When you have 100 investors stumping up $1 million each it adds up to some serious firepower in the sales ring.
The China Horse Club has become a major player around the globe and results at the highest level have begun to flow.
In operation for less than four years, the increasingly familiar red and yellow silks have been carried to Group I success by First Seal, Russian Revolution, Invader and the recent Kentucky Oaks heroine Abel Tasman.
The Teo Ah Khing run operation has two starters in an intriguing opening to the meeting at Randwick on Saturday.
They are the last start Gosford winner Allied Power and an interesting first starter in the Gerald Ryan-trained Heliosphere.
Allied Power (pictured as a yearling) certainly looked to have appreciated the dry track at Gosford and he should get conditions to suit on Saturday.
Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden had the son of All Too Hard in a stakes race in Brisbane last week but decided to keep him home when the track came up as heavy.
Raced in partnership with Newgate, Aquis, WinStar and Matthew Sandblom, Allied Power was a $470,000 purchase out of the Vinery Stud draft at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
The striking chestnut is the second foal of top-class General Nediym mare Night War whose five wins included the Group II WATC Karrakatta Plate and Group III Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic.
Purchased by Vinery in 2012 for $350,000 at the Easter Broodmare Sale, Night War is a half-sister to outstanding sprinter Samaready (More Than Ready) the Champion Female Sprinter in Australia in 2013-14 who numbered wins in the Group I MVRC AJ Moir Stakes and Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes.
Night War's dam Samar (Secret Savings) is a half-sister to the grand stayer County Tyrone a 4-time Group I winner including a pair of Sydney Cups.
On the face of it, three winners from 32 runners in Australia does not make great reading for fans of All Too Hard but we still maintain great faith in the 4-time Group I winning half-brother to Black Caviar.
He is still in the running for leading first crop sire. His cause would be greatly helped should Gary Moore's most likeable All Too Huiying have a change of luck in Saturday's $250,000 Group II BRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m).
Hard to believe that the multiple stakes-placed colt is still a maiden after six starts.
Incidentally, the China Horse Club will be represented in the Sires' by the Chosir colt Taking Aim, who captured the Group III Ken Russell Memorial at his most recent start.
The second China Horse Club colour-bearer in the opening race at Randwick on Saturday, Heliosphere (pictured as a yearling ), is a two-time veteran of the sales ring.
The son of Sebring was purchased as a weanling for $66,000 before selling for $160,000 at the second session of the Inglis Easter Yearling sale.
Consigned by Widden Stud, Heliosphere is a half-brother to multiple winners Berrimilla and Cheonji Bulpae out of the stakes-placed Tale Of The Cat (USA) mare Purrfection.
A granddaughter of the Group I Brisbane Cup winner Limitless (Sir Tristram), Purrfection is a half-sister to Group I NZ Oaks heroine Boundless (Van Nistelrooy).
