Capital Gain (image Steve Hart) provided his trainer Paul Butterworth with his first Group I
success and made his large team of owners very happy indeed, particularly since
they had knocked back several lucrative offers from Hong Kong for the talented
gelding last week.Click here to read about his victory.
A $50,000 Magic Millions Ready to run purchase for his trainer, Capital Gain has already won over $450,000 in prizemoney and is the 14th stakes-winner for Ad Valorem.
He is also unique in being the first Group I winner for Ad Valorem, whose list of superior offspring include Group II winners Free Wheeling, Meliora, Pied a Terre and this season's Group II MRC Sandown Guineas winner Morton's Fork, so a Group I winner was most deserved and well overdue!
A former shuttler to Darley, now standing at Cangon Stud near Dungog, Ad Valorem has an impressive 57% winners to runners ratio with the majority of
his stock proving precocious enough to compete successfully at two before training
on to further success with Morton's Fork a prime example.This profile fits very much with Ad Valorem, who was a Group I winner at two of the Newmarket Middle Park Stakes and then later won the Group I Queen Anne Stakes over a mile at Royal Ascot as a four year-year old.
The sire of winners of over $16million, Ad Valorem represents outstandingly good value for the owner breeder priced at an affordable fee of just $4,400.
