Cream of first crop a cornerstone for Aysar

Media Release - Friday September 12

Entries close today for the 2026 Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale and among the highlights will be the cream of the first crop by Geisel Park sire Aysar.

Aysar, click for more info and a hypo mating.

Geisel Park owner Eddie Rigg has entered 22 yearlings for the Swan Valley Sale in February with a standout selection of Aysar colts and fillies heading the consignment that will be prepped by stud manager Conor Dunlop.

“We’re delighted with our first Aysar foals and the feedback from our clients has been overwhelming,” Dunlop reported this week.  “One of WA’s most respected studmasters told us Aysar can become the cornerstone of our industry if the foals he’s bred are any guide.

“Our Aysar colt from Don’t Call Me (Snippetson) is an early August foal and is a powerful, forward yearling for the Magic Millions.  The dam is a full-sister to Rebelson who was a 2yo winner for Darren McAuliffe and he trained on to win the Fairetha Stakes and Aquanita Stakes.

“There’s also a nice Aysar filly from Rosebank (Helmet).  We bought the mare at the Magic Millions National Sale and her unraced colt No No No No No (Yes Yes Yes) won a 3yo jump-out for Lindsey Smith at Ararat on Monday morning.

“The Aysar colt from French Quarter (Fiorente) looks fantastic and the dam is a three-quarter sister to Storyville who won the WA Guineas and Champion Fillies last year.”  Dunlop also mentioned the Aysar yearling colt from Flaming Magic (Brief Truce).  The dam is a half-sister to G3 Asian Beau Stakes winners Heart Starter and Suspicion and G2 Perth Cup heroine Real Love.

Aysar is stamping his progeny with the presence, power and physique that attracted leading bloodstock agent John Chalmers shortly after he retired in 2023.  “He’s the best-credentialed sire prospect to cross my desk in the last 10 years or more,” Chalmers explained after sealing the deal.  “I feel most fortunate to have been able to secure a horse of his quality to stand at Geisel Park.”

Aysar was trained at Lindsay Park for a Sandown Lakeside victory at two before returning in the spring to finish a neck second to Ole Kirk in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m).  He trained on to claim an all-important black-type victory that sealed a stud career in the LR Chautauqua Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.   “He’s a lovely, lengthy horse and looks fantastic,” co-trainer J D Hayes said.  “He’s a very good physical specimen with a terrific motor and it was just good to see him put them to the sword today.”

Aysar (Deep Field) is a half-brother to Group 1 winning Coolmore Stud sire Home Affairs (I Am Invincible) who has his first-crop 2yo colts and fillies ready to debut next month.  

They were both bred and sold by Torryburn Stud and they’re both by Northern Dancer-line stallions while their dam Miss Interiors (Flying Spur) is a half-sister to Group 1 racehorse and sire Russian Revolution (Snitzel).

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“I loved Aysar,” Torryburn Stud’s Melissa Copelin recalled this week.  “We bought the dam carrying Aysar and I foaled him down in the middle of the day!  He was always a cracking looker and the good judges were on him at the Magic Millions.

“I’ve seen the photos of the Aysar foals in WA and they’re clones of Home Affairs.”

Home Affairs is a half-brother to Aysar.

Home Affairs retired to stud twelve months before Aysar and he’s one of the favourites to be crowned Champion Australian First-Season Sire in 2025-26 after record-breaking yearling sale results earlier this year.  His filly from Sunlight (Zoustar) fetched $3.2 million to the bid of Mitsu Nakauchida at the Gold Coast Magic Millions and was exported to Japan the following month.  She has been named Lia La La.

His colt from Shout The Bar (Not A Single Doubt) made $3 million at the Inglis Easter Sale in Sydney to the bid of Randwick trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott who have 10 youngsters by Home Affairs at Tulloch Lodge.  “He’s a standout and it’s a testament to the type,” Bott said.  “Home Affairs is siring strong, forward, precocious types and it was our intention to focus on his yearlings.  They’re thriving and not taking a backward step in their early preps.”

Chris Waller bought 13 by Home Affairs and also expects them to be prominent when the Sydney 2yo season commences with the G3 Breeders Plate (1000m) and G3 Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) at Randwick in three weeks.  “We’re amazed how well they’ve come through the system.  They’re good natured, eat up and cope with the work.  The potential is there to go early with the capacity to train on.  And the staff like them because they’re easy to handle.”

The Aysars are showing similar traits and he’s currently covering his third book at Geisel Park for an $8,800 (inc GST) service fee.  Geisel Park has is strongly supporting him once again this this year with at least 12 mares.  For bookings or further information, contact Conor Dunlop on 0447 434 735.

Magic Millions Sales Director David Chester had the last say and he mentioned a salient point for broodmare owners evaluating the positives of booking into Aysar. 

“Besides being one of the best stallions to enter Western Australia in recent years, he’s also a son of Deep Field,” Chester said on Friday. 

“He was a champion stallion in Hong Kong and they love the sireline up the there.”

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