The owner breeder sector of the bloodstock world got a good result in Adelaide on Saturday when progressive three year-old filly Lingani won the Listed SAJC Lightning Stakes and while her blue-blood sire America is no longer standing at stud, he does have a brother-in-blood that is standing at Gunnamah Stud in Victoria this spring.
A first stakes-winner for her trainers Peter and Belinda Blanch, Lingani advances her record to four wins and two seconds from eight starts with earnings of $183,395, not a bad return for a filly that was bred from a service fee of $4,400.
A homebred for a large ownership group, Lingani is the second winner from as many live foals for the De Beers mare Betty Butterscotch, whose lone win in 17 starts came at her debut at Strathalbyn. Click here to read the full story on Lingani.
Lingani is the best of 11 winners from 27 runners sired by America, who stood for four seasons at Rosden Park in South Australia and covered 93 mares.
By champion sire Snitzel from champion filly Alinghi, America was bred at Arrowfield and made $1.8million as a yearling and is a brother-in-blood to Oceanity, who was also an expensive yearling purchase fetching $1million when sold by Arrowfield in 2017.
America failed to win in three starts, however Oceanity did find the winner’s circle with a victory and three placings from six starts.
He too is by Snitzel and is a three-quarter brother to ill-fated sire Beneteau from stakes-placed Slice of Paradise, a full sister to Alinghi.
Beneteau is one of those stallions you always wonder as to what we might have missed out on.
He stood for just two seasons at Arrowfield at a fee of $11,000 and those two crops produced 131 foals of which 107 raced and 78 won with 73% winners to runners and an impressive 9.3% SW to runner with his 10 stakes-winners headed by Group I winning fillies Prompt Response and Lasqueti Spirit.
Given the worth of his pedigree you can see why Gunnamah Stud’s Rod Maher decided to roll the dice on Oceanity when he saw him offered in an Inglis Digital Sale.
Maher has developed his property at Geelong from a former cattle farm to a thoroughbred breeding operation and Oceanity is the first stallion to take up residence.
“He was a December yearling that still sold for $1million,” Maher said.
“I think he probably got pushed too hard early and then there was an attempt made to get him back racing as a six year-old which didn’t work out so he ended up in an online sale.
“He covered 27 mares in his first season last year – mostly through friends with broodmares – and 18 of them are on farm, but I believe that 24 of the 27 are in foal.”
Oceanity stands at a fee of $4,400 and you can call Rod Maher on 0417 054 568.
