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Pair spend $644,000 on classy quartet at Inglis Australian Weanling Sale
Silverdale Farm and Suman Hedge made their presence felt a the Inglis Weanling Sale on Thursday when they purchased four youngsters for a total outlay of $644,000, with a most expensive of the quartet a filly from the first southern hemisphere crop of Coolmore Stud shuttler Justify (Scat Daddy), who they bought for $300,000.
The filly was the most expensive Justify weanling and the most expensive filly of the sale purchased on Thursday at Riverside Stables and she was offered by Fairhill Farm and catalogued as Lot 177.
She is out of five time-winning Danehill Dancer (Danehill) mare Now Now and she has already produced three winners, headed by Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed filly Fiesta (I Am Invincible).
Further back the filly's third dam is Listed winner Vowed (Without Fear) and her six winners are headed by Group 3-winning pair Stick Around (Twig Moss) and Charm Scene Land (Brocco) as well as Listed winner and multiple Group 1 performer Kingsgate (Danzero).
Hedge told Racing & Sports Bloodstock he was delighted to secure the filly in what he rated a very strong market and believed her to be very like her famous sire.
"We were happy to get her," he said. "Through the inspections we identified her as the best filly in the sale and physically she met our criteria.
"She is big, strong with good bone and she is very well balanced and very attractive, but still possesses that femininity. She is also very reminiscent of her sire and there is a lot of him in her."
While it is still very early days, Hedge is confident the filly represents good residual value, given her very strong female family.
"The female family is also very strong, the dam herself was good and she has obviously produced Fiesta and being a filly there is also residual value there for a potential buyer. We looked at all of those factors and we thought in a strong market we would have to be pretty aggressive and we were happy to do that for her in the knowledge that she was the right article.
"In the long term, there is a different sireline there and she should be able to mated to a whole host of different stallions when she finishes up."
Hedge said he was not sure what yearling sale they will target with the filly, but believes there is plenty of upside on a well bred filly like her.
"I think he will be a stallion who will be interesting to a lot of different buyers. We are not sure yet what sale we will go to with her, but we will work that out later. We worked out her price and the premier sales we were looking at she was underneath the sale average and we rated her as a well above average filly.
"So if things don't pan out as well as we hoped we should get back what we put in, but if it did go well there was potentially a very big upside."
Later on in the afternoon, Hedge and Silverdale etched their name on the buyers sheet once again, this time for a colt by Eureka Stud resident Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo), paying Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm $190,000 for the youngster.
Catalogued as Lot 247, the colt is of dual-winning Testa Rossa (Perugino) mare Swiftly Red and she is herself a half-sister to Maribyrnong Plate (Gr 3, 1000m)-winning duo General Truce (Brief Truce) and Arctic Command (Freeze).
Spirit Of Boom stood his first four seasons at stud for a fee of $11,000 (inc GST) and then soared to $55,000 (inc GST) in 2018 off the back of the stallion being crowned champion first-season sire by number of winners in 2017/18.
The 2018 crop of yearlings were well received in the sales ring this year, with 76 selling for an aggregate of $10,528,752 at an average of $138,536 and Hedge said he was happy to put his faith in the colt at the weanling sale, believing that by the time he is offered as a yearling the stallion's best crop will be getting the results on the racetrack.
"In terms of the colts he was our number one selection on type and we felt he was the standout physical in terms of the colts." said Hedge.
"The sire had his first crop of yearlings from the better quality mares this year and they sold really well at the yearlings sales and I think there is a lot of optimism that the stallion should project the right way, so we were confident to think that by the time we sell this sold the market sentiment should be strong and people will be looking for them.
"Physically he is well and above the average, so if we are able to place him in an early sale we are fairly confident we will be able to sell him well. He looks very early. He has very good angles and he moves very well and looks very correct.
"We could even look at a Melbourne Premier with him where there is another couple of months for the better crop of Spirit Of Booms to race and get some more qudos and results happening. I just think that wherever we place him, he should be well received."
Testa Rossa is beginning to leave his mark as a good broodmare sire, with his daughters producing 19 stakes winners, headed by five Group 1 winners, including dual Group 1 winner Global Glamour (Star Witness) and 2019 Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Vow And Declare (Declaration Of War).
"He is out of a Testa Rossa mare, who is doing good things as a damsire and there are a few stakes winners there in the second generation, so those things are all quite positive," said Hedge.
The penultimate lot offered during the general weanlings section of the sale, went the way of Silverdale Farm and Hedge, with the pair going to $140,000 to secure a filly by Coolmore Stud stallion So You Think (High Chaparral) from the Burke Bloodstock draft.
Catalogued as Lot 267, the filly is out of seven time-winning Dane Shadow (Danehill) mare Eventide, who Burke Bloodstock acquired for $80,000 at the Magic Millions Naitonal Broodmare Sale in 2018.
Eventide has produced one winner from one foal to race in the shape of Tidal Impact (Shalaa), who showed her class when impressively breaking her maiden by an astonishing nine and a half lengths at Coonamble on March 14 and also produced an impressive five and half length barrier trial victory at Newcastle on Wednesday.
Hedge has liked what he has seen from Tidal Impact and that coupled with the fact she is by So You Think, he was happy to be able to secure her half-sister during Thursday's sale.
"So You Think is a very good stallion - he has had 33 stakes winners and seven Group 1 winners, there are not many stallions that can claim that and he does really well with his fillies," said Hedge.
"This had a bit of interest as well, because the half-sister Tidal Impact looks very good. She broke her maiden at a country by nine and a half lengths, but she trialed this week at Newcastle and she won by five lengths and I think they will be setting her for stakes races.
"So not only were we looking here at the stallion, who we love and respect, but we were also looking at the family and thinking if it goes the right way and develops something happens there close up, she will look quite cheap.
"If it doesn't happen we will back her with the physique of the filly, because she really is a lovely type."
Silverdale Farm and Hedge's purchases were completed by a colt by Newgate Farm-based resident Deep Field (Northern Meteor), who they purchased from the Middlebrook Valley Lodge draft for $14,000.
