Fillies Catching Up

Just a few years back this stallion had been firmly pegged as having better colts than fillies, but with four stakes-winners over the past weekend and three of them fillies, the tide might be turning.

Sadly departed High Chaparral (IRE) is the sire of 95 stakes-winners worldwide and the Epsom Derby winner was in good form over the weekend with a stakes double in New Zealand (Charmont and Mangaroa Flo Jo), a juvenile stakes-winner at Randwick (Whispered Secret) and a high class three yea-old winner in Ireland with Rekindling winning the Group III Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown (read about this Lloyd Williams owned colt here).

Of the four stakes-winners, only Rekindling is a colt.

Royally bred Charmont, a grand-daughter of former star mare Champagne, is his 17^th Group I winner after taking out the Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes at Te Rapa.

Charmont is the second female Group I winner for High Chaparral in the past few weeks following on from Montoya's Secret, winner of the ATC Vinery Stud Stakes.

Of those 17 Group I winners sired by High Chaparral, only five are fillies, so there is a bias at the top end towards his colts, but statistics do tend to even out with time, so if you've bought a filly from his final crop this year the odds might be in your favour.

Of his 95 stakes-winners, 55 are colts and 40 are fillies.