That colt is the Chris Waller trained Performer, who overcame difficulty to
score a dominant win in the Listed ATC Breeders Plate back in the spring.The son of Exceed and Excel clocked a brilliant 56.82 seconds in winning his debut setting up a benchmark for his peers that has yet to be matched.
Performer (image Steve Hart) will seek to follow in the Golden Slipper winning footsteps of recent ATC Breeder's Plate winners such as Capitalist, Vancouver and Pierro and if he does happen to win will become the fifth Golden Slipper winner to emerge from the Boorowa paddocks of Newhaven Park joining Prowl, Burst, Vivarchi and John's Hope.
Newhaven Park bred and sold Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Unencumbered in
2013 and his purchaser and trainer Bjorn Baker will be chasing success in the
$2million 3YO Guineas this Saturday with another Newhaven Park purchase in
Goodfella (image Steve Hart) .A stakes-winner at Randwick in the spring, Goodfella has already won nearly $400,000 and is in good form with a last start third to boom colt Pierata in the Group III BRC Vo Rogue Plate.
Newhaven Park will present 28 yearlings, click here for the full draft with highlights below and pedigree notes from Newhaven:
Lot 464 Colt Deep Field x Zelsnitz, by Snitzel
From the first crop of Northern Meteor's record breaking son Deep Field out of the Listed-winning Snitzel mare Zelsnitz, a half-sister to the dam of Listed winner Royal Ocean, from the international family of Holy Roman Emperor (Group 1 winner and Group 1 sire), $5 million broodmare, Group III winner Milanova, with the extended pedigree including Encosta de Lago and Flying Spur.
Zelsnitz has two winners from three foals to race, and this colt is arguably the best bred.
Lot 717 Colt Medaglia D'Oro (USA) x Fashion, by Encosta de Lago
By exciting sire Medaglia d'Oro, who was represented by seven individual Group 1 winners in 2017, with the only other American stallions to have as many in a single year being Mr. Prospector, Danzig and Storm Cat.
This colt is the third foal out of the dual-winning, Listed placed Encosta de Lago mare Fashion, a half-sister to the Listed-winning, Group 1 fourth placed Villain, both out of the Group I Blue Diamond winner True Jewels.
Daughters of Encosta de Lago have produced 133 stakes performers, including 12 Group 1 winners – Hasahalo, Mighty Boss, Happy Clapper, Summer Passage, Invader, Impending and Divine Prophet to name a few.
Lot 784 Colt Brazen Beau x Gypsy Diamond, by Not a Single Doubt
From the first crop of the Darley-based Brazen Beau, an impressive winner of the stallion making Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes of his Spring 3yo season before backing it up in the Autumn to defeat Chautauqua, Terravista, Lankan Rupee, Delectation and Driefontein in the Group 1 VRC Newmarket Handicap.
He is the first foal of the very talented, Group II winning, Group I placed Not A Single Doubt mare Gypsy Diamond.
Lot 799 Filly Not a Single Doubt x Hello (USA), by Smoke Glacken
By Not A Single Doubt, a stallion that really needs no introduction – with 93 stakes performers he is one of Australia's most consistent sires. He has eight Group 1 winners to his credit including Extreme Choice, Miracles Of Life and this season's Caulfield Guineas winner Mighty Boss.
This bay filly is the first foal of the five-time-winning Hello, a Smoke Glacken half-sister to the stakes-placed Just Hoping from the family of Group 1 winner Smart Bid.
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American-bred mares have a great record in Australia having produced numerous G1 winners including Mr Stunning, Foxplay, Russian Revolution, Delectation, Prince Of Penzance, All American, Alverta, Foxwedge, Gallica, Irish Lights, Maldivian, Mentality, Northern Meteor, etc.
Lot 804 Filly Not a Single Doubt x Hoist, by Zeditave
Another by Not a Single Doubt, this bay filly is the third foal of the eight-time-winning Zeditave mare Hoist, a half-sister to the Group III placed Blue Swift.
The current 2yo out of the mare is a Smart Missile colt named Nuke, a $75,000 Inglis Classic purchase for Blueblood Thoroughbreds, who started his first campaign in November with a second place before beaten just over two lengths at Rosehill at his second start.
Zeditave mares have produced 79 stakes performers highlighted by Group I winners Reset, Set Square and Sacred Kingdom. The Redoute's Choice x Zeditave cross that this filly is bred on has produced 27 winners led by the multiple Group II winner In Her Time, a winner of $1.4m.
Lot 832 Colt Redoute's Choice x Invest by Dehere (USA)
By legendary sire Redoute's Choice, the sire of over $140 million in progeny earnings highlighted by 152 stakes winners, of which 32 are Group 1 winners including Group 1 producing sires Snitzel and Stratum.
This colt has the pedigree to become a stallion. He is the second foal of Group I winning Dehere mare Invest, a daughter of Group 1 Flight Stakes winner Unearthly, who in turn is a daughter of the Listed winner Snippets' Crown – first three dams are all stakes winners.
Mares by Dehere have had a great record in the breeding barn, producing 184 stakes horses including 11 Group I winners headed by Forensics, Hauraki, Kidnapped, and Rebel Raider.
Come and see our horses at Stable G 3-25, 30-31, 34-36.
