This colt represents the best of American bloodlines, being a son of US Horse of the Year Justify, from the multiple 2YO winning Lonhro mare Childhood (USA). He is a promising classic style of colt and will be trained by entrusted DGR trainer John Sargent.
Trained by John Sargent, Randwick.
DGR’s Duncan Ramage and trainer John Sargent combined on day four of selling at the Magic Millions Yearling sale to purchase a colt by Triple Crown winner Justify from the imported Lonhro mare Childhood (USA).
Purchased for $280,000 from Coolmore Stud, this colt just oozed class and ticked all the boxes for Duncan.
A true Champion in his own right, Justify took out the highly esteemed American Triple Crown and made history when retiring to stud as the first Triple Crown winner to remain unbeaten.
He’s the Leading First Season Sire in Australia and his progeny include $2 million Inglis Millennium and G3 Widden Stakes winner Learning To Fly, plus first crop northern hemisphere Group 1 winner Arabian Lion.
From Justify’s northern and southern hemisphere crops, he has sired 11 individual stakes horses and boasts a phenomenal 8.4% stakes winners/runners strike rate.
This colt’s dam recorded back-to-back wins as a two-year-old and is from a family packed full of black-type performers. She is a half-sister to stakes winners Baby J, Laureate Conductor and Lavender Chrissie, plus stakes performers Gossamer Wings and Que Posse.
His damsire Lonhro is doing an excellent job as a broodmare sire with his daughters producing 58 individual stakes winners, including top-tier Group winners Gatting, Golden Mile, Osborne Bulls, So Si Bon etc.
Duncan and John Sargent have enjoyed immense success together, with the most recent Group winner being 2022 G3 Carbine Club Stakes winner Perfect Thought who was purchased through this very sale.
Ownership opportunities are available to race this colt with the winning combination of DGR and John Sargent.
Get in touch with Duncan for more information.
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.
By leading 2yo sire Extreme Choice from the multiple Group winner Istanford (USA), this filly was raised at the top Golden Slipper-producing nursery of Newgate Farm and will get every opportunity of success under the guidance of Anthony Cummings, the trainer of her sire’s best daughter and DGR’s up-and-coming 2yo Group placegetter Extreme Diva.
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.
Duncan's Comments
“Justify is 'justifying' his wraps in the USA as a Horse of the Year and is now a leading first-crop sire with some interesting 2yo’s down under. This colt is a lovely bay classic style of horse out a Lonhro mare who was a fast multiple 2yo winner herself in Ireland and from a family that has already produced multiple stakes winners with the prematurely deceased sire Scat Daddy. A lot to like in this package.”