Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling was sold as a weanling in the UK in 2014 for what now seems a bargain price of 60,000 guineas.

Rekindling was purchased at the 2014 Tattersalls December Foal Sale and has now won on four of his ten starts with prize money of $4,123,308.

Rekindling was bred by Robert & Nick Pocock’s Stringston Farm in Somerset in the UK after they purchased his dam Sitara at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale for just 10,000 guineas.

Rekindling (High Chaparral x Sitara by Salse) is out of winning half-sister to G2 Lancashire Oaks winner Pongee (Barathea) and Listed winner Lion Sands (Montjeu).

Sitara has produced five foals to race for five winners including Golden Sword (High Chaparral), a G3 winner and second in the G1 Irish Derby.

Skimmia, an unraced half-sister to Rekindling by Mark Of Esteem, is the dam of Listed winner Julie’s Love (Ad Valorem) and the stakes-placed Julissima (Beat Hollow) and second dam of the stakes-placed winning juvenile Julio (Exceed And Excel).

Redkindling’s family also includes Irish Oaks winner Chicuita (Montjeu) and Alexandrova (Sadler’s Wells), champion 3YO filly in Great Britain and Ireland in 2006, and Germany‘s champion older male stayer in 2016 Alex My Boy (Dalakhani).

Rekindling’s second dam Souk (Ahonoora) is the dam Magical Romance, a Barathea mare who produced the Darren Weir-trained Tall Ship (Sea The Stars), the imported winner of the Listed Warrnambool Cup and Listed Werribee Cup.

Rekindling is one of 20 G1 winners among the 108 stakeswinners by the late Coolmore shuttle stallion High Chaparral (Sadler’s Wells), also the sire of last weekend’s Victoria Derby winner Ace High.

Sitara has a yearling colt by Derby winner Australia and a weanling filly by Gleneagles who will be offered by Stringson Farm at the coming Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

Sitara was covered by Toronado this year.