was fourth in Crystal Lily's Golden Slipper, will resume in the Corcorde Stakes rather than take on the 1400 metres of the Rose first-up, with his trainer, Gerald Ryan, keen to concentrate on other goals later in the spring.
Crystal Lily will be paid up at acceptance time tomorrow but may yet run in the McNeill Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
''We're keeping an eye on the weather here [in Melbourne] and we will probably pay up for both races and see what she draws,'' trainer Mathew Ellerton said. ''[The 1400 metres] is an issue [second-up] but it is 10-times the money of the race in Melbourne and that has to be considered as well.''
Hong Kong-based Brett Prebble, who won the Golden Slipper on Crystal Lily, will ride the filly only if she starts in the Golden Rose, where she will try to emulate Forensics by completing the Golden double.
Nash Rawiller will be on the unbeaten Squamosa, which is Waterhouse's only runner, with Damien Oliver booked for Vain Stakes winner Toorak Toff.
Jim Cassidy will link with Panipique, which outgunned Crystal Lily to win the Quezette Stakes at Caulfield nine days ago.
Kembla Grange trainer Mick Tubman was pleased with the way Chance Bye came through her third to Parables in the Silver Shadow and said she was a 90 per cent chance of being in the field.
''She came home and ate up, and I am happy to start her,'' Tubman said. ''What a first-up run that was with 57 kilos, and she did all the work. There will be no Solar Charged there in the Rose, and if she can find the front and get an easy time, they won't get near her.''
Moran Excited About His Babies
Date posted July 27, 2010 | Posted by Racing&Sports
Group One winning two-year-old Excites will be given every chance to make an impact on the 2010/11 First Season Sires ladder with several of his progeny among the nation's leading stables.
Owner/breeder Peter Moran has ensured that his Excites offspring are given the best start in life by sending them to renowned trainers including Gerald Ryan and four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners.
Moran is hopeful of seeing his familiar green and white silks in the first two-year-old stakes race of the year, the Breeders Plate at Randwick in October.
"I have got five Excites youngsters and four of them are two-year-old types,” Moran said.
"I am pretty positive about them being two-year-olds,
"They have broken in excellent and are good eaters. They cope with the work which is a good sign.
"The one I sent to Gerald Ryan travelled from Brisbane to Sydney and stuck its head straight in the feed bin, so that's a good sign.
"When she arrived, Gerald said this filly is just like all the Excites horses he has seen. He said they are like peas in a pod which is another good sign for any stallion.
"We are aiming at the trials in late August early September.”
The filly is from the Flying Spur mare Snaps who in turn is from Snapshots, a daughter of Success Express thus giving the filly a cross of Moran's successful imported sire.
At just his second race start, Excites split Mentality and Theseo in the Listed T.L Baillieu Stakes before winning the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes.
He is the only son of five-time Group One winner and outstanding sire Danewin at stud in the world.
"Danewin is an exceptionally well bred horse being a son of Danehill from the Eight Carat family," Moran said.
"He has terrific statistics and there is no reason he won't make a sire of sires."
Excites dam Staging was a multiple Group Two winner and Group One placegetter who won over $1 million and is the dam of three Group One performers, Excites, Duporth and Tickets.
"Danewin has overcome early obstacles in his career fertility-wise to establish himself as one of the best credentialed Danehill sire sons at stud," Vinery's Adam White said.
"You would go a long way to find a better looking horse than Excites, who won a Group One at two then trained on to finished second in the Caulfield Guineas at three.'
Excites has proven very popular since retiring to stud in 2007 serving over 100 mares in each of his three season at Vinery and will again be very popular this season.
Every Bit Like His Sire
Date posted July 16, 2010 | Posted by www.thesportsman.com.au
Uncanny similarities between Duporth and his sire Red Ransom. HE may be out of the champion broodmare Staging, but this picture proves that Duporth is in every way his father’s son. As this digitallycreated image shows, the similarities between Duporth and his sire Red Ransom are quite uncanny.
