Duncan’s first Karaka purchase of 2023 comes with the credentials of a proven pedigree, immense athleticism and a world-class nursery renowned for breeding Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Derby winners.
Trained by Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr, Cranbourne.
Duncan’s first Karaka purchase of 2023 comes with the credentials of a proven pedigree, immense athleticism and a world-class nursery renowned for breeding Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Derby winners.
Bought in conjunction with highly successful trainers Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr, he was a $140,000 buy from Pencarrow Stud.
Offered as Lot 287, he is by Eminent from the three-time-winning High Chaparral mare La Adelita.
His dam has already produced a winner; her first foal Ginsburg who won as a spring three-year-old over 1400 metres.
This colt is from the second crop by dual hemisphere Group 1 performer Eminent (Frankel). He won the G2 Deauville Prix Guillaume d’Ornano and G3 Newmarket Craven Stakes before running second in the G1 ATC Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill.
High Chaparral mares have produced 56 individual stakes winners, incl. Group 1 winners Suavito, Coventina Bay, A Raving Beauty, Helene Paragon, Best of Days etc.
He’s in the make and shape of DGR’s best classic and staying horses and his price tag is certainly indicative of the quality that this colt possesses.
Ownership opportunities are available to race him with DGR and top Cranbourne-based trainers Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr.
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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
“From a farm that has a history of rearing Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Derby winners, this colt eminently reminds me of the type of horse required to achieve this feat. A target horse for us for that very reason, and we secured him to go into the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr stable.”