Blue Gum Farm are prepared to be busy this week ahead of the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale (June 13) with a draft of 22 and eight of them are from the first crop of the farm’s exciting young sire Sejardan.
A brilliant juvenile by Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring, Sejardan has been generating plenty of positive vibes following weanling sales in Sydney and the Gold Coast where his weanlings did the talking.
Off a modest fee of $13,750, Sejardan achieved impressive results that have put him firmly on the radar for breeders and investors looking for that next unheralded sire to emerge as a commercial force.
In Australia, champion sires I Am Invincible and Written Tycoon have risen from humble beginnings to climb all the way to the very top of the tree, while Spirit of Boom and Better Than Ready have dominated in Queensland.
Of the younger brigade it’s hard to look past Tassort, who has covered 200 plus books of mares in his past two seasons and started off at a fee of $11,000.
Could Sejardan follow in their footsteps?
At the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, Sejardan had six youngsters sell at an average $54,000 with top sellers being an $80,000 filly from Crinzia and a filly from Captured and colt from Sharnee Rose that both sold for $70,000.
At Magic Millions National, Sejardan did even better with four youngsters averaging $81,250 and he had his first seven figure sale with a colt from Statuette offered by Blue Gum Farm fetching $130,000 when bought by Kestrel Thoroughbreds. Blue Gum Farm also sold fillies from Miss Norway and Neighbourhood for $80,000 each and they went to great judges in Bevan Smith Bloodstock and Belmont Bloodstock.
Lot 63 Colt Sejardan x Express Street, by Street Sense (USA)
Quality colt from an outstanding family! Half-brother to four winners including Suances, who won at Sandown since the catalogue went to print and has two wins and five placings from eight starts for the Moody / Coleman stable.
From a half-sister to triple Group I winner Sea Siren, the dam of triple Group I winner Warm Heart with the family also producing Group I winning sprinter Ruthless Dame. Two dams on the page and Black Type all the way.
Lot 201 Colt Sejardan x Ready Cuz, by More Than Ready (USA)
From stakes-placed Ready Cuz, who has done a super job at stud with four foals to race all winners including this season’s two year-old winner Bliss Bomb.
From the family of Group I winning 2YO Colt Move to Strike and is line bred to champion sires More than Ready and Encosta d Lago, 2 x 3 and 3 x 4.
Lot 47 Colt Doubtland x Dual Star, by Starcraft
By promising young sire Doubtland, who has left four winners to date and this well marked colt is a half-brother to Group III placed Roselyn’s Star, stakes-placed Shalstar and smart HK winner King’s Capital. Third dam is Group I VATC Blue Diamond Stakes winner True Jewels.
Lot 72 Colt Toronado (IRE) x Fleet of Foot, by Toorak Toff
Bred by Manningtree Park ( Darren and Liz Dance and partners) and offered on their behalf with the sale of their property marking the end of an era. This colt is by top class sire Toronado and is half-brother to a winner from an unraced half-sister to Champion Sprinter Santa Ana Lane, a five time G1 winner of over $8.2million.
Lot 190 Colt Jacquinot x Positive Charge, by Charge Forward
From the first crop of dual Group I winner Jacquinot. Half-brother to metro 2YO winner Miss in Charge and is from stakes-placed Positive Charge, a sister to multiple Group winner Slightly Sweet.
Lot 248 Filly Flying Artie x Sutton Forest, by Pierro
By proven G1 sire Flying Artie, whose brilliant daughter Asfoora won the Group I King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot last year. From a winning daughter of juvenile stakes-winner Pinezero and the 2YO from the mare Diacon (f by Tassort) won a Warwick Farm barrier trial last month for the Bjorn Baker stable.