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New Mare for Duporth
Date posted July 2, 2010 | Posted by Kitchwin Hills
Talented and controversial mare Baby Boom has had her racing ban removed following her purchase by the Duporth Syndicate. The mare will continue her racing career under a new trainer, to be announced, before she is sent to Kitchwin Hills, Scone, to be mated with the stud’s exciting new sire, Duporth.
Baby Boom, a daughter of champion sire Redoute’s Choice, won her most recent start by five lengths at the Gold Coast on May 27, and landed a huge betting plunge ($4.80 into $2). A subsequent investigation into her bona fides resulted in the Queensland stewards banning her from racing until their inquiry concluded. The Queensland stewards are satisfied that the purchase of Baby Boom has resulted in a genuine change of ownership. The Duporth Syndicate is very excited to have secured the fast mare.
Kitchwin Hills’ manager Michael Malone said every attempt would be made to gain black type for Baby Boom. “She won at the Gold Coast by five lengths, carrying 58kg, running her final 600m in 34.8 seconds, so there is no doubting she is a mare of exceptional ability,” he said.
“Baby Boom is from the family of Sudden, Burst, etcetera, so any black type will make her an ideal acquisition for Duporth.
“If Duporth proves that he can transfer his physical appearance into his progeny then we are likely to see an exciting outcome from this mating. The Red Ransom match with Redoute’s Choice’s sire, Danehill, is already proving an outstandingly successful cross.”
Malone said Duporth was starting his stud career with an exceptional book. “He is a magnificent individual who should throw the right type of yearlings for the sales market.”
Duporth (pictured) is proving popular for more reasons than the Red Ransom link to Danehill – he is a Group 1 winning sprinter who has a dam line that works in Australia with Success Express (sire of his dam Staging) and Bletchingly (sire of Red Ransom’s successful sire-son Charge Forward). His dam Staging also has proved that she matches well with Danehill through her other top-class sons, the Group 1 winner Excites (by Danewin), and Tickets (by Redoute’s Choice), a Group 2 winning 2YO.
Breeding Duporth to a speedy daughter of Redoute’s Choice makes a lot of sense, Malone said, which was why Kitchwin Hills pursued Baby Boom.
“She has been bought by Kitchwin in conjunction with one of Duporth's owner/breeders in STC board member Max Whitby, and we will be looking to have some fun together, racing her before we let Duporth have his fun,” he said.
Duporth (br or blk h 2006, Red Ransom (USA)-Staging, by Success Express (USA)) stands at Kitchwin Hills at a fee of $22,000 (inc. GST).
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Duporth - new for 2010
Date posted June 21, 2010 | Posted by David Bay
Bluebloods Editor, David Bay, continues his series of profiles on new sires for 2010 in the southern hemisphere where he takes a look at the pedigrees, race record and he offers some suggested advice for suitable matings (remember, this mating advice is general in nature and should be used as a guide only, as every mare is an individual and her entire pedigree and conformation should be considered when deciding on a suitable beau!).
Sire: Red Ransom (Roberto-Arabia by Damascus), has 883 winners (71.6%) of $100m including 100SW (7.8%), 14 at Gr.1 level including Red Element’s brilliant sister Typhoon Tracy, Perfect Sting, Red Clubs, Red Dazzler, Charge Forward, Red Dazzler and two other freshmen of 2010 in All American and Onenorenomore. Red Ransom showed brilliant speed winning two of his three starts and finishing a second in the other and broke a 5f track record, running 56.4 when winning his Maiden at Saratoga. His sire won the English Derby and his dam is by US Horse of the Year Damascus (21 wins). Sire sons include Charge Forward, Markane, Intikhab, Ekraar, Sri Pekan and Face Value.
