Emerging second-season sire KERMADEC provided a history-making result on Saturday as MONTEFILIA became the first ever fill to annex the Flight Stakes-Spring Champion Stakes double.

Inaugurated in 1971, the Spring Champion Stakes honour roll includes turf legends such as KINGSTON TOWN (1979), SIR DAPPER (1983), STYLISH CENTURY (1989), TIE THE KNOT (1997), SAVABEEL (2004), and IT’S A DUNDEEL (2012).

Last Saturday MONTEFILIA joined that esteemed list and in doing so claimed a slice of her own history, having also won the Group 1 Flight Stakes only seven days prior.

She is surely the benchmark three-year-old filly in Australia at the moment and is a major coup for her sire KERMADEC, who not surprisingly now leads the second-season sire standings by prizemoney.

His yearlings have sold for up to $520,000 in the auction ring which emphasises the quality he throws in his stock.

As alluded to in last week’s edition of In The Blood, KERMADEC has the rare honour of having won Group 1 races under both handicap and weight-for-age conditions. Out of the current top 50 Australian sires, only FASTNET ROCK (70.9% winners/runners strike rate) and NICCONI (68.7% winners/runners strike rate) can make the same claim.

The KERMADEC x LOVE FOR RANSOM colt purchased by Proven earlier this year has some shares remaining at $2,886.40 + GST per 2.5%. LOVE FOR RANSOM (by RED RANSOM) is a half-sister to Group 1 placegetter FRENCH EMOTION.

RED RANSOM is the broodmare sire of more than 250 stakes winners worldwide and captured his latest Group 1 scalp as recent as last Saturday via ODEUM in the Thousand Guineas.

ODEUM was the middle leg of an amazing treble for sire-of-the-moment WRITTEN TYCOON whose offspring also won the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (OLE KIRK) and Group 2 Schillaci Stakes (DIRTY WORK).

On the first-season sire front, EXTREME CHOICE bagged his first stakes placegetter with just his third starter on Saturday when EXTREME WARRIOR ran an encouraging second in the Listed Debutant Stakes at Caulfield.

EXTREME CHOICE has already rolled out several babies at the trials despite a first crop of just 48 live foals! We have just 10% left in an EXTREME CHOICE filly out of WILDLY ENTERTAINED (by FORESTRY). She’s about to recommence work with trainer Steve O’Dea and is showing similar precocity to her sire and his offspring. Share prices start at an affordable $1,863.6 + GST for 2.5%.

See below for a full summary of the latest feature race results and how they correlate with the pedigrees of our 2020 yearlings.


SIRES

WRITTEN TYCOON

1st OLE KIRK (Gr 1 Caulfield Guineas 1600m)
1st ODEUM (Gr 1 Thousand Guineas 1600m)
1st DIRTY WORK (Gr 2 Schillaci Stakes 1100m)

WRITTEN TYCOON x DIVA DEE 2yo c SOLD
KERMADEC

1st MONTEFILIA (Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes 2000m)

KERMADEC x LOVE FOR RANSOM 2yo c SHARES AVAILABLE
I AM INVINCIBLE

1st FIESTA (Gr 3 Northwood Plume Stakes 1200m)
1st FAKE LOVE (Listed Debutant Stakes 1000m)
2nd ON THE LEAD (Gr 2 Roman Consul Stakes 1200m)
2nd MUNTASEERA (Gr 3 Thoroughbred Club Stakes 1200m)
3rd OCTANE (Gr 2 Schillaci Stakes 1200m)

I AM INVINCIBLE x AMELIA’S DREAM 2yo c SOLD
I AM INVINCIBLE x SWEET KISS 2yo f SOLD
NOT A SINGLE DOUBT

3rd INSTANT CELEBRITY (Gr 1 Thousand Guineas 1600m)
3rd DOUBTLAND (Gr 2 Roman Consul Stakes 1200m)

NOT A SINGLE DOUBT x DESCENT 2yo c SHARES AVAILABLE
EXTREME CHOICE

2nd EXTREME WARRIOR (Listed Debutant Stakes 1000m)

EXTREME CHOICE x WILDLY ENTERTAINED 2yo f ALMOST SOLD!
SEBRING

1st EMERALDS (Gr 3 Angst Stakes 1600m)
3rd SUPERSTORM (Gr 1 Toorak Handicap 1600m)

SEBRING x SILK SLIPPERS 2yo f SHARES AVAILABLE
SEBRING x TINTO 2yo f SOLD
DUNDEEL

1st AIN’TNODEELDUN (Listed Hill Smith Stakes 1800m)
2nd VICTORIA QUAY (Listed Hill Smith Stakes 1800m)

DUNDEEL x VARSITY BLUES 2yo f SHARES AVAILABLE
SO YOU THINK

1st PELTZER (Gr 2 Stan Fox Stakes 1500m)
2nd NIMALEE (Gr 3 Angst Stakes 1600m)

SO YOU THINK x TIARE 2yo c SOLD
SPILL THE BEANS

3rd PASSING PHASE (Listed Hill Smith Stakes 1800m)

SPILL THE BEANS x M’INDIGO 2yo f SOLD
SPILL THE BEANS x FAIRYTALE BELLE 2yo f SOLD
RUBICK

3rd JET PROPULSION (Gr 2 Stan Fox Stakes 1500m)

RUBICK x TIGER EYES 2yo f SOLD
RUBICK x CITY OF SONG 2yo f SOLD

BROODMARE SIRES

BEL ESPRIT

1st OLE KIRK (Gr 1 Caulfield Guineas 1600m)
1st SWATS THAT (Gr 3 Thoroughbred Club Stakes 1200m)

RUBICK x CITY OF SONG 2yo f SOLD
REDOUTE’S CHOICE

1st ARCADIA QUEEN (Gr 1 Caulfield Stakes 2000m)
2nd MUNTASEERA (Gr 3 Thoroughbred Club Stakes 1200m)
3rd BUCHAREST (Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes 2000m)
3rd PASSING PHASE (Listed Hill Smith Stakes 1800m)

WRITTEN TYCOON x DIVA DEE 2yo f SOLD
RED RANSOM

1st ODEUM (Gr 1 Thousand Guineas 1600m)

KERMADEC x LOVE FOR RANSOM 2yo c SHARES AVAILABLE
FLYING SPUR

2nd AYSAR (Gr 1 Caulfield Guineas 1600m)
3rd JET PROPULSION (Gr 2 Stan Fox Stakes 1500m)

SO YOU THINK x TIARE 2yo c SOLD
ZOUSTAR x LE HAVRE 2yo f SHARES AVAILABLE
ENCOSTA DE LAGO

3rd OCTANE (Gr 2 Schillaci Stakes 1100m)

WRITTEN TYCOON x DIVA DEE 2yo f SOLD
FASTNET ROCK

1st FAKE LOVE (Listed Debutant Stakes 1000m)

SPILL THE BEANS x M’INDIGO 2yo f SOLD
BETTER THAN READY x RIDOLFI 2yo f SHARES AVAILABLE
PEINTRE CELEBRE

3rd ARCHEDEMUS (Listed Weekend Hussler Handicap 1400m)

TIVACI x FORFROCKSAKES 2yo c SHARES AVAILABLE
SHAMARDAL

2nd FELICIA (Gr 3 Northwood Plume Stakes 1200m)

CHOISIR x SHAMANA 2yo f SHARES AVAILABLE

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