The immediate impact made by I Am Invincible at Yarraman Park set the bar high for Hinchinbrook who retired to the Scone nursery a year later.
The son of Fastnet Rock has risen to the challenge. After getting the Group I JJ Atkins and Group 1 Caulfield Guineas hero Press Statement and the dual Listed stakes-winner Flippant in his first crop, Hinchinbrook has four stakes-winners in his second crop, now three-year-olds.
All four are fillies and two of them Whispering Brook and Samara Dancer face off in Saturday's Group II Schweppes Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield.
Both are out of imported mares.
Whispering Brook cut a swathe through the best two-year-olds in the west last season, winning all five starts, four of them stakes including the Group II Karrakatta Plate.
The Simon Miller-trainee made the easterners sit up and take notice when narrowly beaten in the Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley at her seasonal debut.
A $45,000 weanling purchase at the 2014 Magic Millions National Weanling sale, Whispering Brook is the fifth foal of the Machiavellian mare Artful Whisper (USA).
From the family of Storm Bird, Pas de Response, Green Tune and Northernette, Artful Whisper could only muster a
But that form was Winx-like compared to that of Samara Dancer's dam Ennerdale.
A daughter of
In fact, her connections must have been supreme optimists to let her go to the track five times in Ireland.
Her form read beaten 25L, 19-1/2L, 53L, 54L and rounded out her career by
But that has not stopped her being a successful broodmare.
Three-years ago Phillip Stokes won the colts and geldings division of the Caulfield Guineas with Ennerdale's son Éclair Big Bang (Savabeel), a $280,000 purchase at the 2012 NZB Premier Yearling sale.
Little wonder Stokes went back to the same sale two years later to purchase Éclair Big Bang's half-sister Samara Dancer for $130,000.
An impressive winner of the Group II Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield last season, the daughter of Hinchinbrook finished fast for third in the Group II Danehill Stakes at her first start for the new season.
She gives Hinchinbrook a great chance of going 1-2 in this important lead-up to the Group 1 One Thousand Guineas.