Dam: Staging (Success Express-Cinerama by Best Western) won 10 races (1000m-1600m) and $1.1m and her notable success came in the Light Fingers Stakes-Gr.2, while she was also runner-up in the QTC Sires’ Produce-Gr.1 and Doomben 10,000-Gr.1. An exceptional broodmare for Duporth’s breeders Peter and Wendy Moran, her other talented sons include Excites (Danewin), who won the AJC Sires’ Produce-Gr.1 and was runner-up in the Caulfield Guineas-Gr.1 and Tickets (Redoute’s Choice), who won the Pago Pago-Gr.2 at two when he was also runner-up in the AJC Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes, both Gr.1 and who won the Phar Lap Stakes-Gr.3 this season as well as finishing fourth in the Ascot Vale Stakes-Gr.1. Staging has also produced two city-winning fillies by Flying Spur.
Her sire Success Express (Hold Your Peace-Au Printemps by Dancing Champ) won the Breeders’ Cup Juvelnile-Gr.1 and sired the winners of more than $33m and his 32 stakes winners included Gr.1 winner and sire Mossman and Golden Slipper heroine Polar Success and his daughters have produced the winners of $29m including Gold Edition and Savabeel.
Next dam, the speedy Cinerama is by Spring Champion Stakes-Gr.1 winner Best Western (Bletchingly) and she also produced the tough Listed-winning sprinter Dashing Image to Success Express and stakes placed Special Effects (Salieri). Third dam Bold Bridget (Bold Flip) won eight races in Melbourne (1200m-1600m) and her six winners included Listed winner River Don (Nisku).
Race record: Duporth defeated Bank Robber and Apache Cat in the BTC Cup-Gr.1 and his other wins include the rich STC Golden Rose-Gr.2 (All American fourth) and the AJC San Domenico Stakes-Gr.3 and he was also third in the Up and Coming Stakes-Gr.3, fourth in the Caulfield Guineas-Gr.1, fourth in the Baguette Stakes-Gr.2 and Royal Sovereign Stakes-Gr.2 and fourth on debut at two (beaten 1-3/4 lengths) in the Pago Pago Stakes-Gr.2. He retires with three wins (1100m-1400m) and earnings of $1.14m.
“We have been on the lookout for quite a while for another horse to stand alongside Dane Shadow,” Kitchwin Hills manager Mick Malone said.
“We’ve been offered quite a few over a period of time and now we think the right one has come along in Duporth. We are very, very excited about standing him. Besides being a Gr.1 winner he’s as good a type as I’ve seen as a stallion prospect, and like Dane Shadow he’s from a superior race mare. I think that is a very important factor, which has been proven over the years, when searching for a stallion.”
Pedigree notes: His family’s success with Danehill sons Danewin, Redoute’s Choice and Flying Spur gives good clues to broodmare owners and it would be no surprise to see him click with daughters of stud mate Dane Shadow (dam by Centaine), with mares by Commands, Danehill, Hurricane Sky, daughters of Zabeel’s sons Octagonal and Reset, mares by Last Tycoon, Arazi, Royal Academy and from the Halo line.
Story Courtesy of Stallions.com.au
Pressday Boosts Freshman Domesday
Date posted June 16, 2010 | Posted by Kitchwin Hills
While the death of Red Ransom was a serious loss to the breeding industry, we take a degree of comfort in his undoubted legacy as a sire of sires and as a broodmare sire. His influence in that first role was underlined over the last two weekends when Snow Fairy, by Red Ransom’s son Intikhab, took the Epsom Oaks, and the rapidly improving Pressday, from the first crop of Darley Australia's promising Red Ransom horse Domesday (AUS), captured the BRC Sires' Produce Stakes (gr. II), then returned a week later to add The T. J. Smith (gr. I).
The omens for the Australian-raced offspring of Red Ransom look particularly auspicious. His first major Australian-foaled son with runners, Charge Forward, is a prominent second season horse, with his offspring headed by grade I winner Headway, and graded winners Shrapnel, Response, and Solar Charged. Other locally-bred sons of Red Ransom in the early stages of their stage careers or about to retire to stud include the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) winner Onemorenomore; Toorak Handicap (gr. I) victor Red Dazzler; All American, successful in the Cantala Stakes (gr. I); BTC Cup (gr. I) scorer Duporth; and Red Arrow, who began his career in Australia but won the Los Angeles Handicap (gr. III) in the U.S.
