Swettenham
Stud's promising young shuttle sire Toronado (IRE) featured overnight in France
siring his second stakes-winner when talented three year-old filly Stone
Toronado won the Listed Prix La Sorellina at La Teste De Buch.
Trained by Cristophe Ferland, she scored a length win in the one mile turf contest and
has the overall record of two wins and a stakes-placing from just four starts.
Stone Toronado was a modest 7,000 guinea purchase for Marco Bozzi Bloodstock
from the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and is a half-sister to
stakes-placed Stone of Destiny from Danehill Dancer mare Irishstone, who comes from
a family that has had success in Australia, notably producing Group II winner and
$1million earner Whispering Brook.
Stone Toronado is the second stakes-winner from the first Northern Hemisphere
crop for High Chaparral's multiple Group I winning son Toronado, who returns to
Swettenham Stud this spring at a fee of $27,500.
His oldest Australian progeny are two year-olds and include Prince of Sussex,
winner of the inaugural $1million MRC Showdown Plate.