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Victorian operation looking to add more mares to his 2021 book at the Gold Coast this week
Rosemont Stud made their presence felt at the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale in Sydney earlier this month when buying the top lot, Oklahoma Girl (Fastnet Rock) and one further lot, with both mares due to be covered by the farm’s new addition Hanseatic (Street Boss) this spring. The Victorian farm is hoping to add to Hanseatic’s book at this week’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale which gets underway on Tuesday.
Rosemont Stud will stand six stallions this spring with Hanseatic joining Shamus Award (Snitzel), Starspangledbanner (Choisir), Strasbourg (I Am Invincible), Starcraft (Soviet Star) and Nostradamus (Medaglia d’Oro) and the Group winning juvenile son of Street Boss (Street Cry) is one of a number of additions to the Victorian stallion ranks this season, with the state arguably standing the strongest group of stallions that has ever stood in Victoria this year.
“Victoria is in such a strong position and you can feel the momentum that is building in the state and I think it is a great reflection of the quality of breeders we have in Victoria that prompt stud masters to go out and be quite strong on introducing quality, exciting stallions onto their rosters,” said Rosemont Stud’s Ryan McEvoy.
“I think it is a great reflection of breeder support and the quality of breeders we have in the state.
“Victorians have been as strong as any in the yearling, weanling and mare markets this year so far. There is a lot to really like about what the Victorian industry is doing administratively and the VOBIS schemes and the racing product.
“You can argue that some of the best breeders in Australia are based in Victoria and have their mares here. Rick Jamieson and Johnathan Munz, Rob Crabtree just to name a few, there is a lot of positivity around Victoria at the moment.”
Victorian-based buyers have certainly made their presence felt this year at the yearling sales in Australia with purchasers from the state accounting for 34 per cent of the market share at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January, up from 26 per cent the year prior. At the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale last month, Victorian-based buyers spent $35,730,000. Last week at the National Yearling Sale, Victorian-based purchasers accounted for 31 per cent of turnover with Ciaron Maher Bloodstock the leading purchaser and Rosemont Stud bought five weanlings spending $2,160,000 with their partners.
Rosemont Stud announced that Hanseatic was retiring to the farm in March and McEvoy said that the son of Street Boss is now effectively full - something he believes reflects the current positivity in the state of Victoria.
Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, the Hanseatic won the Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m) on debut before adding victories in the Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) (Listed, 1000m) and Blue Diamond Prelude (C&G) (Gr 3, 1100m).
“From our point of view the young stallion we have introduced in the last month is effectively full and I think that is a great sign and a great reflection of the feeling in the state at the moment,” he said.
“We were getting so many interested parties for him at the mare sale and we probably came away from the sale (Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale) with another 25 or 30 bookings to Hanseatic and that effectively got him to the number we wanted to achieve with him.
“We ourselves will keep a dozen spots up our sleeves for the Gold Coast, we are purposely keeping some bookings free for some really nice suitable mares that will come out of the Magic Millions sale.
“We have made no secret that we are going to be fairly active in the breeding stock sales, because we feel like we have a young stallion here who has an enormous profile and can be a real influence, particularly as a two-year-old speed stallion and we are really looking forward to racing his progeny.
“Once we secured him we knew he was a horse we really want to get behind, so to Nigel Austin and Anthony Mithen’s credit, they want him to get the sort of support that a stallion standing at $50,000, $60,000 or $100,000 service fee would warrant. So to be fair they have gone in hard mares and treated him like he is a $100,000 stallion, so I think it’s really admirable and very exciting for Hanseatic that he is going to get some of the best mares that any young stallion will get this year.”
Hanseatic will stand his first season at stud for a fee of $17,600 (inc GST). The Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale topper Oklahoma Girl won three times over 1600 metres and also placed at Group 1 level and McEvoy explained that they are looking for mares for him with some juvenile form and by sires they believe will suit.
“All the mares we bought were speed oriented mares, with some resemblance of two-year-old form in their pedigree by stallions that we really like and we feel that will really suit Hanseatic,” he said.
“We are keen to add to the number we want to send to him and I would imagine that will be around 40 mares.”