From a first crop conceived at a relatively modest stud fee, Domesday already has four winners from his first 17 starters, including Pressday, who has now won the Champagne Classic (gr. II), BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. II), and The T.J Smith (gr. I) in the space of four weeks. Several other Domesday runners have also shown talent out of the ordinary, including the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) third Divorces; the Oaklands Plate second Exchanges; Domesky, third in the Anzac Day Handicap at Flemington; and the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. II) fourth, Backgammon.
That Domesday had the potential to get early two-year-olds was clear from both his race record and his pedigree. He took his first two starts, the second of which came in the Silver Slipper (gr. II), and although he never won again, he did add a second in the Todman Stakes (gr. II), ran fifth to Stratum, Fashions Afield, Media, and Mnemosyne in a very hot renewal of the Golden Slipper (gr. I), and fourth in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I). Domesday’s dam, In The Past, is a daughter of Zafonic and a three-parts-sister to juvenile star Xaar. His second dam, Victorian Order, is a daughter of Storm Bird and three-parts-sister to Masterclass (Domesday already has a stakes-placed horse out of a Masterclass mare). The third dam, the speedy Monroe, is a sister to Show Lady, granddam of Hurricane Sky and Umatilla, and third dam of Redoute’s Choice and Al Maher.
Pressday is out of the Kaaptive Edition mare Kaaptive Empress, the winner of nine races from 1200m to 1600m. Out of the U.S. black type winner, Nile Empress (by the Nijinsky II stallion Upper Nile), Kaaptive Empress is bred on similar lines to the Avondale Gold Cup (gr. I) winner The Mighty Lions (by Grosvenor, a son of Sir Tristram, the grandsire Kaaptive Edition, and out of a half sister to that mare). Nile Empress was the only stakes winner produced by her dam, I Assume, but that daughter of Young Emperor – an English Champion Two-Year-Old by Grey Sovereign – was a sister to an important mare called I Rule. Like I Assume, I Rule did nothing of note on the racecourse, but to Domesday’s grandsire, Roberto, she produced Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Sookera. At stud Sookera produced three stakes winners, including the Nunthorpe Stakes (gr. I) victor So Factual. Sookera is also granddam of the famed mare Hasili (like the Pressday’s second dam, by a Nijinksy II line stallion), dam of Champions Banks Hill and Intercontinental; grade I winners Cacique and Champs Elysees; and group winner and outstanding sire Dansili. Hasili’s half sister Dissemble is dam of Champion U.S. Turf Horse Leroidesanimaux. This family has also produced two other notable sires. Itsabet, the granddam of I Assume and I Rule, is also granddam of the mare Imsodear, and when she was bred to Roberto, the result was a mare called Immense, now best-known as the grandsire of Giant's Causeway, and Itsabet’s dam is half sister to the third dam of Straight Strike, only a stakes-placed runner in the U.S., but subsequently a successful sire and broodmare sire in New Zealand.
Story Courtesy of Bloodhorse.com truenicks
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
Date posted June 10, 2010 | Posted by Kitchwin Hills
As Carly Simon sang, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone … and such is the case with the wonderful stallion Red Ransom, who died last year.
But the good news is that this international champion sire is proving himself an outstanding sire of sires, so his impact on the world’s breeding game is continuing and growing, especially in Australia where he has emerged as a perfect cross with the plethora of Danzig blood that uniquely exists in this part of the world.
Already Red Ransom’s sons are making a move – Charge Forward was leading first-season sire in 2008-09 with a crop that produced the Group 1 winning 3YO filly Headway. And only the other day, another of Red Ransom’s European sons, Intikhab, sired the brilliant Group 1 Epsom Oaks winner Snow Fairy; and less than 24 hours later, the exciting trend continued when Pressday, by Red Ransom’s emerging son Domesday, easily won the Group 2 Sires’ Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm.
