Strong, robust colt from the first Southern Hemisphere crop by G1 winning two and three-year-old Caravaggio. He is out of the sprint-winning Lonhro mare Kimblewick and was purchased for A$170,000 from Lime Country’s Magic Millions Yearling draft.
Trained by Anthony Cummings, Royal Randwick
This precocious style of colt caught the eye of DGR’s Duncan Ramage and was immediately identified as an athlete who was bred and built to sprint.
This colt is from the first Southern Hemisphere crop by Coolmore Stud’s Champion Three-year-old Sprinter in Ireland, Caravaggio.
A Group One-winning two and three-year-old, Caravaggio was unbeaten as a juvenile, winning the G1 Curragh Phoenix Stakes, G2 Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes, Listed Curragh Marble Hill Stakes and Dundalk Irish Stallion Farms 2YO Maiden Stakes.
He returned in his three-year-old year to win three from six starts, including the G1 Royal Ascot Commonwealth Cup, G2 Curragh Flying Five Stakes and G3 Naas Lacken Stakes.
Caravaggio has already stamped himself as one of the Northern Hemisphere’s leading First Season Sires and, to date, has sired 15 individual winners, including stakes winners; Agartha, Dizzy Bizu and Her World.
Purchased from Lime Country Thoroughbreds for A$170,000, this colt is the second foal out of the young sprint-winning Lonhro mare, Kimblewick.
She won over 1000 metres in Australia as a three-year-old and is a half-sister to 8-time winner Table Bay who scored Group wins in the G3 Kenilworth Cape Classic and G3 Langerman Handicap.
The colt’s pedigree is packed with speed with dual hemisphere Group One-winning sprinter Cape of Good Hope appearing in his immediate pedigree.
Duncan Ramage is no stranger to success with Coolmore Stud’s first season sires having found this combination to work with the progeny of High Chaparral and Danehill in their early years.
This colt is currently in work at Royal Randwick with Group One trainer Anthony Cummings and with Think Big Stud in the ownership, he will race in their iconic silks.
These silks have been worn in the Golden Slipper before so, who knows, they may feature again in the 2022 running of the race…
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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
“Nearly all the Caravaggio’s impressed as natural athletic horses. This colt was the best of them at the sale and Caravaggio has already sired multiple 2YO stakes winners in Europe which is encouraging.”