$900 Inglis Digital Purchase Produces the Goods

Tara Madgwick - Thursday August 17

A new addition to the Breednet Foal Gallery is an interesting one as he’s a colt from an imported stakes-winning mare bought through Inglis Digital for just $900 last year by Craig Ruttley, who stands promising young sire Sebring Sun.

A stakes-winning son of Sebring, Sebring Sun won the 2015 Listed ATC Rosebud and was placed in the Group I ATC Golden Rose behind Exosphere. He’s been given his chance at stud standing at Glenthorne Park Thoroughbreds on the mid north coast of NSW and from limited opportunity has achieved notable success.

Sebring Sun stands at a fee of $6,600, click for more info and a Hypothetical mating.

Sebring Sun kicked off at a fee of $3,300 and his first two small crops have produced 10 winners from 21 runners with his metro winning filly Accapella Sun the star performer earning over $200,000 in prizemoney.

Promising early results led Craig Ruttley to try and find some better mares for Sebring Sun and he was lucky enough to secure quality US stakes-winner Simply Spiteful (USA) through Inglis Digital last year for $900.

The daughter of leading US sire Speightstown started life in Australia with boutique Queensland breeder Ron Gilbert at Highgrove Stud having been bought from the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale back in 2011 for US$350,000. She produced seven foals for them before Newgate Farm purchased her for $125,000 at the 2021 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

Simply Spiteful (USA), click to see her Inglis Digital sale page.

Her first foal born in North America is a four time winner and then in Australia she’s had a further six foals to race and five have won, all of them by champion sires Snitzel, Redoute’s Choice and Exceed and Excel.

Simply Spiteful produced a filly by Capitalist for Newgate that was sold as a weanling last year for $60,000 to Sheamus Mills Bloodstock and was then hastily on-sold after missing to Extreme Choice and that’s where Craig Ruttley comes in!

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Simply Spiteful and her colt foal by Sebring Sun.

“Sebring Sun has done a great job, so I’m trying to upgrade his mares and hopefully breed a stakes-winner for him,” said Craig Ruttley.

Having been covered in Australia exclusively by Danehill line sires until producing a filly by Capitalist, Simply Spiteful has a pedigree that indicates Sebring Sun might be the change up in bloodline she’s been looking for.

Her sire Speightstown is an outstanding broodmare sire, so we had a look to see how he mixed with some of the bloodlines carried by Sebring Sun.

Speightstown with Halo blood has produced 66 SW’s and 13 are G1 winners with a 6.8% SW to runner strike rate and with Deputy Minister blood there are 37 SW and four G1 winners at 5% SW to runner.

The really good stat is with More Than Ready which has produced eight SW and one G1 from 64 runners, so 12.5% SW to runner!

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