On a day when Russian Revolution sired his highest priced ever yearling at Inglis Easter, he also produced an impressive debut winner at Hawkesbury in Czar.
Trained by Peter and Pal Snowden, two year-old colt Czar was easy in the market and despite bungling the start was able to charge home and win the 1000m maiden by three-quarters of a length.
Czar was a $300,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the draft of Highgrove Stud for China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstockand runs for a big syndicate of investors that includes his breeder.
We often talk about colts with a stallion’s pedigree and Czar has one!
He is the first foal of Museo (GB), a half-sister by Teofilo to the dam of dual Group I winner Victor Ludorum (GB), who has just been announced as a shuttling to Darley Australia this spring.
Museo is even more importantly a grand-daughter of Group I Irish Oaks winner Helen Street, dam of champion sire Street Cry and grand-dam of another champion sire in Shamardal.
Ron Gilbert’s Highgrove Stud bred and sold Czar and they’ve had luck with this female family before having also bred and sold Group II winner Thronum (Snitzel) and this season’s 2YO Cythera (I Am Invincible), who are from Helena’s Secret (GB), another grand-daughter of Helen Street.
Czar is the seventh winner for Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution, who is the leading Australian first season sire by earnings and hit the mark in the sale ring at Inglis Easter on Tuesday with a stunning filly from Abscondselling for $850,000.
Consigned by Sledmere Stud, the well related filly was bought by Dermot Farrington Bloodstock Pty Ltd.
She is a half-sister to Group I winner Invincibella, Group III winner Secret Blaze and stakes-winner Extreme Flight being the seventh foal of unraced Galileo blue hen Abscond.
Bred by Andrew Grant-Taylor, the filly has tremendous residual value as her half-sister Invincibella was sold for $1.3million to Tom Magnier at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in 2020 and is getting every chance at Coolmore.
“This is a lovely filly. You won’t find them any better looking than that. And there’s a lot of black on the page, so she’s the type where even if they didn’t race, you could bring her into an elite broodmare band,” Farrington told ANZ Bloodstock News.