It’s worth noting that all these young sires have achieved their success without receiving massive numbers of mares – but that is about to change as breeders are realising the value of the Red Ransom line and are jumping on board as the momentum gathers.
The focus on the Red Ransom line is a phenomenon that is unique to Australia with the announcement of three Group 1-winning sons – Duporth, All American and Onemorenomore – retiring from the racetrack for the 2010 breeding season. All three are firmly entrenched at leading farms in the Hunter Valley
So, the question exists – who will be the one?
Kitchwin Hills has put its money on the impressive Duporth and is buoyed by the comments from many who knew Red Ransom very well that Duporth cuts a striking resemblance to his sire. Duporth, as you can see by these remarkable pictures, is a chip off the old block. (Duporth is pictured right).
Importantly, Duporth is such an imposing individual that Kitchwin Hills has found that a high percentage of breeders who have inspected him have been so impressed they have made bookings on the spot. “Breeders are increasing aware of the importance that type plays when breeding commercially. It’s hard to imagine a better looking stallion at stud than Duporth,” said Kitchwin Hills’ manager Michael Malone.
Kitchwin Hills already has developed a very serious stallion in Dane Shadow, who this weekend, with only two crops of racing age from very limited numbers (54 and 50 foals), will be represented by three Group 1 runners in Brisbane – and the stud has the same confidence in Duporth, who retired as Red Ransom\\s only Australian Group 1 winner over the signature speed distance of 1200 metres. Remember, speed is essential in a stallion.
Dane Shadow has recently been ranked as Australia’s No. 1 stallion by highly respected ratings agencies Timeform and Apex. “We left no stone unturned to find a stallion that had the same appeal, and demanded the same attention, as Dane Shadow, and we will be putting the same resources and more into Duporth,” Malone confirmed.
Duporth is from the champion Success Express mare, Staging, who has already proven her blood mixes very well with Danehill, by producing the Group 1-winning juvenile Excites (by Danewin) and the Group 2 2YO winner, Tickets (by Redoute’s Choice).
Will Duporth emerge as Red Ransom’s most sought-after son? Kitchwin Hills believes in him, but time will tell.
Duporth (br h 2006, Red Ransom (USA)-Staging, by Success Express (USA)) stands at $22,000 (inc. GST)
DUPORTH
Date posted May 27, 2009 | Posted by Alan Porter
This week Alan Porter looks at the pedigree of the Group I BTC Cup winner, Duporth.
Streaking stallion Red Ransom added one more group one winner to his credits, when Duporth stamped his stallion credentials by getting the best of a three-way photo finish in the BTC Cup (Gr. I) at Doomben on Saturday, May 16th.
Having spent his entire career contesting graded stakes events, Duporth has been threatening to bring down a big one for a while now. He ran just twice at two, finishing fourth in the Pago Pago Stakes (gr. II) on his debut, then fifth in the Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I). He kicked off his three-year-old season in good form with wins in the San Domenico Stakes (gr. III) and Golden Rose Stakes (gr. II) sandwiching a third in the Up and Coming Stakes (gr. III). Duporth had not made the first three in six subsequent starts, but a look at his race record it reveals terms like “checked” or “lacked room”.
Duporth, ran in the Doomben 10,000 on Saturday where he failed to handle the heavy track his trainer, Anthony Cummings, will be seeking some compensation for his owners’ when he lines him up in the Group I Stradbroke Hcp at Eagle Farm on Saturday, June 6th.
Duporth is the fifth Australian group one winner by Red Ransom, who is enjoying a tremendous season. He has a contender for the title of Champion Two-Year-Old in Onemorenomore, winner of the AJC Champagne Stakes (gr. I); his current three-year-olds include Duporth; the sensational Typhoon Tracy, whose victories include the Coolmore Classic (gr. I); Portillo, winner of the Surround (gr. II) and Magic Night Stakes (gr. II); Romneya, who has taken the Moonee Valley Fillies’ Classic (gr. II) and The Vanity (gr. III); and black-type winner Yesterday; and he also has four-year-old stakes winner Red Element.
