Magic Five for Holbrook Thoroughbreds - Pedigree Update

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Sunday December 31

Julie Harris and her team are taking five yearlings to Magic Millions including three by exciting first season sires Peltzer, Prague and King’s Legacy, whose colt from Laugh a Little has a good pedigree update from Saturday.

Half-brother by King's Legacy to A Little Deep.

To be offered as Lot 853, this quality King’s Legacy colt is a half-brother to progressive Deep Field mare A Little Deep, who posted her third win from five starts when scoring at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, A  Little Deep made $250,000 at Magic Millions when snapped up by Astute Bloodstock (FBAA)/Ciaron Maher Bloodstock and looks well capable of working through her grades towards Black Type.

A dual Group I winning juvenile by sire of sires Redoute’s Choice, King’s Legacy is the most represented first season sire at the Gold Coast this year and this colt is the third foal of well related Lonhro mare Laugh a Little, a half-sister to Group winners Crack Me Up and Hoofit from stakes-winner Chuckle.

Also to be offered by Holbrook Thoroughbreds are:

Lot 328 Colt So You Think x Vaishali, by Sepoy

Third foal of placed half-sister to South African Group I winner The Conglomerate from dual Group I winner Republic Lass and is bred on similar So You Think x Elusive Quality (sire of Sepoy) cross to Group II winning millionaire Peltzer.

Lot 1109 Colt Tassort x Corrosion, by Lonhro

By exciting young sire that has already posted three first crop winners led by Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes winner Manaal. Half-brother to a winner from unraced Lonhro half-sister to Group II winning $1.2million earner Viridine from the family of Group II winning sprinters Zapateo and Osborne Bulls. Bred on same cross as Tassort’s two time winner Astapor, who was also fourth in the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes.

Lot 1323 Colt Peltzer x Precia, by Testa Rossa

From the first crop of So You Think’s brilliant sprinter miler Peltzer and is the second foal of a metro winning Testa Rossa mare from the family of Group II winner Glory and Girl and stakes-winners British Lion and British General. Bred on very successful So You Think (sire of Peltzer) x Testa Rossa nick that has produced nine winners from 10 runners including G3 winner Dirty Thoughts and SW Regardsmaree.

Lot 1371 Filly Prague x Scatcat, by Shaft

From the first crop of Group III winning Redoute’s Choice son Prague, who made $1.6million as a yearling. Half-sister to two winners from a  five time winning mare from the family of stakes-winner Guess What.

Lot 1469 Colt Winning Rupert x Filly of Steel by Charge Forward

By a proven and prolific sire of winners in Winning Rupert and is third foal of a sister to Group III placed Bradman and Zaragoza from the family of Group II winning sprinters Zapateo, Viridine and Osborne Bulls.

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