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Darley Sires Dominate Flemington Carnival

Tara Madgwick - Monday November 12
Four days of champagne racing at Flemington over the Melbourne Cup Carnival draws together many of the best horses in Australia and now the world so it's always worth looking at which sires made an impact on the biggest stage in Australian racing.

Some 26 stakes race were won by 25 horses with Lonhro filly Aristia the only two time stakes-winner taking out both the Group II VRC Wakeful Stakes on the Saturday and then the Group I VRC Oaks on The Thursday.

Lonhro led the charge for Darley sires at FlemingtonShe has the distinction of being the first classic winner for champion sire Lonhro, who also sired the Darley homebred colt Ranier to win the Group III VRC Carbine Club Stakes for Godolphin.

The success of Lonhro was but the tip of the iceberg for Darley stallions, who dominated this meeting.

The following Flemington stakes-winners are all sired by Darley sires past or present and we will include Extra Brut, whose former Darley based sire Domesday is now at Aquis, but was still Darley when he was conceived.

G1Cross Counter (GB) (Teofilo (IRE))
G1Extra Brut (Domesday)
G1 Trap for Fools (Poet's Voice (GB)
G1 Aristia (Lonhro)
G2 Aristia (Lonhro)
G2 Osborne Bulls (Street Cry (IRE)
G3 Ranier (Lonhro)
G3 A Prince of Arran (IRE) (Shirocco, stood at Dalham Hall, but never shuttled
G3 Divine Quality (Sepoy)
G3 Jaameh (IRE) (Iffraaj (GB), shuttled to New Zealand and still stands at Dalham Hall)
L Pohukutawa (Medaglia D'Oro (USA)
L Thermal Current (Exceed and Excel)

That's 12 of 26 Black Type races won by the progeny of Darley based sires or 46%, quite a statistic and also interesting is that only one of those stallions is a Danehill line sire and that was Exceed and Excel.



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