Duporth’s dam, Staging was an accomplished runner, and has become an outstanding producer. A daughter of Success Express, she was a prolific black-type winner, capturing the Surround Stakes (gr. II), Light Fingers Stakes (gr. II), Emancipation Stakes (gr. II), Carlton Cup (gr. II), Courier Mail Classic (gr. III) and Coca-Cola Classic (gr. III), and she also took second in the QTC Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I) and Doomben 10000 (gr. I), and third in the Chipping Norton Stakes (gr. I). Staging produced winners with her first two foals – both daughters of Flying Spur, and now themselves worth a small fortunate as broodmares – but her stud career really took off with her third foal, the Danewin colt, Excites. Passed in for $310,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale, he captured the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I), and took second in the Caulfield Guineas (gr. I). Duporth is Staging’s fourth foal, and her fifth is current top two-year-old, Tickets, a son of Redoute’s Choice. He won the Pago Pago Stakes (gr. II) and the Canonbury Stakes, and took second in the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) – to Onemorenomore, the son of Duporth’s sire, Red Ransom – and AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes.
Out of the winning Best Western (by Bletchingly) mare, Cinerama, Staging is a sister to black-type winner Dashing Image. Her dam is half-sister to the black-type scorer, River Don, and is a sister to Bridget’s Daughter, winner of 12 races, and dam of Millennium Diamond, successful in the Goldophin Barb Stakes (gr. III) in South Africa (incidentally, Millennium Diamond is by Royal Academy, who is by Nijinsky II, grandsire of the dam of Success Express, the sire of Staging). Staging’s grandam, Bold Bridget, is by the very well-bred U.S. import Bold Flip (by Bold Ruler out of the great mare Cicada). She won eight times, and was fourth in the Standish Stakes (gr. III). Bold Flip is half-sister to Welcome Back, who produced a crack sprinter/miler in Always Welcome, winner of the Craven ‘A’ Stakes, Futurity Stakes, and All-Aged Stakes. Welcome Back is also grandam of Mannerism, an Amyntor daughter of annexed the Caulfield Cup (gr. I), Australasian Oaks (gr. I), Futurity Stakes (gr. I) and Vic-Health Cup (gr. I), and subsequently produced the Danehill graded stakes winners, Dandify and Manner Hill.
The pedigree of Staging is an outcross at four generations, but behind that, there are some powerful build-ups that explain why her sire, Success Express, did so well with mares from the Star Kingdom line, and especially via Biscay and Bletchingly (he has seven stakes winners out of Biscay line mares, including grade one winners Coogee Walk and Quick Star). A major key is the double in his dam of English Champion Two-Year-Old Challenger II. A son of Swynford (dam Canterbury Pilgrim), out of a mare by Great Sport (dam, Gondolette), Challenger had the great foundation mare, Pilgrimage (dam of Canterbury Pilgrim, and of Loved One, the sire of Gondolette), 3 x 5. His fourth dam, Amphora, was a sister to the stallion Sundridge. This sets him up ideally for Star Kingdom, who is from the male line of Hyperion (dam, Selene, by Chaucer, a half-brother to Swynford, and third dam, being Gondolette, meaning that Selene was also inbred to Pilgrimage, through the same individuals as Challenger II). Star Kingdom also went back to Canterbury Pilgrim in tail-female line, and his third dam had that mare 2 x 4 in her pedigree. The closest inbreeding in Star Kingdom’s pedigree is a 4 x 4 cross of Sunstar, and he is by Sundridge (sister in tail female line of Challenger II) out of a mare by Loved One, out of Pilgrimage, giving more of that mare.
