An impeccably bred colt purchased from Arrowfield Stud by Champion 3YO The Autumn Sun from the Group 2-producing mare, Dawned. He presented as an exceptional athlete and with Chris Anderson set to train him, he’s undoubtedly poised for success.
Trained by Chris Anderson, Eagle Farm.
Duncan and entrusted DGR trainer Chris Anderson joined forces at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale to secure an impeccably bred colt by The Autumn Sun, from the Group-producing One Cool Cat mare, Dawned (NZ).
Purchased for $200,000 from one of Australia’s most successful nurseries in Arrowfield Stud, this colt was incredible value in a booming market.
Crowned Champion 3YO Colt in Australia, The Autumn Sun won five Group 1 races during his two and three-year-old seasons. His oldest crop are just two and are very much in the make and shape of their highly-rated sire.
Bred for success, this colt is from a Group-producing One Cool Cat mare. A winner over 1200 metres herself, she is the dam of G2 ATC Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) winner Dawn Dawn, plus sprint winners Kooled and Enjoy Elsie.
This is a family that Duncan knows well, having purchased G2 AJC Emancipation winner and G1 Coolmore Classic runner-up Beat The Fade who is a half-sister to this colt’s dam.
G3 Rough Habit Plate and Listed Doomben Mile winner/$740,000 earner Ballistic Boy and multiple Stakes placegetter/$476,000 earner Profit are just two of the horses in the mix of many talents that Chris has trained for DGR.
Arrowfield Stud’s first-season sire The Autumn Sun (Redoute’s Choice) sired his first stakes winner when the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Autumn Ballet (2 f ex Grisi by Street Cry) yesterday became the first horse in history to win the Black Opal Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) on debut.
The filly showed glimpses of her talent when winning a 900-metre trial at Rosehill on February 27 and yesterday she was able to shrug off some more experienced rivals, when scooting clear inside the final stages to beat her stablemate The Years (Time Test) by just over two lengths. Make A Call (Extreme Choice) was a further length and a quarter away in third.
Bred by Arrowfield (like this colt), the filly was sold by the operation to her trainers and Bruce Slade’s Kestrel Thoroughbreds for $340,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. One of six starters for The Autumn Sun, Autumn Ballet becomes the stallion’s second winner. The Autumn Sun stood for a fee of $66,000 in 2022 (Source: ANZ Bloodstock News).
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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
“As a purchaser/owner of an The Autumn Sun 2yo colt and an industry observer, we have inside knowledge that he is going to be a sire more sought after in years to come. To acquire a colt at this level in his “softer priced” second crop, with a type and pedigree such as his, we feel we are ahead of the curve. We also know the family well, having purchased Gr.1/Gr.2 performer Beat The Fade (by Maroof). ”