A MID-North coast win by Enigami was very timely for the Australian Thoroughbred Breeders Club members who attended its May Hawkesbury stable excursion recently.
About 20 of us landed on a Sunday morning at the stable of Tara and Phillippe Vigouroux which is located on the back-straight of the Clarendon located racecourse.
Successfully training at Hawkesbury for the past 17 years, Phillippe Vigouroux was proud to show us consistent five-year-old mare Enigami, who won a Class Three race the following day at Taree.
Bred by local longtime breeder Daile Casson, Enigami is by short-lived sire Enemy Of Average, a stakes-winning Fusaichi Pegasus half brother to champion Australian sire Exceed And Excel.
Enigami, who was bought privately for about $1500 12 months ago, has now won four races and about $60,000 for the stable.
The Vigouroux stable complex has a number of exterior yards to cater for horses who prefer the outdoors, and with easy access to the Hawkesbury track and its facilities.
We visited Platinum Park located right next door – a larger complex managed and operated by Jess and husband Blake Ryan, son of well-known Gerald Ryan a leading Rosehill conditioner. Its new modern facilities included a horse walker and a 20-metre swimming pool.
With a 4.30am start, Blake described the complex catering up to 40 horses that are either in full training or pre-training, which complements his father’s 85 stables at Rosehill.
The horses we inspected were juvenile colts Star Of Monsoon, by Lonhro from Monsoon Wedding and Sahara Emaar, by Snitzel from Lady Of The Desert, and three-year-old Fastnet Rock filly Cartier Rock, who was bound for the Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale.
Having a second placing at the Gold Coast following our stable visit, Cartier Rock then went to the Magic Millions broodmare sale to be sold. A Sydney winner and a full-sister to this season’s dual juvenile stakes winner Missrock, Cartier Rock fetched a massive $440,000, being knocked down to Emirates Park.
Another close relation to Cartier Rock sold at the recent Magic Millions National Sale, in its yearling division.
By Arrowfield Stud’s high profile sire Snitzel, a yearling filly being a half-sister to Cartier Rock and Missrock fetched $220,000 – the second top price at the Gold Coast National Yearling Sale.
Sold via Cressfield, Scone, the yearling filly was knocked down to Basil Nolan, principal of Raheen Stud, Gladfield, in south-east Queensland.
The first yearlings by Vinery Stud’s All Too Hard were again in demand with a half-brother to Sydney Group 2 winner Riva de Lago selling for $200,000.
The yearling sale top seller was at $240,000, for a chestnut colt by deceased Street Cry, the second foal of Catbird stakes winner Jersey Lily, sold by Baramul Stud, Widden Valley.
The yearling average for Book 1 was $48,000 for the 336 sold lots.
Hawkesbury colts ready to race
COLTS Star Of Monsoon and Sahara Emaar, whom the ATBC inspected at Platinum Park, Hawkesbury, should be making their race appearances shortly.
By Lonhro, Star Of Monsoon is from stakes-placed Danehill mare Monsoon Wedding, a three-quarter-sister to champion sire Redoute’s Choice.
Monsoon Wedding is also the dam of two stakes winners and two stakes placegetters.
Sahara Emaar was produced from Lady Of The Desert, a dual Melbourne stakes winner by Irish bred sire Desert Prince.
Fastnet Rock half brother reaches $400,000
A HALF brother by Fastnet Rock, to $3.2m track earner Whobegotyou topped the Magic Millions weanling division of the Gold Coast sale at $400,000, this colt selling from Tim and Celie Nolan’s Murrulla, at Wingen.
At the end of two days of weanling selling, the gross resulted over $17m, up over $2.2m on last year’s record breaking auction. With an 86 per cent clearance rate, the book one weanling average was $60,138.