Blue Gum Farm have announced fees for their two sires Manhattan Rain and Turffontein.
Manhattan Rain, sire of 16 individual Stakes winners including the 2017 Group One Golden Slipper Stakes winner and Champion Australian 2YO She Will Reign, will stand at a fee of $11,000.
Manhattan Rain relocated to Blue Gum Farm in 2017 and his first Victorian sired crop were in great demand at last year’s Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
There they sold up to $310,000 and averaged exceptionally well. Now racing as two-year-old’s, they are performing on the racetrack with a winners to runners ratio of 60%.
This first crop is highlighted by Cindy Alderson’s Group placed winner Jigsaw. Manhattan Rain’s second Victorian conceived crop also sold very well this year and the future certainly looks exciting for Encosta De Lago’s very best son.
The evergreen Turffontein, sire of recent multiple Stakes winners Mandela Effect and Singapore sprint star Bold Thruster, will stand at a fee of $5,500.
Turffontein has sired the Group winning millionaires Widgee Turf and Fontein Ruby and the brilliant, multiple Group winning 2YO Fontiton and he continues to produce good solid racehorses with every crop.
His latest headline act, with over $750,000 in earnings so far, is the class two- and three-year-old performer Khoekhoe. Khoekhoe won the $1,000,000 MRC Vobis Sires Showdown as a 2yo last season before returning last Spring to win the Listed VRC Super Impose Stakes. With multiple placings at Group 2 level, we are certain further successes are not too far away for this talented entire.
