Bowness Stud Value at Inglis Gold

Media Release - Tuesday April 19

The Bowness Stud sales team heads back to the scene of one its finest achievements when offering another value-packed draft at the 2022 Inglis Gold Yearling Sale at Oaklands in Melbourne this week.

A popular auction which provides Victorian’ trainers and other stables in surrounding areas the opportunity to add some fresh racing prospects to their books without spending a King’s Ransom, the 2019 visit of Bowness Stud probably best illustrates the calibre of racehorse the annual assembly can provide. It also reflects the quality of bloodstock the Young-based nursery is producing as one of the thoroughbred industry’s quiet achievers.

Media Award was bred and sold as a yearling by Bowness Stud.

Sold by Bowness Stud for a very modest $5000 at this same gathering three years ago was a slender daughter of Shamus Award which stud principal John North bred out of the More Than Ready (USA) mare Music Media. The same filly has since carried the ‘JN’ brand with great distinction and is now universally known as Media Award — winner of last season’s Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) for Euroa-based trainer Chris Calthorpe.

Already established as a Group 1 nursery following the feats of Trapeze Artist, Youngstar and Funstar in preceding seasons, Media Award became another example of the elite performers being bred, foaled, raised and/or sold by the North family on behalf of themselves and their clients. 

The steady succession of notable black-type and/or feature race winning graduates to have followed establish beyond any reasonable doubt that the Bowness Stud consignment to be offered at Oaklands this Thursday has the potential to unearth more gems to be secured at a fraction of the prices seen on the Gold Coast at the beginning of the year or in Sydney in more recent weeks. The fact is, Bowness Stud is forging an enviable reputation for itself by selling top-quality racing talent at the lower-end of the domestic bloodstock market. 

Prime examples of that point include Group 2 Herbert Power winner Chapada, now the winner of $1.2 million in prizemoney; Group 1 performed sprinter Indian Pacific, whose west- and east-coast exploits have reaped close to $600,000 for his connections; Miss Charlie Brown, recent winner of the Listed Strutt Stakes in Tasmania; and Another One, whose victory in the $500,000 Country Championships during The Championships in Sydney took his earnings to $783,920.

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What puts this list of notable gallopers bred, foaled, raised and/or sold by Bowness Stud into perspective is the fact that all but one of them was bought for a five-figure sum — $500,000 Country Championships winner Another One for as little as $18,000.

Another One was bred and sold by Bowness Stud.

Bowness Stud’s 2022 Inglis Gold Yearling Sale draft includes a couple of colts by Another One’s sire Super One, plus half-a-dozen colts and fillies by Bon Hoffa, a stallion which continues to come up with notable Melbourne performers such as this season’s Group 2 MRC Thousand Guineas Prelude winner and Group 1 VRC Australian Guineas placegetter Bon’s a Pearla.

The exploits of Media Award and the like is proof positive that the Bowness Inglis Gold offering spent its formative days on a property with a proven record of producing the goods.

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