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The Autumn Sun Filly and D’Argento 10 – Bowness MM

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Friday May 31

Bowness Stud have been well pleased with the promising start for their well credentialed young sire D’Argento and if you too are a fan of the charismatic grey, you’ll be making a bee line for the Bowness draft at the MM National Yearling Sale next week with 10 of their 18 strong draft by the Group I winning son of So You Think.

D'Argento has sired two stakes horses among three winners from just eight runners.

Precocious enough to win his only two starts at the back end of his juvenile season, D’Argento trained on in brilliant fashion to be a Group I winner at three and was competitive with the best horses in the country such as Winx and Hartnell (GB) at four.

D’Argento has had just eight starters so far, but they are headed by three smart winners and two of those Rag Queen and Silva’ Suave have gained Black Type, so the future looks bright.

While D’Argento is the obvious drawcard for the Bowness draft, they will present a filly by leading third crop sire The Autumn Sun, whose fillies have been unstoppable in classic races over the last few months.

Group I winners Autumn Angel, Vibrant Sun and Coco Sun have put their sire on a path to becoming the premium source of classic type horses in Australia and Lot 1409 is bred on the same cross as Coco Sun being from a daughter of Encosta de Lago.

Lot 1409

This well related filly is a half-sister to Group III winner Sookie, the dam of dual Group I winner Shadow Hero, who both the ATC Spring Champion Stakes and Randwick Guineas. She is from unraced Purple Blood, a daughter of Champion 2YO Filly Victory Vein.

Click here to see the full draft from Bowness Stud with highlights below:

Lot 1216 Colt D’Argento x Aspiring, by I Am Invincible with third dam Group I placed stakes-winner Swiss Cotton.

Second foal of four time winning daughter of champion sire I Am Invincible

Lot 1312 Colt D’Argento x Gobelin, by Dawn Approach (IRE)

First foal of winning grand-daughter of stakes-winner Royal Show, the dam of Group winners Folding Gear and Royal Success.

Lot 1322 Colt Admire Mars (Jpn) x High Tango, by High Chaparral (IRE)

From the first crop of Champion Japanese 2YO Admire Mars and is first foal of a winning High Chaparral grand-daughter of stakes-winner Tycoon Tango.

Lot 1436 Colt D’Argento x Sarzana, by Animal Kingdom (USA)

First foal of six time winning daughter of stakes-winner Sara’s Choice.

Lot 1608 Colt D’Argento x Sarawak, by Hussonet (USA)

Fourth foal of metro winning Hussonet mare, whose first three foals are all winners! Traces back to a prolific Black Type family featuring Group I winning sire Charge Forward.

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