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Goes to $320,000 for colt from Fairview Park Stud.
A similarity to Group 2 winner Cosmic Force was enough to convince Michael Wallace to go to $320,000 for another son of the Newgate Farm's sire Deep Field (Northern Meteor) at Sunday's Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
China Horse Club paired up with Newgate Farm to purchase the colt from the Fairview Park Stud draft and there was a sense of deja vu with the same team snapping up Cosmic Force for $180,000 at the 2018 renewal of the Classic sale.
"He is a good mover like Cosmic Force but this horse is a bit more physically square and stronger, but the horse is beautiful and very athletic," said Wallace. "There's similarities to some degree but there's differences as well."
Purchased for the Newgate-China Horse Club partnership, Wallace said the colt looked ready made two-year-old and fitted and as a result fitted the profile for the syndicate.
"He is for our Newgate-China Horse Club syndicate," said Wallace. "Everyone knows what we are after - we are after those fast, sprinting two and three-year-old colts and he fitted that.
"There's a few people waiting and, as we've seen all year, these quality two-year-old looking colts make their money especially by stallions as good as Deep Field.
"He has got a lot of power, a lot of quality, so you can see that coming through and he's got that Exceed And Excel balance in him as well so he is a horse that will fit the mould.
Catalogued as Lot 155, the colt is the fifth living foal out of the unraced Exceed And Excel (Danehill) mare Fragrant Storm, who has already produced one winner in Makuru (All American).
Fragrant Storm herself is a half-sister to Listed winner Texan (Stratum) and fellow Listed winner Belle Grise (Kenmare) features under the colt's third dam.
Further afield this is the family of Group 1-winning pair Keltrice (Kenmare) and Red Dazzler (Red Ransom).
Linda Duckworth of Fairview Park said the colt was out of his box all week and she was confident going into today the colt would be highly sought after in the ring.
"Breeders Rowena Galvin and Bethwyn Trewern have been clients for a long time, haven't always had the best of luck but today was really fantastic for them and for the farm," said Duckworth.
"There probably wasn't really a plan going in. I thought we'd be pretty right but you never really know. I just said to the girls to enjoy the ride. The sure did that.
"He was out all day every day the colt during the week. Very popular, had a lot of hits on x-rays so I went into the vendor box feeling pretty happy and it's nice to see that furnish into a great price in the ring. I'm just so excited for them."
Deep Field is the sire of three stakes winners, while Exceed And Excel is carving out a reputation as top-class broodmare sire and is represented by 41 stakes winners in this category headed seven Group 1 winners; Alizee (Sepoy) Ten Sovereigns (No Nay Never), Prompt Response (Beneteau), Astern (Medaglia d'Oro), Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo), Bounding (Lonhro) and Crown Prosecutor (Medaglia d'Oro).
Wallace also gave an update on the ownership group's exciting young colt Rulership (I Am Invincible) after his second place finish behind Hanseatic (Street Boss) in the Blue Diamond Prelude (C&G) (Gr 3, 1100m) on Saturday and said the plan was to kick on to the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) on February 22.
"He lost no admirers. He wasn't beaten far and the winner is a very, very good but two weeks' time is a different story. We will stick him in there again (and see how we go in the Blue Diamond).