When we come to Bletchingly, we also pick up Relic, who plays into another duplication in the pedigree of Success Express. Relic was by War Relic (inbred to Rock Sand and Fairy Gold, two of the grandparents of Man o’War) out of a mare very closely related to Blue Larkspur (dam by a son of Sundridge). Success Express has a double of Pilate (by Friar Rock, by Rock Sand out of Fairy Gold), one through Eight Thirty, who is inbred to Rock Sand and Fairy Gold. Success Express’s sire, Hold Your Peace, is out of Blue Moon, who is by Eight Thirty, from a Blue Larkspur mare, so bred very like Relic. While this is all quite complex, the simple bottom line is that Success Express, by virtue of Challenger II, is very well set up to work with Star Kingdom in general, and through Pilate/Eight Thirty/Blue Moon, with Bletchingly in particular.
Red Ransom, sire of Duporth, is by Roberto, a stallion inbred to Blue Larkspur (close relative to the dam of Relic, who is in Bletchingly, and twice in Best Western (sire of Duporth’s second dam). His broodmare sire, Damascus, has two crosses of Blue Larkspur, both combined with half-brothers to Hyperion (out of Selence, who inbred to Pilgrimage, as is Challenger II). Red Ransom’s grandam, Christmas Wind, completes the story, as she has Hyperion and his three-parts-sister, All Moonshine, 3 x 4.
So, its no surprise that Red Ransom should work well over a Success Express mare, and we can also does note that he has had a major score with a Bletchingly, this cross having produced grade one winner and leading freshman sire, Charge Forward.
We’ve written recently that the Hail to Reason line through Red Ransom and More Than Ready, looks like being Australia’s best shot at a male line outcross for Northern Dancer, and particularly the overwhelming influence of Danzig, particularly through Danehill and his sons. Duporth, whose only Northern Dancer strain will be in the sixth dam of his foals, and who is half-brother to two top-class runners by sons of Danehill, looks very well-situated to take advantage of the situation.
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RED RANSOM
Date posted April 28, 2009 | Posted by Alan Porter
Alan Porter of Pedigree Consultants:
For recent issues of the leading Australian thoroughbred breeding magazine Bluebloods, a publication we write for on a monthly basis, we’ve explored how the Hail to Reason line through Red Ransom (from the Roberto branch) and More Than Ready (from the Halo branch) might provide the ideal outcross for Australia’s current profusion of Northern Dancer line mares.
That point was re-emphasized at the weekend when Red Ransom’s son, Onemorenomore captured the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) over a mile atroyal Randwick. Onemorenomore, who was winning his second race in six starts (all in stakes events), has steadily improved with distance, having scored his previous victory in the T L Baillieu Handicap over 7 furlongs, and then finished fourth in the Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I), and his connections were apparently confident that he would appreciate the mile better than the horses who finished in front of him in the Sires’ Produce.
As far as distance is concern, Red Ransom has – in the most positive sense – always been something of a split personality horse. He himself showed tremendous speed winning both his starts at two, setting a new track record for five furlongs at Saratoga on his debut. However, his sire, Roberto, won the English Derby (gr. I), and his broodmare sire, Damascus, the “Horse of Steel” won the Jockey Club Gold Cup when it was still contested at two miles. At stud, he’s sired the winners of top-class races from five furlongs to 1½ miles, and most distances inbetween.
In Australia, the local population seems to have almost exclusive reacted to Red Ransom’s speed influence, and almost all his graded scorers are sprinters and milers. Onemorenomore is the fourth Australia grade one winner for Red Ransom, following Charge Forward – in line for freshman sire honours – Red Dazzler and Typhoon Tracy, and he has 14 other Australian graded scorers, including the grade two winners Portillo, Halibery, Romneya, Duporth and Domesday.
