3YO Sires
Snitzel's sire, the legendary Arrowfield favourite Redoute's Choice sits atop
the three year-old sires list with his absolutely outstanding colt The Autum Sun,
his star performer. Winner of the Group I ATC Golden Rose and MRC Caulfield Guineas,
The Autumn Sun will eventually retire to his birthplace at Arrowfield Stud.Zoustar is the big mover here, zooming into second place following a great spring that has seen him with the Group I trifecta in the VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes – Sunlight, Zousain and Lean Mean Machine - and another new Group III winner in Charge. Interestingly, this Widden Stud based son of Northern Meteor is from a daughter of Redoute's Choice.
Aquis Farm's Domesday shot into the list with his Victoria Derby winning son Extra Brut, but that was no fluke as he is actually the third Derby winner for this under-rated son of Red Ransom (USA) that consistently produces Group I class horses. Domesday traces in tail female line to Best in Show, who is also the fourth dam of Redoute's Choice.
2YO Sires
Yarraman Park's I Am Invincible has made a fast start with three winners and all
of them are stakes-winners – Catch Me, Espaaniyah and Vinicunca. He's always promised
to win a Champion 2YO Sire title and maybe this will be his season.Lyndhurst Stud's first season horse Better Than Ready already has three winners on the board which is two more than any of his other first season rivals, so he's sitting pretty heading into the 2019 yearling sale season.
A fast precocious stakes-winning
son of More Than Ready (USA), Better Than Ready comes from a very fast female
family going back to former star 2YO Rancher, so to see him jump quickly into
stride as a sire is hardly a surprise.
Coolmore's
champion sire Fastnet Rock had the Champion 2YO in New Zealand last season in
Avantage and may have some nice juveniles again this season if blue-blooded debut
metro winners Anaheed and Pelican are any indication.
