Basking in the glow of having bred and sold Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, the Kingstar Farm team will head to Riverside Stables for the Inglis HTBA May Yearling Sale (May 2 & 3) with a spring in their step.
Matthew Sandblom’s Hunter Valley nursery is home to three young stallions in proven sire of winners Bull Point as well as young guns Unite and Conquer and Lord of the Sky, whose first crop yearlings are among the 14 strong draft entered for this sale.
With his oldest progeny just three year-olds, Bull Point has sired 17 winners from less than three dozen runners, his winner to runner strike rate pushing close to 50%.
Those winners include stakes-placed Encountabull, Ballarat Magic Millions Clockwise Classic winner Readily Availabull and progressive three year-old filly Star Point, who was a good fourth in the Group III ATC Adrian Knox Stakes.
Highlights are below and click here to see the full draft that will be available for inspection at Riverside Stables next week Barn H 65-80:
Lot 56 Filly Star Turn x Armanjena, by Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)
From the second crop of promising young sire Star Turn, already the sire of seven winners! Half-sister to five winners from Group III placed Armanjena, a half-sister to Group III winners Tiger’s Eye and Vetriano.
Lot 110 Colt Bull Point x Countess Delago, by Encosta de Lago
Full brother to stakes-placed Encountabull, a winner of nearly $160,000 in prizemoney. From a full sister to Group II winner De Lago Mist, the dam of Group II winners Shrouded in Mist and Into the Mist as well as stakes-winning sire Instinction.
Lot 122 Filly Lord of the Sky x Daughter O’Fortune, by Hussonet (USA)
From the first crop of Group I placed and multiple Group winning sprinter Lord of the Sky. Half-sister to stakes-placed Zousonic, from a winning daughter of Group II winner Vocabulary. Zousonic is a last start winner at Sandown and runs at Flemington on Sunday.
Lot 136 Colt Capitalist x Doremifasollatido (USA), by Bernardini
First living Australian foal for a US Group II winner, whose three North American foals are all multiple winners. From the second crop of leading young sire Capitalist, already the sire of three stakes-winners.
Lot 148 Filly Flying Artie x Excellent Vintage, by Exceed and Excel
Half-sister to three-time winner Katgully Red, a winner of over $120,000 that is running at Randwick on Saturday. Dam is a half-sister to SW Pittance from SW Vintage Dance from the family of Group I winners Sizzling and D’Argento. From the second crop of exciting young sire Flying Artie, the sire of Group I Blue Diamond winner Artorius.
Lot 340 Filly Flying Artie x So Delicious, by Henny Hughes (USA)
Half-sister to two winners from a winning half-sister to dual Group I winner Happy Archer and stakes-winner Femina Fashion.