A $800,000 William Inglis Easter Yearling Sale purchase by Anthony Cummings on behalf of Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm, Onemorenomore is out of Palia, winner of the Emancipation Stakes (gr. III) and Ra Ora Classic. Oddly enough, Palia’s sire, Last Tycoon represented the same kind of distance conundrum as Red Ransom. By Try My Best, a Champion European Two-Year-Old, and brother to El Gran Senor, who won the Irish Derby (gr. I) at 1½ miles, out of a mare by Mill Reef – one of the best 1½ mile horses ever seen in Europe – Last Tycoon broke the five furlong course record at Royal Ascot when winning the King’s Stand Stakes (gr. I), although he did eventually see out eight furlongs well enough to capture the Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I). Last Tycoon has been a tremendously successful broodmare sire in the Southern Hemisphere, where his daughters have so far produced more than 50 stakes winners, 35 of them graded, and 15 grade one.
Palia herself has been a more than useful producer, as in addition to Onemorenomore, she is dam of the Fusaichi Pegasus colt Dr Green, a brilliantly fast but erratic two-time listed winner in New Zealand and graded placed in both Australia and New Zealand, and Dr Green’s brothers Roussay and Fury, both of who have been graded stakes placed. Palia also has two good producing sisters, Lady Capel and Mrs Squillionaire. Stakes placed Lady Capel is dam of the Chipping Norton Stakes (gr. I) winner Casino Prince (by Flying Spur), now a resident at Patinack Farm as a stallion, and black-type scorer Lord of the Land (by Timber Country). Mrs Squillionaire produced the Catbird gelding Green Birdie, winner of two Hong Kong graded events, and runner-up in the Hong Kong Sprint (gr. I). Since Red Ransom has enjoyed success with Danehill line mares, and two of Palia’s sisters have produced good winners by sons of Danehill, there is a very good chance that Onemorenomore will cross well with mares from that line when he retires to stud.
Palia’s dam, Kew Gardens, a daughter of Kenmare, raced in France, where she earned black-type with a second in the Prix Soya. She is half-sister to Le Johnstan, who captured the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot, and to Woodwind, dam of the Nunthorpe Stakes (gr. I) and King’s Stand Stakes (gr. II) winner Piccolo, a successful sire in England, and sire of Australian grade one winner Picaday from a shuttle crop. Kew Gardens is also bred on similar lines to the dam of Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale, whose dam is by Kaldoun (a Grey Sovereign line horse, like Kenmare, the sire of Kew Gardens) out of a half-sister to Kew Gardens. Oddly enough, Arravale is also from the Roberto line (she is by the Kris S. stallion Arch), so her pedigree has some broad similarities to to Onemorenomore. The third dam of Kew Gardens, Lady Kells, won the Phoenix Plate (which would then have been the equivalent of a group two event) and was half-sister to the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Solonaway. Lady Kells is know internationally through her Nasrullah daughter Dangerous Dame. She was only a minor winner at the track, but at stud produced the top-class sisters Heavenly Body and Hidden Talent. Through them she is ancestress of numerous top-class horses, among them Broad Brush, Exceller, Capote, Sakhee, Bob and John, River Memories, Pressing, and Mull of Kintyre.
Rated A++ by TrueNicks, the Red Ransom/Last Tycoon cross is proving to be a very potent one. In addition to Onemorenomore, it has also produced the brilliant filly Typhoon Tracy, her full brother in the stakes winner Red Element, graded winner Valpolicella, and grade one placed Kylikwong. Red Ransom is always a threat to combine well with Northern Dancer blood as his granddam is a daughter of Northern Dancer’s sire, Nearctic, and he also has Mossborough, a very close genetic relative to Nearctic, and grandsire of his third dam. With Last Tycoon, the cross also supplies the genetic relatives My Babu and Never Bend (with another cross of My Babu appearing in the dam of Onemorenomore). The pedigree of Onemorenomore also shows an unusually high concentration of the great racehorse and sire, Nearco, and Onemorenomore is unusual in that his dam carries not only Nearco’s Italian Derby winner half-brother, Niccolo Dell’Arca, but also his half-sister, the Italian Oaks heroine Nervesa.