Duncan and prominent training duo Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr went to $280,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale to secure a son of The Autumn Sun, and the impeccably related Encosta de Lago mare, Madam Tracy (Lot 234).
Trained by Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr, Cranbourne
This colt is from the highly anticipated first crop of yearlings by 5-time G1 winner and Champion 3YO Colt in Australia, The Autumn Sun.
In just nine starts over 11 months, The Autumn Sun rocketed to stardom with an escalating series of championship victories that rank him with Australia’s best colts of the past quarter-century, including his own legendary sire, Redoute’s Choice.
This colt’s dam Madam Tracy won over 1100m and has produced two-time sprint winner, Tracy May who is a three-quarter sister to this colt.
He hails from an impeccable family with just two dams on the page. His dam is a three-quarter sister to the dam of G1 VRC Australian Guineas winner Alligator Blood and a half-sister to Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy and Stakes winner Red Element.
His dam sire Encosta de Lago has proven to be a potent broodmare sire and has claimed the title of leading Australian Broodmare Sire on multiple occasions.
His daughters have produced 16 individual G1 winners and 133 Stakes winners, including Alabama Express, Invader, Aligator Blood, Happy Clapper, Impending, Japonisme etc.
Purchased out of the successful nursery at Element Hill, this colt is an outstanding individual and very reminiscent of his sire with plenty of rein, depth and class.
This colt is fully subscribed.
An outstanding filly by leading New Zealand sire Per Incanto from Winter Sky (IRE), an Invincible Spirit half-sister to Transfers, the dam of Group 1 winner Tom Kitten and stakes winners Va Via and Promotions. This filly was bred and raised at one of New Zealand’s very best nurseries, Little Avondale, a stud famed for producing 41 individual Group 1 winners.
In the make and shape of his leading sire, So You Think, this colt is from the 3yo stakes performer Valley Sweetheart. Hailing from a front-running family, he represented great buying very early on at Inglis Classic and is a type that is destined to follow in the footsteps of So You Think’s best progeny.
With loads of natural muscle, strength and a top pedigree on her side, this filly was a compelling buy for DGR’s Duncan Ramage. By the Group-winning Invincible Spirit stallion Ancient Spirit, she is from an impeccably related mare from one of New Zealand’s most distinguished nurseries.
A beautifully bred filly by exciting freshman So You Think stallion Peltzer. Her Not a Single Doubt dam was unbeaten as a juvenile and is already doing an excellent job at stud, producing a stakes-winning 2yo in Lord Cosmos.
An embodiment of speed in every conceivable aspect, this filly has the precocity, class and scope to be a top two-year-old and beyond. By exciting freshman sire Anders, she is from the Group-producing mare Think Icon, a daughter of up and coming Group 1 2yo damsire So You Think.
Duncan's Comments
“Buying a yearling from the first crop by Champion 3YO, The Autumn Sun was a target for us and this colt was one of the best examples at the sale. He's from a sterling family and comes from a leading nursery so ticked all the boxes for us.”